Danish christening sought for Mads Nielsen
I'm working on finding a christening for Mads Nielsen b. 8 January 1852 in Denmark. A few U.S. records show his name as Madsen Nielsen. I'm wondering if this hints that his Danish name is not Mads but possibly an unknown first name followed by Madsen Nielsen. Tell me your thoughts, please. If you are interested in more details here is a link. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K262-Q8Q Thanks for any efforts.
Shari
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@Gordon Collett Please give me your thoughts.
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I saw this but was not going to answer because I haven't done that much Danish research! Looking through the sources for him, that fact that the only one that uses "Madsen" is the death record, after he had any say in the matter, and there are so many other ones that have him as Mads, in which he would have provided the name himself, and the fact that the one thing I tend to see as most stable while working in Norwegian records for emigrants is someone's first name (unless they changed it completely like that other horribly difficult problem you posted with that 7 yo stowaway), that I think you can safely assume his given name in Denmark was Mads. I doubt that he would ever have used in Denmark a double patronymic.
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Thank you very much Gordon for your thoughts.
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