♂Hans Peter Jessen Hansen

Hans Peter Jessen Hansen (born 17 March 1829) was a farmer’s son of Vesterhøjst, in the parish of Højst, Tønder, in the Duchy of Schleswig^W, Denmark, the sixth of the seven children of Anders Hansen (1794–1861) and Mariana Jacobsen (1797–1839). He was the second great-grand-uncle of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the brother of Anna Magdaline Hansen (born 1819), Roger’s second great-grandmother.

Early life

Hans Peter was born on 17 March 1829 at Vesterhøjst and baptized in Højst church, Tønder, Denmark, on 25 March. His father held a farm there, and he grew up among three older brothers and two sisters; his youngest brother, Carsten Matthiesen, was born when he was five. Indexes of the Danish censuses of 1835 and 1840 list him among the children in his father’s household. In November 1839, when he was ten, his mother died, and her burial entry records that all seven children were still living.

Later years

By February 1851 he was a bachelor of twenty-one, and the Højst baptismal register names him among the godparents of Peter Nissen Thomsen, born on 21 February at Alslev to his sister Anna Magdaline and her husband Peter Nicolai Thomsen and baptized on 27 February. When his father died at Alslev on 19 March 1861, the burial entry placed him at Abild. No marriage, children, trade or death is recorded for him here.