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From: "Frede Haahr Nielsen" <>
Subject: Re: [DK] Sonderbørg Census ca 1880
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:26:02 +0100
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Frederik Hansen wrote among others

> My problem is this. A friend in Denmark has found for me in a Sønderborg
> museum a photo of a ship and its accompanying muster bill dated from
> 1877-1881 which shows that the crew included a ship's carpenter with the
> same name as my great grandfather, Hans Christian Hansen, from Sønderborg.
> The muster bill indicates the voyage went to China. Family legend says all
> this fits my great grandfather, who emigrated from Sønderborg to the US in
> 1882 after having been a ship's carpenter and after having made several
> voyages to China. I am trying to be certain that the muster bill names my
> great grandfather, and not some other man with the same name. I was hoping
> that we could find that shortly before the voyage we could identify my great
> grandfather in a census and that he was the only seafarer living in
> Sønderborg at the time, and maybe the only ship's carpenter, named as he
> was. Or saying the same thing another way: There was only one Hans
> Christian Hansen in Sønderborg in a census taken shortly before the voyage
> started.

I have corresponded the local archive in Sønderborg. They have no censuses after 1855. There is a small chance of help if you know
names and maybe ages of Hans Christian Hansen's parents.

regards

Frede Haahr Nielsen

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