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- An example of Christopher Waidtlev's signature can be found in the probate records, dated January 27, 1786, surrounding the death of his father-in-law Hans Rasmussen Basse.
The Odense shoemaker guild records show that "Christoffer Waidtl?w" obtained master shoemaker status on February 1, 1777.
The Odense tradesman citizenship license (Borgerskab) register, 1785-1842, page 8, shows that shoemaker Christopher Waidtlev obtained his Odense license on May 3, 1786.
From the Vor Frue kirkebog:
October 13, 1784: October den 13de Seignr. Christopher Waitlev Skomager Mester og Jomfrue Dorthe Basse viede i huuset.
From the St. Knuds kirkebog:
November 2, 1785: No. 53, Den 2de November blev Christopher Waidtl?w Skoemagers barn d?bt og kaldet Karen. Rasmus Basses enke baer det, og Margrethe Waidtl?w gik hos. Fadderne vare Hans Uldrich Waidtl?w, J?rgen Waidtl?w, og Mester Claus Brodersen Skoemager.
June 28, 1787: No. 34, Den 28de Juny blev Christopher Waidtl?w Skoemager, og hands hustrue Dorothea Basses barn d?bt, og kaldet Ane Lovisa. Rasmus Basses enke baer det, og Hans Uldrich Waidtl?w Feldbereders hustrue gik hos. Fadderne vare Rasmus Basse Skoemager, Johannes Waidtl?w Feldbereder, og Hans Christian Feldbereder.
From the 1787 census of Odense:
Vindegade 217, 292de Familie: Christopher Waidtl?w, husbonde, 36, 1st ?gteskab, Husstandsoverhoved, Skomager; Dorthea Basse, hans kone, 26, 1st ?gteskab, Gift med Husstandsoverhoved; Karen, 2, ugift, deres datter; Ane Louise, 1, ugift, deres datter; Ane, den sal. Basses enke, husbondes faster, 70, Enke efter 1st ?gteskab; Marie Hansdatter, 40, Tjenestefolk, ugift, Tjenestepige; Christian Hiorth, 21, Tjenestefolk, ugift, Skomagerl?rling; J?rgen Basse, 16, Tjenestefolk, ugift, Skomagerl?rling; Christen Johansen, 11, Tjenestefolk, ugift, Skomagerl?rling.
Note: The above J?rgen Basse is probably Dorthea's younger brother J?rgen Andreas Basse.
From the St. Knuds kirkebog:
June 29, 1789: No. 24, Den 27 Juny blev Christopher Waidtl?w Skoemager, og hands hustrue Dorothea Hansd. Basses barn d?bt og kaldet Marie. J?rgen Waidtl?ws hustrue baer det, og Ane Margrethe Waidtl?w gik hos. Fadderne vare J?rgen Waidtl?w, Hans Christian Waidtl?w, og Niels Waidtl?w.
February 4, 1790: No. 4, Den 4de Febr. Christopher Waidtl?w Skoemagers datter Karen, gl. 4 aar og 3 maan. under, begravet i 1ste part jord.
September 22, 1790: No. 38, Den 22de September blev Christopher Waidtl?w Skoemager og hands hustrue Dorthea Basses barn d?bt, og kaldet Philip. Margrethe Waidtl?w baer det, og Birthe Sophie Waidtl?w gik hos. Fadderne vare Hans Uldrich Waidtl?w, Johannes Waidtl?w og Peder Grewe.
February 21, 1793: No. 9, Samme dato (den 21de Febr.) Christopher Waidtlow Skoemagers d?df?dt barn i 1st p. jord.
December 17, 1794: No. 46, Den 17 December blev Christopher Waidtl?w Skoemager og hands hustrue Dorothea Basses barn d?bt og kaldet Karen. Margrethe Philipsdatter bar det, og Sidsel Basse gik hos. Fadderne vare Rasmus Basse, J?rgen Waidtl?w og Hans Christian Waidtl?w.
June 3, 1797: No. 21, Den 3die Juny blev Christopher Waidtl?w Skoemagers og hands hustrue Dorthea Basses barn d?bt og kaldet Ane Margrete. Hans Ulrich Waidtl?ws hustrue bar det, og J?rgen Waidtl?ws hustrue gik hos. Fadderne vare Hans Ulrich Waidtl?w, J?rgen Waidtl?w, og Johannes Waidtl?w.
From the 1801 census of Odense:
Vestergade 273, 421 Familie: Christopher Waidtl?w, husbonde, 51, 1 ?gteskab, Skomager; Dorthea Basse, hans kone, 38, 1 ?gteskab; Marie Waidtl?w, 11, deres barn; Philip Waidtl?w, 11, deres barn; Karen Waidtl?w, 7, deres barn; Grette Waidtl?w, 4, deres barn; J?rgen Buch, 32, Skomagersvend; Frederich Clausen, 19, Tjenestefolk, ugift; Jens Andreasen, 11, Tjenestefolk, ugift; Anne Marie Steffensdatter, 22, Tjenestefolk, ugift.
From the 1801 census of Horne parish, Sallinge district:
Horne By: Peder Waidtlow, 57, gift, husbond, Sognepr?st; Johanne Thalia Barscher, 53, gift, kone; Walborre Cathrine Hansen, 69, ugift, konens moster, lever af hendes midler; Anna Lovise Waidtlow, 12, ugift, mandens brordatter; Peder Hansen, 52, ugift, Tjenestefolk; Peder Michelsen, 30, ugift, Tjenestefolk; Maren Pedersdatter, 38, ugift, Tjenestefolk; Anna Hansdatter, 28, ugift, Tjenestefolk; Maren Larsdatter, 21, ugift, Tjenestefolk; J?rgen Hansen, 74, ugift, Udtjent karl, nyder frit ophold for mange aars tro tjeneste; Lars Pedersen, 13, ugift, antaget fader- og moderl?st barn.
The above "Anna Lovise Waidtlow, 12, ugift, mandens brordatter" must be the daughter of Christopher Waidtlev, she is not listed as living with her parents in the 1801 census of Odense.
Confirmation records from St. Knuds Kirkebog:
1802: Skoemager Christopher Vaitlevs datter Anne Louise Vaitlev, 15 aar.
1805: Christopher Vaitlevs s?n Philip Vaitlev, 15 aar.
1809: Skomager Chr. Waidtl?ws datter Karen, 15 aar.
1812: Anne Magrethe Waitlev, 14-1/2 aar gammel af Odense, fader: Christopher Vaitlev, Skomagermester.
(Marie Waidtlev (1790), might possibly have died sometime between 1801 and 1805, as no confirmation record was found - although it may have been missed.)
November 10, 1815: Dorthe Hansdatter Basse, Skomagermester Christopher Vaitlevs hustru i Odense, 52 aar.
From the Odense home-owner census of 1819:
Nr. 276, Westergade, Nordre Side: Christopher Waidtlev, master shoemaker; and Jacob Brinck, apprentice cabinetmaker.
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Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), the famous Danish poet and fairytale writer was born in Odense in 1805 and lived there until 1819. He wrote the following about Odense of that time in his autobiography "Mit Livs Eventyr":
Odense was in my childhood quite another town from what it is now, when it has shot ahead of K?benhavn, with its water carried through out the town and I know not what else! Then it was a hundred years behind the times; many customs and manners prevailed which long since disappeared from the capital. The old houses with their courtyards and their thick walls and their oriel windows, their scutcheons, their carved timber-butts, and the sculptured figures of the apostles on their facades; in the town's streets were still to be seen figures in knee breeches and with shiny metal buttons on their coats, with queues and little three-cornered hats, bearing in their hands long canes adorned with single balls of amber. When the guilds removed their signs, they went in procession with flying banners and with lemons dressed in ribbons stuck on their swords. A harlequin with bells and a wooden sword ran at the head; one of them, an old fellow called Hans Struh, made a great hit by his merry chatter and his face, which was painted black, except the nose, that kept its genuine red color.
The first Monday in Lent the butchers used to lead through the streets a fat ox, adorned with wreaths of flowers and ridden by a boy in a white shirt and wearing wings. The sailors also passed through the streets with music and flags and streamers flying; two of the boldest ended by wrestling on a plank placed between two boats, and the one that did not tumble into the water was the hero. The new year was solemnly drummed in by the town musicians, dressed in striped trousers and yellow bandoleers; thereafter they marched out into the country on the same praiseworthy errand, and came back to town with pork and sausages hanging round their drums. Every Easter morning the Nunnebacke was thronged with people who had gone there to see the sun dance for joy at Christ's resurrection. Once a year the citizen's rifle club drew up on the heath outside of town; the way there led under triumphal arches, all the schools and workshops had a free day, the boys ran around cheering with green branches in their hands and on the march home in the evening the target was borne along in triumph, while the whole town followed the bacchantic train.
But what especially was fixed in my memory, and is very often revived by being spoken about, was the stay of the Spaniards on Fyn in 1808. Denmark was in alliance with Napolean, who had declared war against Sweden, and before anybody was aware of it, a French army and Spanish auxiliary troops, under command of Marshal Bernadotte, Prince of Pontecorvo, entered Fyn in order to pass over into Sweden. I was at that time not more than three years old, but I remember very well those dark-brown men bustling in the streets, and the cannon that were fired in the market-place and before the bishop's residence; I saw the foreign soldiers stretching themselves on the sidewalks and on bundles of straw in the half-burned St. Han's Church. The castle of Kolding was burnt, and Pontecorvo came to Odense, where his wife and son Oscar were staying. The school-houses all about were changed into guard-rooms, and the mass was celebrated under the large trees in the fields and on the road. The French soldiers were said to be haughty and arrogant, the Spanish good-natured and friendly; a fierce hatred existed between them; the poor Spaniards excited most interest.
Odense at that time had already a substantial play-house built, I believe, for the company of Count Trampe or that of Count Hahn; the first representations I saw were given in the German language. Mr. Franck was the director; he gave operas and comedies. "Das Donauweibchen" was the favorite piece; the first representation, however, that I saw was Holberg's "Village Politicians." The first impressions which a theatre and the crowd assembled there made upon me was, at all events, no sign of anything poetical slumbering in me; for my first exclamation on seeing so many people was, "Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!" The theatre, however, soon became my favourite place. During the summer before my Confirmation (in 1819), a troup of singers and performers from the Theatre Royal had been in Odense, and had given a series of operas and tragedies there. The whole city was taken with them.
Fredrik B??k's biography of Hans Christian Andersen provides this additionally bit of information:
Hans Christian Andersen made a practice of standing on a big stone down by the Odense River and singing; he began with songs from his theatrical repertoire, and went from them to products of his own inspiration, with melodies and words which no one could really understand. Surely it was the whole content of his child's sole, with all its fear, unrest, and longing, which found expression in the lyric and muscial improvisations; but the innocent little singer knew very well that, in the river-side garden behind the board fence, people listened with astonishment and fascination to his unusual concert. Privy Councillor Falbe, whose wife had been a well-known actress, lived there; on beautiful summer evenings the Falbes often had visitors in their garden, and they had the curious pleasure of listening to the clear boyish soprano rising from the river's edge. Hans Christian never sang better and more eagerly than when he knew he had a large and interested audience. He was not shy.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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