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Ingeborg's mother
Johanne Hagen probably never used the family name Refling. She wrote that she was not told who her father was till her mother was dying:
"The vicar Jacob Kielland gave her the sacrament and received the confession. But we both agreed not changing the parish registry, since Refling never married and had no other children, so the risk of marriage between close relatives did not arise."
The same letter
also says that Mr. Refling
"returned and tried to reconcile himself with my mother, even when I was about five or six years old. He asked if I could use his family name but she rejected him. Later she felt sorry about this, and wished that one of the grandchildren would use the name."
Maybe has grandmother Johanne also spoken to little Ingeborg about this subject?
According to Johanne's letter, Ingeborg was grandmother's "favourite" grandchild. This might explain why Ingeborg was the only one to choose using the "Refling" family name.
More on Johanne Hagen: read Ingeborg's description of her mother on the page letters from prison.
