♀Anna Magdalena Thomsen

Anna Magdalena Thomsen (born about 1723) was a widow of Süderbrarup in Angeln, in the Duchy of Schleswig^W (now in Germany), who at the age of eighty was living in her son’s house at Lindau, with three generations of the family under one roof. She was the fifth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her son Peter Thomsen (born about 1750).

The census of 1803 is the only record of her yet found. It enters her in the parcel district of Lindau as “Mutter des Hausvaters”, the mother of the head of the house, a widow of eighty. Her son Peter Thomsen was a Parcelist, the holder of a parcel of land split off from a larger farm, and she shared his home with his wife, Metta Catharina Friis, and their seven children, aged two to eighteen, among them her grandson Thomas Hinrich Thomsen, then twelve. Her husband had died by then and is not named. The census enters her daughter-in-law under her birth name, written Fries, so Thomsen may have been Anna Magdalena’s own birth name rather than her husband’s. Her age places her birth about 1723; where she was born, who her parents were and when she died are not known.