♂Hans Jessen

Hans Jessen (about September 1744 – 20 December 1793) was a Hufner, the holder of a full farm, in Tinglev parish in the Duchy of Schleswig^W. He was the first husband of Ingeborg Hansen, the fourth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), who descends from her second marriage.

He and Ingeborg had a daughter, Ingeborg Margretha, born about March 1793. She died on 3 September 1793, aged 25 weeks, and was buried at Tinglev on 8 September. The burial register calls her father “the Hufner Hans Jessen” and her mother “Ingeborg geb. Hansen”, born Hansen. Hans Jessen died at Dübbelgaard on 20 December 1793, three and a half months after his daughter, and was buried at Tinglev on 29 December. The register gives his age as 49 years and 3 months and records that he left a widow, Ingeborg Hansens. The two burials stand on the same page of the register.

A year later, on 28 December 1794, his widow married Peter Jacobsen of Westerhöist. The marriage entry describes her as the widow of the late Hufner Hans Jessen in Eggebek. Her daughter by that marriage, Mariana, was born at Dübbelgaard in 1797.

Notes

The date and place of Hans Jessen’s marriage to Ingeborg Hansen have not been found. The Tinglev marriage register for 1785–1794 does not contain it. His parents are not known. The Tinglev register names other men called Hans Jessen at Eggebek in the same years: one, already a widower, married a Botilla in 1785, and another had a wife named Maren. The records do not show whether either was this man.