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There are birth records in Minnesota. For the children born here. Maybe you aren't descended from one of these and you don't care to pursue these records:
http://people.mnhs.org/bci/search.cfm
Mortensen, Marius Engebrite
Date of Birth: 06 Jul 1900
Mother Maiden Name: Gjerdrum
certid# 1900-38883
County of Birth: St. Louis
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Mortensen, Ragna Camille
Date of Birth: 09 Dec 1903
Mother Maiden Name: Gjardrum
certid# DC-64818
County of Birth: St. Louis
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Mortensen, Valdemore Christopher
Date of Birth: 16 Jan 1907
Mother Maiden Name: Gjardrum
certid# 1907-42415
County of Birth: St. Louis
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Each birth record is $9, as shown on the website.
If you are interested in one or all of them, let me know.
As far as the Bergen information, most of it is online now, and I can help you with that.
I searched in the Bergen information and did find the same information, but the census records from Minnesota show from information he must have given them himself this:
1900 Minnesota, St. Louis County, Duluth City Ward 1, ED#257, Page 129A, 6/12/1900: 4411 London Road
Christ Mortenton, 26yo, 6/1873, M/1yr, Norway, Imm.1886/14yrs in US/Pa, Day Laborer
Randina, wife, 36yo, 12/1863, M/1yr, 0 children/0 living, Norway, Imm.1883/17yrs in US
it shows that he is born or baptised June 1873, he's been married one year - so married in 1899, and that he immigrated in 1886 - he's been in the USA 14 years, it seems to indicate the state of Pennsylvania, he works as a day laborer.
1905 Minnesota State Census, St. Louis County, Duluth Ward 8, ED#27, Sheet 13, 6/3/1905:
Christopher Martinson*, 32yo, Norway, 13yrs in State, 2yrs in enumeration district, Cook
Ridine, 42yo, Norway, 27yrs in State, 2yrs in ED#
Marius, 4yo, MN Nor Nor, 2yrs in ED#
The 1905 census shows that he as been in the State of Minnesota for 13 years, so if he emigrated in 1886 to Pennsylvania, he was probably there or somewhere, from 1886 to 1892.
If there is an error somewhere, and 13 years in the state means he emigrated 13 years earlier, then he emigrated from Norway in about 1892.
And of course that supports the information from the Norwegians that you received.
If I believe the Bergen theory, here is the emigration of Antonette Katinka Mortensen in 1892.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=7&filnamn=EMIBERG&gardpostnr=31753&merk=31753#ovre
31753 Bergen 2274 1892 Sept. 8 Antonette Katinke Mortensen f ug Uhrmagersdtr 1877 15 Bergen Bergen Thingvalla
Leaving Bergen Sept 8, 1892, Antonette Katinke Mortensen, female, unmarried, watchmaker's daughter, b. 1877 age 15, born in Bergen, living in Bergen, on the ship Thingvalla.
The importance of Antonette Katinke Mortensen would be to find her on the census of 1900 somewhere in St. Louis County, to support that the brother is in that area too, or to find her entrance into the USA which could more likely be through Quebec, since a lot of immigrants that came to Minnesota came through Canada. And that record might say she is going to her brother named ??? who lives in ????. Then there would be another piece of evidence for the Bergen theory.
Maybe Sherrie has the ancestry.com subscription that could find Antonette Katinke Mortensen coming into a port of entry in 1892 - Sept. or so.
The supposed match for your Christopher Mortensen, emigration from Bergen:
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=14&filnamn=EMIBERG&gardpostnr=31290&merk=31290#ovre
He is emigrating at the same time with someone else from Bergen, also called a strandsidder - I'm not quite sure what a strandsidder is, but I know they lived down by the sea - the strand (beach) and do some work there. It doesn't indicate a family relationship.
31290 Bergen 1810 1892 Juni 6 Mathias Kristofer Mortensen m ug Strandsidder 1872 20 Bergen Bergen
Leaving June 6, 1892, Mathias Kristofer Mortensen, male, unmarried, works as a strandsidder , b. 1872, age 20, Bergen by birth, Bergen for residence.
31289 Bergen 1809 1892 Juni 6 Johan Ingebriktsen Hougland m E Strandsidder 1823 69 Bergen Aurland
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