♀Anne Jensdr

Anne Jensdr (14 August 1806 – 19 December 1892) was a woman of Aventoft, a village in the Duchy of Slesvig^W, then under the Danish crown and today in Germany, and the wife of Niels Jensen (born 1801). She was the third great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her daughter Christine Marie Bossen (1829–1911).

No record of her parents has been found. Her name is a patronymic: Jensdr is the written short form of Jensdatter, “daughter of Jens”. The family tree gives her birth at Aventoft on 14 August 1806 and her death there on 19 December 1892, but no record behind either date, or behind her marriage, has been found. Her place as the mother of Christine Marie Bossen rests on no record either: the sources attached to that link in the family tree are Massachusetts record collections and a family-tree index, none of which concerns a family in Slesvig. The daughter’s surname also sits awkwardly with the parentage. In a family that still used patronymics, as Anne’s own name shows, a daughter of Niels Jensen would be expected to be called Nielsdatter rather than Bossen, although fixed family names were also in use in Slesvig at the time. The Aventoft census returns of 1845 and 1860 hold a Bossen fisherman’s household that has been examined as a possible family for Christine instead, and no record yet decides between the two. The Aventoft church registers, which would hold Christine’s baptism in 1829 and Anne’s own burial, are in German custody and are not among the Danish national archive’s online records; no entry from them is known.