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Name: Hans Henrich
Bordevick
Birth: 1769, Bardowick,
Germany
Death: 1813,
Veilholmen, Norway
Marriage: 1796, Trondheim,
Norway
Relation to me:Hans
Henrich Bordevick was my mother's father's father's mother's father's father. Which
makes him 7th generation before me. He is also 8th
generation on the other side of this same family.
Alias(es): Hans
Henrich Bordewich, Hans Henrich Bordevig
Parents: unknown
Spouse(s): Anna
Magdalena Johnsdatter Tiller
Children: 3 – Ole
Hansen, Johan Petter, Hans Oliver
Other Family: none
known
Details: Hans is
one of the few of my brick walls that has been almost researched to death. Not
by me, but by the Bordewich/ Bordewick family in general. We know he was born
in or near an old town that had been decimated during the hundred years war, and that
is where our ancestral name of Bordevig/ Bordevick/ Bordewich/ Bordewick comes
from. There is some speculation that he changed his name at some point before
leaving Germany or after arriving in Norway, as we have found records with
similar information, but the name itself does not match. As of yet, this has
not been proven, however.
What we do know is that Hans Henrich arrived in Norway in
the late 1700s and one of our first records of him is his papers for Norwegian citizenship
so that he could become a ship's captain. We also have documentation on a few
ships, and of his marriage to a lovely Norwegian girl by the name of Anna, with
whom he had three boys. The eldest died in infancy, and Hans died himself when
the youngest boy was only about six in a shipwreck of the coast of Norway. He
and his crew made land, but froze to death before help could reach them. His
eldest remaining son took care of the family as well as he could after his
passing, though we have little record of that time until Johan's own marriage.
Anna lived for many years past her husband's early death,
dying in 1846, some thirty years later.
Proof:
1) As
I said above, the family has researched Hans Henrich heavily in an attempt to
get past the block in the tree he represents. So I was given quite a bit of
information on Johan over the years from my grandfather's notes, as well as the
other Genealogists in my extended family, the primary version of which was
various forms of the family tree.
2) The
second bit of proof I have on Hans Henrich is the notes from Johan Petter, who
recorded quite a bit about his family over the years, though mostly about his
children.
3) The
first time I was able to find information on my family online was a tree about
the Hagerup family, which was
related to Johan's daughter-in-law, who married my great-great-great grandfather.
4) After
that, I began to find records at Family Search. The most important of these is
the marriage record for Hans Henrich and Anna Magdalena Tiller.
5) The
Baptismal record for Johan Petter also has Hans Henrich listed, though Johan is
listed as Johan Petter Hans Henrichsen Bordevick.
6) Then
there is Johan's marriage record to his first wife, and the marriage record of
Hans Oliver to Edwardine Tiller (an adopted daughter into his mother's
brother's family, the story goes).
Needed:
In this case, as you can see, I have quite a bit. The main
thing we're looking for is proof of Hans Henrich's life in Germany, and where
he was born. We'd love to know who his parents were. As I said, we have a guess
on this, but no way to prove it at this time, so we are currently unable to get
further in this family.
As always, if my family or anyone out there has any more
information on this family, I'd love to talk to you about them. I'd love to
learn more on any of them, if at all possible.
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