♀Ingeborg Hansen

Ingeborg Hansen (dates unknown) was a farmer’s widow of Eggebæk who married a second time in 1794 and was widowed again in 1798, when her second husband, Peter Jacobsen, a farmer’s son from Vesterhøjst, died leaving her with a baby daughter. Her first husband’s name, not her own, stood in the register against that daughter’s baptism. She was the fourth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her daughter Mariana Jacobsen (1797–1839), in the Duchy of Schleswig^W.

First marriage

Her first husband was Hans Jessen, a Hufner, the holder of a full farm, a Hufe. The Tinglev burial register of 1793 records the end of that marriage. Their daughter Ingeborg Margretha died on 3 September 1793, aged 25 weeks. Her entry names the parents as the Hufner Hans Jessen and “Ingeborg geb. Hansen”, which states outright that Ingeborg was born Hansen. Hans Jessen died at Dübbelgaard on 20 December 1793, aged 49 years and 3 months, and was buried at Tinglev on 29 December. The register records that he left a widow, “Ingeborg Hansens”. She had lost a child and a husband within four months. The date and place of the first marriage have not been found, and the Tinglev marriage register for 1785–1794 does not contain it. Her parents and the dates of her own birth and death are not known.

Second marriage

A year after Hans Jessen’s death, on 28 December 1794, the Tinglev church register records her marriage to Peter Jacobsen of Westerhöist, as the clerk wrote it. It describes her as the widow of the late Hufner Hans Jessen in Eggebek and gives her name as Ingeborg Hansen.

Their first child, a son, was born at Eggebek on 19 November 1795 and baptized at Tinglev on 29 November as Hans Petersen, the lawful son of the Hufner Peter Jacobsen in Eggebek and Ingeburg Hansen. The register writes his surname as Petersen, a patronymic meaning “son of Peter”, where his father was Jacobsen, son of Jacob.

Her daughter Mariana was born at Dübbelgaard on 6 May 1797 and baptized at Tinglev on 14 May, the daughter of the Hufner Peter Jacobsen and “Ingeborg Jessens”. The baptism gives her first husband’s surname, Jessen, where the marriage gives Hansen; her son’s baptism of 1795 gives Hansen again, and the records do not explain the difference.

Peter Jacobsen died on 16 March 1798 and was buried at Tinglev on 25 March. His burial entry names her again as “Ingeborg Hansens”, his widow, with one daughter, Marianna. The entry names no son, only the daughter, so Hans had most likely died before then; his burial has not been found, and the Tinglev baptisms from 1795 to January 1799 hold no other child of the couple.

When Mariana died at Vesterhøjst on 29 November 1839, the Højst church register named her as the daughter of Peter Jacobsen in Eggebek and his wife Ingeborg. It did not say whether Ingeborg was still living. A granddaughter, Ingeborg Hansen, baptized at Højst in April 1826, carried her name.