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- From the Gudhjem kirkebog:
March 19, 1739: Bapt., Den 19 Marty hiemmed?bt jeg Ole Hansens drengebarn for menighed, som blefv kaldet Hans.
March 22, 1739: Funus, Dom. Palm. blefv Ole Hansens sp?de drengebarn begrafvet.
March 23, 1740: Bapt.. Onsdagen den 23 Martii blefv Ole Hansens s?n d?bt og kaldet Hans. Barnet bar Hr. Ole Togsvers ki?reste. Pigefadder: Madmlle. Benedicta Giested. Konefadder: Bodil Peder Michelsens. Mandsfaddere: Sven J?rgensen af Clemensker Sogn, Morten Mogensen paa Leensgaard.
June 17, 1742: Baptiz., Dom. 4 p. Trinit. blef Ole Hansens daatter Bodild Kirstine d?bt. Kirstine Svend Jyrgensens bar hende. Faddere: Capitein Jens Jyrgensen, Madz Andersen, min daatter Joanne, Jep Hellesens kone Elizabeth.
January 20, 1744: Funus, Mandagen den 20 Januarii blefv Ole Hansen i Melsted begrafvet udi hans alders 30te aar.
April 19, 1744: Bapt., Dom. Misericordias blefv sl. Ole Hansens s?n d?bt, og kaldet Ole Hansen; barnet bar Ane Claus Clausens. Pigefadder: Jomfr. Elizabeth Togsverd. Konefadder: Peder Snedkers hustrue. Mandsfaddere: Hans Jensen i Melsted, Torchild Pedersen, Hans Madsen.
June 3, 1744: Funus, Onsdagen den 3 Junii blefv sl. Ole Hansens drengebarn Ole Hansen begrafvet, gl. 8 ugger.
Vilhelm Svendsen in "?sterlarsker Sl?gter" provides us with the following information on how Melstedg?rd came into our family ownership:
Looking through the Inheritance-Protocols with their wealth of information about our family history we are able to trace the owners of Melstedg?rd way back to 1681. Ole Pedersen was the name of the fellow who in that year inherited the farm - however, he probably never took charge of the management of Melstedg?rd, as he remained unmarried and died - it seems likely as a sailor, on foreign shores. In the mean time his step-father, Poul Hansen, lived at Melstedg?rd - which he farmed for many years.
Through Ole Pedersen's sister Ellen Pedersdatter, married to Hans Jensen, the farm was handed over to their youngest son Ole Hansen, at the time of his mother's death. However, Ole Hansen died in 1744, only five years later; at the inheritance proceedings many interesting details about the livestock and farming-tools were entered into the protocol.
Ole Hansen and his wife Karen Svendsdatter had three children: a daughter Bodil Kirstine Olsdatter, later married to Hans Ipsen of Lensg?rd, ?sterlars; and two sons - Hans Olsen, later married to Karen Kirstine Jensdatter from N?rreg?rd, ?sterlars parish; and the youngest Ole Hansen, who died as a child. Seeing as that the youngest son had died the right to inherit Melstedg?rd went to the older brother Hans Olsen, but not until after the death of his mother, Karen Svendsdatter. However, she married again later to Thor Pedersen, who took over the management of the farm and became the patriarch of that branch of our family-tree that I call the "Melstedg?rd Line." (They are the parents of Dorthea Thorsdatter, whose eulogy is included with her entry.)
Hans Olsen was the legal owner of Melstedg?rd for more than 20 years until he, at the time of his marriage, took over N?rreg?rd. Then in the year 1766 Melstedg?rd was formally transferred to his step-father Thor Pedersen, and thus also formally became our family possession. The value of the farm was set at 2,100 Slettedaler.
The Gudhjem parish register states that Karen Svendsdatter was buried on March 4, 1785, 68 years, 2 months and 4 days old.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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1717 - 1785 (68 år)
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