Marianne Christensen: Younger sister of Anders Christensen Jenson

Death, Horby parish register, page 246.  Marianne Christensen passes away on June 15, 1842 and is buried June 19, 1842.  She was the daughter to Christen Jensen of Mosenhuus.  She was 2 1/2 years old.  Her birth document has been recorded under Christen Jensen's family post.

Jens Christensen (Ander's older brother) came across on the Kenilworth too!!!!

In our family history Ander's paid for five other family members to come over to the United States and in Nicolena's history she reports it was one of her uncles.  As I looked at the passenger log for the Kennilworth I noticed that Jen's Christensen also was on board and came with his family of three children making a total of five---meeting the description of the group that Ander's paid for.  It was said that Ander's was never repaid and I'm thinking that's because Jens died in Wyoming, Nebraska along with a daughter after they ate some poisonous berries. Jens was Anders older brother.  Marinus is felt to be an illegitate child of one of the daughters and eventually settled in Arizona (see the Jens Christensen post in October 2012).  His birth record has never been found but it would have been around 1864.

The information from the passenger list is as follows (source: SMR, p.13; Vensyssel Conference):

Jens Christensen
Age 47
Graverhus, Denmark

Karen Marie Christensen
Age 49
Bremsholt, Denmark

Maren Katrine Christensen
Age 20
Bromsholt, Denmark

Christine Christensen
Age 18
Ulslev, Denmark

Marinus Christensen
Age 2
Wraa, Denmark

Anders Christian Christensen (Jenson) grave site

 Brigham City Cemetery, August 2012.  On our way to North Dakota we stopped at the Brigham City Cemetery and got a picture at the grave of Anders Christian Christensen (Jenson).  He took his father's last name and anglicized it with an "on."  Pictured are myself, Blake (behind the tombstone), Tyler (with the scooby doo t-shirt) and Andy (army shorts).  Nicolena and Mariane are not listed on the headstone with their parents as they were buried with their husbands.  The dates on the tombstone are not all correct (see prior post for correct dates).    
 

 The names of the parents are listed:  Anders C. with the incorrect birthdate (correct: October 12, 1836).  Kirsten Marie is also anglicized to Christina M..

 Anders C. would have been their first child born in the United States and the fifth documented in the family.
 

 Rosena was the eighth and last child born to Nicolena (father Carl Gustaf Engstrom) and lived two years.

 Matilda was the 7th child and only lived two years (father Carl Gustaf Engstrom) .

 Hannah was born in Denmark and was buried in the Torslev parish in Hjorring county.  She lived only three years and her birth name was Ane Johannes Christensen.  She was the third child born to the Jensons.  

 In between the pillars is a name I can't quite make out but this was for the child Jens Christensen.  He was the fourth child born to the Jensons and was buried in the Torslev parish in Denmark the month prior to Anders and Nicolena leaving.  

On the other inner pillar is Clara Marie who lived only two years as well (father Carl Gustaf Engstrom).  In all, the Christine Marie Jenson only had two surviving children of the eight that she had.  Sadly one year after arriving in the United States her husband was killed in a wagon accident.    

Update on Jens Christensen: Older brother to Anders Christensen

1860 Torslev census, page 17.  Sorry about the upside down image and the blurry images in the prior posts.  The images are clean and correct on my computer but are being transferred incorrectly to the blog.  I found this page as I was looking for Anders Christensen in the Torslev 1860 census.  I had not been able to find Jens and his family in any census after 1855 but here they are.  He is living next to his brother Andreas.  Jens is 41, his wife, Karen Marie is 39.  They have two children living with them Maren Kirstine, age 14 and Christine Jensen, age 13.  They are listed as Lutheran.  In our records according to Lena's history, there was an Uncle of hers who came over with them to America and I wonder if it was Jens?  I'll keep looking.

Anders Christian Christensen and Kirsten Marie Jensdatter: Parents of Lena Jensen Nelson

 Marriage, Taars parish register, page 202.  Anders Christian Christensen, age 20, marries Kirsten Marie Jensdatter, age 23.  Present are Jens Peter Simonsen and Jens Pedersen.  The date if March 6, 1857.  Anders birth record has been documented in a prior post and he was born October 12, 1836 in Horby parish.  Kirsten Marie was born in Taars.

 Birth, Taars parish register, page 109.  Nicoline Christensen is born December 23, 1857 and Christened January 1, 1858.  Present are Marie Christensdatter of Lasling, Taars, along with Jens Christensen of Torslev (presumably Ander's brother and sister.

 Birth, Torslev parish register, page 57.  Mariane Christensen is born July 2, 1859 and christened in the church December 26.  Kirsten Christensen of Taars is present among others.

 1860 Torslev census, page 27.  The family atleast by July 1859 had moved to Torslev from Taars which were neighboring parishes and where Anders had two brothers living as well:  Andreas and Jens.  Anders is 24, Kirsten Marie is 26.  They are listed as Lutheran.  They have two children listed:  Nicoline, age 3, and Mariane, age 1.  Ander's profession is listed but I cannot read the letters.  He, according to our family records, was a prosperous brickmaker and tinsmith.

 Birth, Torslev parish register, page 69.  Ane Johanne Christensen is born January 30, 1862.  This record does not have a christening listed and the last column says the parents are Mormon.  Which, according to the census and this records, means they joined the church sometime between 1860 and January of 1862.

 Birth, Torslev parish register, page 41.  Jens Christian Christensen is born June 8, 1864.  Anders and Kirsten Marie are living in a place called Bodkerbjerg(?).  There is no christening and the parents are listed as Mormon.

 Death, Torslev parish register, page 47.  Ane Johanne Christensen passes away April 18, 1865 and is buried April 25.  Her father was Anders Christensen of Bodkerbjerg.  She was 3 years old.

Death, Torslev parish register, page 31.  Jens Christian Christensen passes away March 31, 1866 and is buried April 7.  In the last column as in the previous death record, the word Mormon is seen.  He was  1 3/4 years old.  I've found the boat "The Kenilworth" that the family came over to the United states with.  It left in May of 1866 which means that they would have buried their little boy and very shortly left for Utah.  

The Ship that brought Anders Christensen and Kirsten Marie Jensdatter to America

Kenilworth

Source:  Scandinavian Emigrant Ship Descriptions and Voyage Narratives (1852-1868)
from Ships, Saints, and Mariners by Conway B. Sonne and other sources.Ship: 987 tons: 165' x 34' x 24'
Built: 1853 by John Currier at Newburyport, Massachusetts
Sailing from Hamburg on 25 May 1866, the British ship Kenilworth carried on board 684 Mormon passengers. Of this number 583 were Danes, 23 Norwegians, 73 Swedes, and 5 Germans. Elder Samuel L. Sprague presided over the emigrant company. He was assisted by Elders Morten Lund, Fred R. E. Berthelsen, and Ole H. Berg. Under the command of Captain J. Brown the square-rigger arrived at New York on 16 July-a fifty-two-day passage. During the voyage there were twelve deaths, seven marriages, and two births. I
Originally built in America as the Volant, the ship was transferred to British registry in 1864 and renamed Kenilworth. In 1866 her owner was David Jones of Swansea. She was a two-decker with a square stern and a billethead. On 27 August 1877 the Kenilworth was lost in the Strait of Belle Isle.



Mormon Migration (mormonmigtation.lib.byu.edu)
"Fri. 25. [May 1866] -- The ship Kenilworth sailed from Hamburg, Germany, with 684 Scandinavian Saints, under the direction of Samuel L. Sprague. The company landed in New York July 17th and arrived at Wyoming [Nebraska] July 29th."
CC, p.75
". . . A company of emigrating Saints (the first of the year's emigration) left Copenhagen by steamer 'Aurora' May 17, 1866, and arrived early on the following day (May 18th) in Kiel, from which city the company went by train to Altona. From there the women and children continued in a small steamer to Hamburg, while the men walked to the same place. On their arrival in Hamburg, the emigrants were lodged for the night in a large emigrant building, and the following day went on board the double-decked ship 'Kenilworth' (Captain Brown). On Tuesday, May 22nd, more emigrants (who had left Copenhagen the preceding day) together with Elders Carl Widerborg, Niels Wilhelmsen, George M. Brown and Christian Christiansen, arrived in Hamburg, and on the 23rd the ship sailed a few miles down the river Elbe, where it anchored. On the 24th President Carl Widerborg, accompanied by Elders Niels Wilhelmsen and Christian Christiansen, came on board and organized the company, appointing Samuel L. Spraque president with Elder Morten Lund as his assistant. Fred R. E. Berthelsen was appointed secretary and Elder Ole H. Berg captain of the guard. The emigrants were divided into forty-two messes, each containing from twelve to seventeen persons, and a president appointed over each mess.
The ship 'Kenilworth' lifted anchor in the river Elbe at Hamburg May 25, 1866, and commenced its long voyage across the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean, with its precious cargo of 684 souls on board; of these 583 were from Denmark, 23 from Norway, 73 from Sweden and five from Germany. The route around the north of Scotland was chosen and one day the ship, driven by contrary winds out of its course, got so close to the west coast of Norway that its rocky cliffs were plainly seen. The Shetland and Orkney Islands were soon passed and the winds were favorable for about three weeks. After that there was continuous headwinds and fog for five weeks, which made the voyage both long and dreary. Captain Brown and the ship's crew treated the passengers in a kind and generous manner, allowing them all the privileges that could reasonably be expected. The provisions were satisfactory and the sick received good attention. Eleven or twelve persons died during the voyage. Among these was a man who wilfully jumped overboard on July 15th, just as land was in sight. A boat was launched in an endeavor to save him, but without success. The following night the ship anchored off Staten Island, and on the 17th of July the emigrants were landed at Castle Garden, the weather being exceedingly hot.
Elder Thomas Taylor, who again acted as emigration agent for the Church in 1866, had experienced much trouble in making the necessary arrangements for transporting the emigrants from New York to Wyoming, Nebraska. The railroad companies, whose lines went out from New York, had apparently planned to speculate at the expense of the 'Mormons,' and hence asked an unusual high price for conveying the emigrants westward. At length, after making a trip to Boston, Elder Taylor succeeded in closing a satisfactory contract for their conveyance, by an entirely new route, which was several hundred miles longer, but much cheaper than the more direct route used to be.
On the evening of the same day that the passengers of the 'Kenilworth' were landed at Castle Garden, the emigrants proceeded on their journey on a large freight steamer to New Haven, Connecticut, where they arrived on the morning of July 18th. After staying there a few hours, the journey northward by train was begun, passing through the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to Montreal in Canada. Here the emigrants had to accept passage in some very uncomfortable and dirty freight and cattle cars, in which they traveled through Canada, the route of travel being along the north bank of the St. Lawrence River and the shores of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, to the St. Clair River. On the evening of July 20th, a part of the train jumped the track near Port Hope on the banks of Lake Ontario, but through the interposition of kind Providence no one was hurt. The emigrants were ferried over the St. Clair River to Port Huron in the State of Michigan, where better cars were obtained, and they wended their way via Chicago to Quincy, Illinois. A steamer took them across the Mississippi River to the Missouri side, where they found temporary shelter from the burning sun in a nearby grove. While stopping there, a young boy who ventured too far out while bathing was drowned in the river. After a very disagreeable ride through the State of Missouri, where the inhabitants at nearly every station did all they could to insult the emigrants, the company arrived at St. Joseph July 27th. From this place they sailed two days on a steamboat up the Missouri River. On this most unendurable passage up the river they suffered all kinds of insults and abuses from a wicked crew
. Finally, the company reached Wyoming, Nebraska, Sunday morning, July 29th, and in the afternoon camped on the heights in and near the town. The 450 teams sent by the Church in 1866 to the Missouri River to assist the poor had already waited some time for the arrival of the emigrants in Wyoming, wherefore the necessary preparations were hurriedly attended to in order to begin the journey across the plains as soon as possible. . . .
. . . A part of the Scandinavian emigrants crossing the ocean that year in the ships 'Kennilworth' and 'Humbolt' crossed the plains in Captain Joseph S. Rawling's ox train, which left Wyoming Aug. 2nd and arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 1st. Another part of them left Wyoming with Captain Peter Nebeker's ox train, Aug. 4th and arrived in Salt Lake City Sept. 29th. A third division left Wyoming with Captain Andrew H. Scott's company, Aug. 8th, and arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 8th. . . ."
HSM, p.191-93, 194


Mormon Migration (mormonmigtation.lib.byu.edu) Passengers:
Anders Christian Christensen -Age 30-Horby, Jutland, DenmarkKirsten Marie Christensen (wife)-Age 27-Taars, Jutland, DenmarkNicoline Christensen (child)-Age 9-Taars, Jutland, DenmarkMariane Christensen (child)-Age 7-Taars, Jutland, Denmark

Nicoline's Family

Birth, Lendum parish register, page 62.  Andreas's future wife is born Nicoline Rasmusdatter on June 4, 1831.  Her mother's name is Trine Larsdatter and she is not married.  The father's name is Rasmus Soresne born in B? parish.  I find her in the 1834 census where she is living with her father.  Trine is 26, unmarried and Nicoline is 3 and unbaptized.  Trine's father Lars Christian Jepsen is 64 is divorced (fraskilt) and is a Smith.  I find Nicoline in the Lendum 1845 census as a "service servant" (tjenestetyende) living with a different family and she is 14.  In the 1840 Census she is living with her mom Trine, who is 32, Nicolene is 10 and there's a second child listed as hers:  Lars Christian Christensen, age 2.  Trine is still unmarried.

Andreas Christensen Family: Older brother to Anders Christensen (Husband of Nicolena)

 Birth, Horby parish register, page 99.  Rasmine Christine Andreasen is born November 7, 1852 to the unmarried Nicoline Rasmusdatter and the father Andreas Christensen of Mosenhuus.  She is christened December 26.

 Marriage, Horby parish register, page 172.  Andreas age 21 1/2, and Nicolene, age 24, are married October 9, 1855.

 Birth, Torslev parish register, page 98.  Trine Andreasen is born June 21, 1856.  It appears that Andreas's father Christen Jensen is present.

 Birth, Torslev parish register, page 12.  Jens Christian Andreasen is born December 10, 1858 and christened January 2, 1859.  I believe two brothers of Andreas are present including Anders and Jens.

 1860 Torslev Census, page 17.  Andreas is 26 born in Horby and is listed as a baptist along with his wife Nicolene age 28 born in Lendum parish.  Listed are their three children Rasmine, age 8 born in Horby, as well as Trine, age 4, and Jens Christian, age 2.  They children are listed as Lutheran.

 Birth, Torslev parish register, page 29.  Carl Christian Andreasen is born February 9, 1862.  There is no christening date listed.

Birth, Torslev parish register, page 64.  Caroline is born March 11, 1865.  There is no christening date listed for her as well.  I cannot find the family in the 1870 or 1880 Torslev census.  I do not know what happens to them and cannot find deaths for them listed in the Torslev parish registers or the surrounding  parishes.