Name: Else
Katrine Larsen
Called by Grandkids:
Likely farmor on my side of the tree, which is Danish for father's mother,
because she was my great-grandfather's mother, though I don't know that my
grandmother or her siblings ever met her.
Birth: 1865,
Ringive, Denmark
Death: 1934,
Vejle, Denmark
Spouse: Jens
Christian Hansen
Marriage: 1855,
Vejle, Denmark
Children: Hansine
Kristine, Hans Jørgen, Holger Skov, Aage, Alfred, Ida Kirstine, Hans Knudsen,
Adolf
Parents: Jørgen
Larsen & Ivare Kirstine Christensen
Siblings:
Kristine, Birte Marie, Mette Margrethe, Lars Kristian, Maren Kirstine, Søren,
Dagmar Augusta, Ane Marie
About: Else was
the eldest child of Jørgen and Kirsten Larsen's nine children. I know little
about her life, though she lived all of it in and around Vejle as an adult,
where she married her husband Jens and raised their eight children. Life was
good, if poor. They often went without things, even such simple things as shoes
for the children, according to her son. Her husband was a farmer, but also made
a living as a mason, a skill which he taught at least one of his sons, my
great-grandfather Holger, which helped him earn enough to come to the US as a
young man. She lived long enough to see many of her children leave Denmark, one
to England, and several more to the US, where they married and raised children
of their own.
By the time Else died, her children had given her eleven
grandchildren, and a twelfth was named for her shortly after her death. Her
descendants live many places around the world today—Denmark, England, USA, and
even Australia.
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| Else (l) with her daughter-in-law, granddaughter, son, and mother ca 1926 |
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