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From: Børge Fogsgaard <>
Subject: RE: [DK] last names
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:03:28 +0100
In-Reply-To: <001e01c5e09e$02441cc0$644266a6@sueschon>


I believe it was an error on the part of the census taker or the one who
transcribed the records. Nothing (apart from these few records) indicates
that there was a wish to harmonize different patronyms in a family. It is
however understandable that she was called Olsen in 1880 and 1890 as the
authorities made a great effort to "Europeanize" the naming practise in
those years.
Børge

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Schon [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:43 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [DK] last names
>
> Thanks Rock -- you've just given me a reasonable explanation why my
> 3rd
> great-grandmother Johanne Andreasdatter Højer had the "wrong" name in
> the
> 1845 census for Bidstrup, Birkerød, Lynge-Kronborg, Frederiksborg. I
> thought
> it was an error on the part of the census taker. In later years, she
> married
> a second time to Jens Olsen.
>
> 1834 -- Johanne Andreasdatter
> 1840 -- Johanne Andreasdatter
> 1845 -- Johanne Frederiksdatter (same name as her kids)
> 1880 -- Johanne Olsen
> 1890 -- Johanne Højer Olsen
>
> FT-1845
> Name, Age, Marital status, Position in household, Occupation , Birth
> place
> Frederik Mogensen, 42, Gift, , Smede, Her i Sognet
> Johanne Frederiksdatter, 35, Gift, , hans Kone, Her i Sognet
> Sophie Frederiksdatter, 14, Ugift, , deres Børn, Her i Sognet
> Stine Frederiksdatter, 10, Ugift, , deres Børn, Her i Sognet
> Peder Frederiksen, 6, Ugift, , deres Børn, Her i Sognet
> Kirstine Frederiksdatter, 3, Ugift, , deres Børn, Her i Sognet
>
> Sue
>
> Rock 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.)
>
>
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