♀Mariana Jacobsen

Mariana Jacobsen (6 May 1797 – 29 November 1839) was the wife of Anders Hansen, a farmer of Vesterhøjst in the parish of Højst in the Duchy of Schleswig^W, and the mother of seven children. She was the third great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her daughter Anna Magdaline Hansen (born 1819).

Life

She was born on 6 May 1797 at Dübbelgaard in Tinglev parish and baptized at Tinglev on 14 May, the daughter of the Hufner (full farmholder) Peter Jacobsen and his wife Ingeborg, whom the baptism entry names “Ingeborg Jessens” after her first husband. Her parents had married at Tinglev on 28 December 1794. Her father died at Eggebæk on 16 March 1798, when she was ten months old; his burial entry names her as his only surviving child. An elder brother, Hans Petersen, born at Eggebek in November 1795, is not named in it. She married Anders Hansen at Højst on 29 February 1816, and the couple farmed at Vesterhøjst, where all seven of their children were born and baptized in Højst church between 1817 and 1834: Peter Jacobsen, Anna Magdalena, Andreas Peter, Johann Christian, Ingeborg, Hans Peter Jessen and Carsten Matthiesen, all with the surname Hansen. The eldest son carried his grandfather’s name, and a daughter her grandmother’s. Mariana herself stood godmother to neighbors’ children in 1823 and 1826. In the census of 1835 she is listed at Højst, aged 38, with six children.

She died at Vesterhøjst on 29 November 1839, aged 42 years and 7 months, and was buried at Højst on 7 December. Her burial entry lists all seven children by name and records that every one of them was still living. Her husband survived her.

Notes

The registers write her surname both as Jacobs and as Jacobsen. The burial entry’s age of 42 years and 7 months points to about April 1797; the Tinglev register gives the birth as 6 May.