Need help finding individuals on census records

Startet af Claude Anders Hanson, 11 Nov 2016 - 14:19

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Claude Anders Hanson

http://www.danishfamilysearch.com/cid1744719

The record here is from the 1801 census for Jorgan  Hansen (Lintrup) and his wife Karen Pedersdatter.  The last two individuals are Anna Kierstina Pedersdatter (the wife's sister) a widow, and her daughter Maren Madsdatter, age 10.  I cannot find Jorgan Hansen (Lintrup) on the 1887 census.  I know Karen Pedersdatter is the daughter of Peder Thompsen and Karen Pedersdatter and she was born 20 July 1755 in Farup, Ribe County....but I can't find a sister born to the same couple a few years apart.  I think there must be ways to filter names in the census data that I don't understand.  Thanks for any suggestions you might give me.  Claude

Ralph Rasmussen

From the ages of their children Jørgen may have married as late as 1791-1792.  I searched with Dansk Demografisk Database using "Jø% Hans" and found an unmarried Jørgen Hansen of about the right age in Gesten parish.  Karen would have been married in the parish she was in at the time of her marriage.

I don't seem to find the marriage either in Gesten or Farup in that 4-5 year period.







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Ralph Rasmussen
<1850 Hammer herred, Præstø

Claude Anders Hanson

I know Jorgen Hansen and Karen Pedersdatter were married 1 Sept. 1780 in Farup, Ribe.  Seems reasonable they would be on the 1787 census.  Their first child, Peder Thompsen Jorgensen was born 8 Oct 1780.  Seven of their eight children were born in Farup, Ribe.  Only child #4, Johanne Jorgensen was born in Horne Parish, 1784.  Claude