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This blog will be dedicated to the collection and dispersment of information relating to the geneology of the Jay L and Afton May Nelson Family. All contributors are welcome. Our mission is to find and publish accurate information relating to our ancestory. We hope that we can collect here pictures, records of births, deaths, marriages, and confirmations, as well as other verifiable evidence of our forebearers.


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R. Scott and Matthew R. Nelson
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Maren Jensdatter, wife of Peder Sorensen

Birth, Viskum parish register, page 36. Maren born to Jens Jensen and Marie Kirsten Christensdatter on 8 Sondag efter Trinit or August 10, 1794. She was born in Lille Torsager which is how we made the connection. Maren's death record in Elsborg lists her birthplace as Lille Torsager. Scott and I knew she was born around 1794 due to her age subtracted from the census years.
1801 Viskum census, page 8. Marie Kirstin Christensdatter, age 30, is living in her brothers home. She is unmarried likely meaning that the father of Maren and her never married. Maren is 7 and is listed as Marie Kirstin's illegitimate daughter. Her brother's name is Jens Christensen, age 34. Jens is married to Anne Dorthe Christensdatter, age 30. They have two children Marie Dorthe Jensdatter and Maren Jensdatter, ages 3 and 2, respectively. Jens's mother Maren Pedersdatter, a widow, age 70 is living with them. I have yet to find Maren Jensdatter's confirmation record, but the next we learn of her, she is in Lysgaard getting married to Peder Sorensen in 1830.

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