Help with Ole Jensen from Tranholm
Hello everyone,
My great great grandfather, and the patriarch of my Danish-American family (he migrated in 1909) Lars Peter Jensen was born out of wedlock to an Ole Jensen and his mother, Johanne Marie Kathrine Larsen, in 1884 in the village of Tranholm, Horsens sogn, Aalborg. While we as a family know a lot about Lars and his mother (well, a lot is an exaggeration), I am trying to find out what happened to Ole, as he seems to completely disappear from all records between 1880 and 1890. Here's what I know so far:
1. His parents are Jens Christian Simonsen (18 Dec 1821 - 24 Nov 1893 in Tranholm) and Anne Jensdatter (13 Oct 1832 in Dronninglund - 10 Nov 1887 in Tranholm). I believe that they may have been landowners and owned a farm there, but I do not know enough about Danish society at the time to know exactly what the situation was.
2. He had an older brother, also named Ole Jensen, that only lived to be 3 years old (born in 1853 and died in 1856).
3. He was born on 5 Feb 1858 and baptized on the 13th. Record was found here, line number 2: https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/da/billedviser?bsid=164443#164443,27618763
4. He was confirmed in 1872 in Horsens sogn, line number 9: https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/da/billedviser?bsid=164444#164444,27619049
5. He has several siblings:
a. Ane Kirstine Jensen (b. 21 Dec 1861 in Tranholm)
b. Maren Jensen (b. 1866 in Tranholm)
c. Jens Jensen (b. 1869 in Tranholm)
d. Jens Christian Jensen (b. 1873 in Tranholm)
6. He appears in every census from 1860 to 1880:
1860: https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/cid9041293
1870: https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/cid9228952
1880: https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/cid10170487
7. His son, Lars Peter Jensen, is born in 1884 in Tranholm. He can be found here, line number 3: https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/da/billedviser?bsid=164445#164445,27619157. If I understand the record correctly, it states that Ole and the mother were not married, but that he was aware that he was the father of the child. The mother, Johanne Marie Kathrine Larsen, was working as a servant in someone's household at the time.
8. Ole Jensen only appears in one other place that I can find: in military levying rolls. The first is here: (1876 Ø Omskrevet 1887) https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/da/billedviser?epid=16481029#19809,1606184. The second place he appears is here: (1876 Ø Tilgangsrulle) https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/da/billedviser?epid=16481029&fbclid=IwAR1b7G96vlu0AHHv1qHLr1fzOc8ml0sIQaoO3cYy9hFQFI8D8fDN2Y4PTbk#187132,31757124. I am not sure how to make sense of these. I believe he was removed from the rolls in 1890, which implies to me that he was at least alive until then. It then seems he was moved to the Sørulle.
At this point I've hit a dead end. If anyone has any ideas about where to look, I'm all ears. Thank you very much!
- Matthew Dent
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@MatthewDent MatthewDent You've done an excellent job of summarizing your findings. I'm not sure I can help but I'll do some thinking and study. I did have the thought of seeing if he is mentioned in any of the records for his siblings. Did you look at the christening records for his nieces/nephews to see if he attends? Did you consider probates of his parents?
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Thank you! He has been a real puzzle. Unfortunately the probates for his parents have not been digitized yet. Which is sad because they were at least small farm owners so there might be something there. Looking at nieces and nephews is a good idea I will try and go through those as I believe he had several.
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@MatthewDent MatthewDent I see that Ole's sister just younger than he has taken over the farm from her parents. So, this presents possible ideas that he has left the country, or is deceased, physical disability, or because of shame (illegitimate child) has left for unknown area.
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@MatthewDent MatthewDent Ole is not a sponsor for the first two children born (1886 and 1888) to his sister Ane Kirstine.
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Yes that's what I've seen as well. I've searched the church books and he didn't die in that parish before 1890. His family were landowners and the women he got pregnant would have been a servant girl (my great great great grandmother), so I can imagine that perhaps there was some controversy and he tried to get away from it. The only clue that throws me is that he isn't removed from the lægsrulle until 1890 and it doesn't say that he was deceased or left. In 1883, around the time that she would have been pregnant probably, he was transferred to the sørulle but unfortunately they have not been digitized yet and I can't see what happened. I don't know if being transferred to the sørulle meant that he went somewhere else, perhaps for training, or what. My gut is telling me that he left the country and it may be really hard to find him if that's the case.
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