Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Elizabeth Marie Hansen


Elizabeth Marie Hansen  (GGGGM, 1827 - 1895, as recorded by Paulene Anderson, 1996) -

 

     In 1814, Denmark was separated from Norway.  Denmark, much like Norway is a country dominated by water travel due to their many islands.  Much of Denmark’s trades and industry related to sailing and shipping.  The Danes had sufferd much during the war with England.  Lisa Marie Hanson was born into a time of new felt progress and recovery from that war.  The peasants were making agricultiural progress and their intellectual movement was just dawning.  War time shipping was being replaced with commerce and industrial shipping. 

     Lisa was born on October 13, 1827 the only child of Hans Jensen and Anna Jacobson in Ostbirk, Skanerborg, Denmark.  She was born the child of her mother’s first husband, and it is thought that she may have been born out of wedlock.  Danish people are known as having a great sense of humor and being quite affable.  They have always been preoccupied with the here and now of everyday life and with little concern for preparation for the future.  She was 25 years of age when she married Anders Christensen on December 3, 1852.

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