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Subject: Re: [DK] patronymic Jessen !as patronymic and surname!)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 00:13:30 EDT
Greetings:
I can assure you all that there really are people named Jessen as I have
proudly carried the Jessen name for the past 78 years. My family surname
originated in Denmark,
near Felsted, in Sønderjylland. I assume it began as a patronymic name -
the son of Jes. However, for my family, it has been a surname/family name
continuously since 1700 until the present time in Denmark. Norman
Jessen
PS: When I opened up and saw the name JESSEN as the subject matter of 16
messages, what a relief to discover I wasn't in some kind of deep trouble ! :-)
Norman Jessen
Well yes -- Jessen is very much a sea and land hero name -- obviously in
the Jessen Danish blood.
----- funny thing really -- heroes seems to repeat generation after
generation -- !
The Jessen name seems to crop up, again and again - in aristocracy etc --
like Jessen Raben etc.
like the Danish Admiral Carl Wilhelm Jessen ---- 1764 - 1823 --
http://www.navalhistory.dk/Danish/Officererne/IJ/Jessen_CW.htm
who on his old age became the Governor of the former Danish West Indies.
Here is his memorial on St Thomas --
http://www.navalhistory.dk/Danish/Mindesmaerker/Jessen_DWI.htm
Or the war of 1848 - 1850 war hero Colonel Tycho Jessen --- whom the Jessen
battery (artillery) was named.
http://chakoten.dk/sys_1834_info.html (his grandson became well known
painter Tycho Jessen)
Cai ~
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rockne Johnson" <>
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Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [DK] patronymic Jessen !as patronymic and surname!)
> Not only that but a US Coast helicopter pilot named Jessen appears from
> time to time on the US televison Weather Channel in an episode of their
> "Storm Stories" where he plucks some fishermen from the ocean one wild
> night off the mouth of the Columbia River. I met that Lieutenant Jessen
> while he was stationed at Barber's Point on Oahu in Hawaii when I answered
> a trouble call from them!
>
> It seemed that they only had cold water in the showers. Rather than let
> those heroes take cold showers I made the long drive from Honolulu, found
> the problem, and instructed a female pipefitter petty officer in the
> solution. I asked Lieutenant Jessen about his name (I had not yet seen
> the Storm Stories episode or I would have asked him about that) and he
> confirmed that the name was Danish.
>
> I billed them for the hours that it took but the Coast Guard never paid.
>
> Rock
>
> At 03:45 PM 5/4/2006, Cai wrote:
>>Well Jessen is/was a famous name in Denmark -- nobility, war heroes,
>>authors and much more -- the below links just a few of many!
>>As a patronymic name it came from the first name 'Jes' (sometimes seen
>>spelled as Jess) -- but it must be noted that the name also was an
>>inherited family/surname -- a rather famous surname ---- and back in 1710
>>the change from patronymic names to surnames had not
>>yet happened -- so one must assume that your Jessen was a family name
>
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