Henrik Ibsen's mother Marichen was also from a mining family from Kongsberg.

Henrik Ibsen's grave at Vår Frelsers cemetery in Oslo. The miner's hammer on the tombstone is associated with the poem The Miner.

The main character in the play of the same name, John Gabriel Borkman, says that he is from a family of miners. In one of his most famous criticisms, Ibsen wrote that the "symbolic Basic Idea" should "wind itself secretly through the Work, like the Silver Mine in the Mountain". All these references to mines, miners and silver are not accidental, for Ibsen's mother Marichen was from a family of miners from Kongsberg on both her father's and mother's sides.

She could not only trace her second first name Cornelia back 7 generations to Cornelius Trinepol. Her first first name, Marichen, was from her grandmother Marichen Barth, and the surname Barth can be traced back four generations from her grandmother to the first Barth in Norway, the chief mountaineer at Kongsberg Daniel Barth (1607-1656).

Her grandmother Christine Olsdatter's family was also connected to the master blacksmiths in Kongsberg and her cousin Ole Henckel rose as high as it was possible to reach in Kongsberg. He became assessor at the Overbergamtet, co-director and later director of the Silver Works. He was also from 1796 to 1812 co-owner of Åmdalsverk in Skafså. He died in 1824, the same year as Henrik Ibsen's grandfather Johan Andreas Altenburg.