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Here we have the Andrew Rongley family. A reader tells us that Andrew Rongley was his great-uncle. Rongley immigrated from Norway in 1866 at the very beginning of the great wave of European emigration. He was only 3 years old at the time so he was surely brought to America by his parents. We know that in 1920 he lived in Le Roy, Lake County, South Dakota. We assume he was a farmer. His wife who was 10 years younger was also born in Norway was named Bertha. His children were Herbert (1905), Clarence (1907), John (1909), Dina (1911), and May (1915). (The birth years are estimated here frim the ages given in the 1920 Census. Here we see the Rongley family about 1915. The three boys wear identical white blouses, floppy bows, and knickers. Their younger suster wears her hair done in braids with hairbows and a white dress.
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