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From: Rockne Johnson <>
Subject: RE: [DK] last names
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:06:17 -0700
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Correction: great-great-grandfather was Christen Clausen, son of Claus
Børgesen and grandson of Børge Jacobsen.

Rock

At 09:40 AM 11/3/2005, Rockne Johnson wrote:
>The "logic" could be that the people living in the same family should all
>have the same last name.
>I had a difficult time finding my widowed great-great-grandmother Gjertrud
>Andersdatter in the Troense censuses around 1840 until I stopped looking
>for "Andersdatter" and started looking for "Gjertrud". I found her listed
>as Gjertrud Christensdatter. She had been assigned the same patronym as
>her children. (Her deceased husband, my great-great-grandfather, was
>Christen Børgesen.)
>
>Rock
>
>At 09:21 AM 11/3/2005, Børge Fogsgaard wrote:
>>I have translated and commented the entry you made in the Danish connection.
>>In the late 19th century a child would get his mother's surname in case it
>>was born out of wedlock.
>>Børge
>
>
>
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