Ryg, Elling Nielsen ²⁴⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Deed: fra broen Borger Nielsen Grov, 1711 på, Rygg, bnr. 3, Moritsgarden, Gloppen prestegjeld, Sogn og Fjordane, N.

Elling married Ellen Pedersdtr. Hope, daughter of Peder Olsen Hope and Sylvia Andersdatter, on 26 Dec 1699 in Gloppen prestegjeld, Sogn og Fjordane, N. (Ellen Pedersdtr. Hope was born in 1663 in Hope, bnr. 3, Knutbruket, Hyen, Gloppen prestegjeld, Sogn og Fjordane, N. ²⁴⁹ and died in 1716 in Rygg, bnr. 3, Moritsgarden, Gloppen prestegjeld, Sogn og Fjordane, N. ²⁴⁹.)

Elling next married Gunhild Simensdatter Hegdal, daughter of Simon Jacobsen Hegdal and Brite Olsdatter, about 1717. (Gunhild Simensdatter Hegdal died in 1757 in Rygg, bnr. 3, Moritsgarden, Gloppen prestegjeld, Sogn og Fjordane, N..)