Confirmation Record – Peder Jensen

Oh, these Jensen’s! I have a few additional records for them, and then, I hit a brick wall. So, I’ll post what I have so far and then may have to focus my efforts elsewhere for a while.

I have found Peder Jensen’s (b. 1839) Confirmation record in the Nylarsker parish, Bornholm, Denmark:

Source: Danish State Archives, “Kirkebøger,” digital images, Statens Arkivers Arkivalieronline (www.sa.dk/ao/ : downloaded 4 June 2011), Peder Jensen, Confirmation Record, 1855, p 46, no 11; Bornholm Amt, Bornholm Vester Herred, Nylarsker Sogn 1847-1857.

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Interesting:

• From his christening record I found his parents names – Christen and Kristine. 
• The physician administering his vaccine doesn’t match what I have from his marriage record. Here it states “Grove” but his marriage record says “Zahrtmann”. Most of the other confirmants on this page were vaccinated by Zahrtmann…I wonder if this is the time period when the physician changed and the priest may have made an error. Then again, Peder’s entry is out of order so perhaps “Grove” was the correct doctor.

Posted by jullianalund@gmail.com on 30 May 2012 | Posted in Confirmation Record, Denmark, Jensen | Comment

Using Timelines

In my decendency research of the Lund family, I am currently focusing on Didrich and Karen’s oldest daughter, Christine, and her family. I have collected a lot of documents and know a lot more now than I did before. But, I still have a few questions I need to answer before I can keep going.

• What do I know so far?
• Where are there holes in the timeline?
• Are there records available to fill in the holes?
• Where can I go from here?

I think that making a timeline will help me answer these questions. So, using my Roots Magic software, I selected Peder Jensen and his wife Christine Funk Lund and their children to create a timeline report and saved it as a word document. This document includes the citations, so I can refer to them as needed.


Below I’ve added my timeline so far. I’ve also added ideas for further research.

• Christine’s LDS baptism/confirmation — I have four different dates for Christine’s baptism. I need to see if I can find her in the Bornholm Branch records. Also, I’ll need to take a look at what Family Search has. It would not be surprising to find that she was baptized while alive and then had the work done for her as well.
• All the “blue” facts come from the FamilySearch Family Group Record sheet for Didrich, Christine’s father.
• 1888 is the last time I have real, verified information for the Jensen family.

Where can I go from here?
Besides looking up the records listed above in purple, I have some other ideas.

1. 1890 Danish Census – Where are the Jensen’s? Are they still in Denmark or have they immigrated?
2. Nylarsker Parish records – I will continue my search for future years to see if I can find death records for Peder and Christine as well as possible marriage records for their two sons.
3. I know from Jacob Peter’s christening record that he immigrated to America … perhaps I could find a passenger list for him? Or, maybe find him in a US Census.

Endnotes:

Posted by jullianalund@gmail.com on 7 April 2012 | Posted in Jensen, Researching | Comment

A Surprise Discovery…

So, I had been pouring through the Nylarsker Parish church records looking for any possible children for Peder and Christine Jensen that may have been missed in the censuses. In the process, I did find a daughter, Sanna, who was born and died between censuses. So, I decided to keep going to see if I missed anything else. What I found was a surprise —

Source: Danish State Archives, “Kirkebøger,” digital images, Statens Arkivers Arkivalieronline (www.sa.dk/ao/ : downloaded 31 March 2012), Annine Margrethe Kristine Jensen death record; Nylarsker Parish, p 468, 1888, no 3.

A death record for Peder and Christine’s oldest child, Annine Margrithe Kristine Jensen. When I saw her name, it actually made me sad – she was so young, only 22 years old.

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It was actually quite surprising to me that I had such a negative response to finding this record. I didn’t feel the “yeah, I found her” feeling, but rather a “no, not yet.” I think that is an interesting side effect of studying family history. These people become your people and you feel connected to them. This young woman, my Annine, died at just 22 years old from a chest disease (TB? Pneumonia?) which according to the priest’s notes had her in bed for 10 months. How difficult for her parents. They had lost a young 5 year old daughter and now another daughter. But even more than looking at this through her parent’s perspective, I thought of all that she missed. I had hoped she had immigrated to Utah, married, had children. All the “what might have been’s” are no longer possible.

From a purely research side, there is some good to come from this record. The priest noted there was a probate certificate. (This was also the case for her sister Sanna) I will definately be looking these up next time I’m at the Family History Library.

Posted by jullianalund@gmail.com on 6 April 2012 | Posted in Death Record, Jensen | Comment

finding Sanne Caroline Dorthea Jensen

Having found the Jensen family in the 1880 Danish Census and noting a 10 year gap between children, I thought I might look for any other children Peder and Christine may have had. I knew there were 3 options.

1. Christine had one or more miscarriages. These would most likely not be recorded in the church records as births or deaths…unless the baby was near full term and considered a stillborn. I still don’t think they could christen the child but perhaps there may be a burial record.
2. There was one or more children born in that time and they may have lived for a while but died before the 1880 census. In this case I should expect to find a christening and a burial record.
3. There were no other children, and therefore no records to be found. This may however be like #1, in that there are no records.

So, the Jensen’s did have another daughter, Sanne (Danish version of Suzanne, sometimes spelled Sanna). Interestingly, she had a probate certificate. I was able to find the catalog record at the Family History Library, so the next time I go I will be sure to look this up! According to her burial record she was 5 years old. This gives me a rough idea of when she was born, so back I went into church records – this time looking for a christening. I started right after the last child’s christening and moved forward, here’s what I found —

Source: Danish State Archives, “Kirkebøger,” digital images, Statens Arkivers Arkivalieronline (www.sa.dk/ao/ : downloaded 7 November 2011), Sanna Jensen christening record, to be moved to 1873; Nylarsker Parish, p 81, 1873, no 4.


This really confused me, a page with some christening records with no baby names or christening dates. I couldn’t tell what the note said at the end of the entry, so I had to get some help.


Transcription / Translation:
4.

d. 6d Februar 1873
6 February 1873

Fisker Peder Jensen i Arnager
og Hustru Claudine Christina
Funch, 32 Aar gl
Fisherman Peder Jensen of Arnager
and wife Claudine Christina
Funch, 32 years old

Overført i Kirkebogen for 1873
moved to church book for 1873 


Apparently the priest made notes for the first few births of 1873 in the wrong book, so he then moved them over later. So, I went to the next set of records and found her —

• The priest went back and marked her record “død” or “dead.”
• I love that one of the witnesses, Johannes Peter Hansen, worked on a wind mill farm.

Posted by jullianalund@gmail.com on 5 April 2012 | Posted in Christening Record, Death Record, Jensen | Comment