Sören CHRISTENSEN Kristina Marie SORENSEN Mini tree diagram

Ana Nielsen PETERSEN2,1

23rd Nov 18561 - 19451

Life History

23rd Nov 1856

Born in Ugilt, Nordjylland, Denmark.1

25th Apr 1869

Birth of daughter Kristina Marie SORENSEN in Sennels, Viborg, Denmark.4,3,2,5

20th Oct 1926

Death of Sören CHRISTENSEN in Ugilt, Nordjylland, Denmark;  spouse Ana Nielsen, Birth 23 Nov, 1856 in Ugilt, Nordjylland, Denmark.1

18th Oct 1937

Death of daughter Kristina Marie SORENSEN in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa.3

1945

Died in Ugilt, Nordjylland, Denmark.1

Other facts

 

Married Sören CHRISTENSEN in Denmark.2

Notes

  • 1925 Iowa State Census, Pottawattamie County, Council Bluffs Ward 5,page 403,  919 6th Avenue
    Wilson, Soren Head M W 59 Owns Free $6000 value 43 yrs in US, 43 yrsin Iowa  naturalized 8th grade edu b Denmark;  Father Wilson Peter bDenmark [no age, deceased], mother Myrtue Mette K b Denmark [no age,deceased] married Denmark
    Wilson, Christiana Wife F W 55 35 yrs in US, 35 yrs in Iowanaturalized 8th grade b Denmark;  Father Christanson [sic] Soren bDenmark [no age, deceased], mother Petersen Anna b Denmark [no age,deceased], married Denmark

    Note that this census reports that Kristina (Christiana)'s parents aredeceased, while a Christensen family genealogy reports (with nodocumentation provided) that they died later, her father Soren in 1926and her mother Ana in 1945.  The enumerator put no age, which was theway it was noted that a person was deceased.  Perhaps this was anenumerator error, because the age was not reported?

    Also the census reports that Kristina's mother's surname is Petersenwhile the family genealogy reports it as Nielson.  The "surname"patten in Scandinavia was to take the father's name and add son/sen(or in some tribes/nations is could also be daughter).  The censusreport should mean, then, that her father's name was Peter, while thegenealogy would indicate that her father's name was Niel.  However, amarried woman sometimes would go by her husband's name, and it couldmean that Ana had been previously married to a man named Peter orPetersen.

Sources

  • 1. Ancestry Trees
    • Christensen,
  • 2. 1925 Iowa State Census, Pottawattamie County
    • Council Bluffs Ward 5, page 403, 919 6th Avenue
  • 3. Ancestry Trees
    • Alan Kent Boucher,
  • 4. 1930 Federal Census, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
    • 8 April, Council Bluffs, District 28, page 8A, 907 6th Ave, Hse #169,
  • 5. 1910 Federal Census, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
    • 18 April, Council Bluffs Ward 4, District 140, page 5B, 1701 So 9th

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