Born in Norway, she was the sister of Yngmar, a shipbroker and Dundee’s Vice-Consul for Norway, Sweden and Portugal. She is first listed in the 1889 Street Directory at 21 Tay St, the following year at 75 Nethergate; then the 1891census records her as living with her brother (age 54) at13 Magdalen Yard Road, a singing teacher, unmarried, age 37. They both lived at 3 Tay St in 1903-4; after that there is no mention of them.  The British  Association report of 1912 says: “Among other musicians, no longer with us but who have left their mark on our musical life, are ….”  So she (age 58) had left or was dead by then.

One of the visitors to our website found the following information on Dutch Wikipedia and kindly translated it for us.

Dutch Wikipedia, Ingeborg Pettersen – translated to English:

Ingeborg Pettersen (born 18 December 1851, died 22 August 1918) was a Norwegian singer.

She was the last child born into the family of the bailiff and later politician Georg Pettersen (of German/Danish descent) and Thora Resch.

She received her musical education with Mathilde Andersen and at the Imperial Sing-Akademie in Berlin with Professor Schulze. Her first performances took place in 1877. One of these concerts was dedicated to her mentor Fritz Arlberg. She sang arias from operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. That concert was quickly followed by a concert given on behalf of the composer Olse Olsen. She then sang an aria from Alessandro Stradella by Friedrich von Flotow. She then started giving singing lessons at the same time. In the years that followed, 1886 and 1887, she performed a number of times with the Norwegian pianist Agathe Backer-Grøndahl. Her last known concert took place in May 1887 with songs by, among others, Halfdan Kjerulf and Edvard Grieg. She was friends with a number of composers at the time and also had a number of their manuscripts in her possession. Concerts followed in Copenhagen under Niels Gade and in Germany under the direction of Joseph Joachim.

Pettersen then went to England, Scotland (Dundee Society of Musicians) and the USA, where the emphasis shifted to teaching and occasional concerts. She changed her name to Ingeborg Resch Pettersen. Her last concert in the USA took place in San José, California, after which she returned to Norway.