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- From the 1787 census of Odense township:
Adelgade 40, 50 Familie: Jens Pedersen, 50, Gift 2 Gang, Husstandsoverhoved, Skr?der; Ane S?rensdatter, 32, Gift 1 Gang, Gift Med Husstandsoverhoved; Ane Marie Nielsdatter, 25, Ugift, Logerende; Hans Nicolaj, 1, Ugift, Barn Af Logerende; Christen Pedersen, 11, Ugift, Hans Barn Af Tidligere ?gteskab; Christiane Gotlib, 9, Ugift, Hendes Barn Af Tidligere ?gtreskab.
From the 1801 census of Odense township:
540 Familie: J?rgen Iversen, 38, 1 Gift, huusbonde, Dragon; Anna S?rensdatter, 53, 2 Gift, hans kone; Karen Maria, 2, Ugift, deres datterdatter; Rasmus Iversen, 60, Gift, huusbonde, Dagleyer og afskediget dragon med 16rd pension aarlig; Anna Cathrine, 78, Gift, hans kone.
Hans Christian Andersen hardly ever mentioned his mother's mother in his works. Wherever she is shortly mentioned, she is always portrayed as a cold or even evil mother, such as in "Hun duede ikke"or "Den lille pige med Svovlstikkerne" where she send her young daughter out to beg etc.
Anne S?rensdatter was born in Koelbjerg, Vissenbjerg. Her father was a blacksmith. The family later moved to Ubberud, where they had inherited a "bol" (plot of land) and a forge. This gave rise to some conflict about Anne's age, whether she could inherit or not, etc. Anne S?rensdatter had three illegitimate children before she got married and had her fourth child. Her eldest daughter, Anne Marie, was born in 1775 in Ubberud (her precise date of birth and the name of her father remain unknown). The second child, Christiane S?rensdatter, was born on 4 December 1778. Her father was a German travelling saddler named Johan Gottfred Fascher from Zeitz near Leipzig. He had come to Odense three months before he first met Anne.
The third child, Marie Kirstine S?rensen, was born on 21 August 1781 in Ubberud, but died the same day. The father was a horseman from The Kings Horsegard and hatmaker from Odense: Reiter Steen.
Right after her release from prison she met her first husband: An impoverished tailor named Jens Pedersen from the infamous Hulgade in Svendborg (as referred to in Hans Christian Andersen's "Kun en spillemand"). He was a widower with four children on his own. Jens had just been released from prison where he had served a sentence. He had previously lost a case in court against the game-keeper of Bj?rnemoseg?rd near Svendborg. He had accused him of having shot a hole in his head, but he lost the case because of a lack of evidence and was sentenced to prison to pay off the fine and court fees.
Jens Pedersen left three of the children to social authorities in Svendborg before serving his sentence. Afterwards he married Anne and they moved to Adelgade 40 in Odense. Christiane, and Jens Pedersens eldest son, lived with them, too. Anne and Jens had another child, Samuel Gothlieb Ernst Conradt, on 3 May 1785, but the boy died a few days later, on 11 May 1785. Jens Pedersen died in May 1790 and was buried on 13 May 1790.
Four years later, the "honest and godfearing widow" Anne S?rensdatter married 30-year-old glovemaker J?rgen Rasmussen. He was a son of Rasmus Iversen, a former "Dragon". At this time, Anne was taking care of her granddaughter Karen Marie. J?rgen Rasmussen joined the Funen "Dragoner". He and some colleagues dabbled with the organisation, he organised a strike which did not work out, their cheating was discovered and consequently he lost his position as dragoon. He then found a job as a night guard in Odense from which he also got fired because of his aggressive behaviour and causing "street riots". He then was employed as a guard in Assens. In 1804 Anne and her husband moved to Bogense. Two years later he died, and Anne started to work at a hospital and also got a pension because her late husband had been in public service. The latest information we get about Anne S?rensdatter is that she applied to social authorities for financial support.
In 1806 a local official reported about an inspection of her house at Adelgade 39, undertaken by himself and two colleagues in order to establish whether she was qualified to receive any benefits. Anne was present during the inspection and reported her age to be almost 70 years. She told them of her last 13 years of marriage an that she had not had any children from this marriage. She went on to tell them about her previous marriage with Jens Pedersen, the tailor, and the four children she had had with him. She said that Anne Marie was alive, married to Hans Andersen and living in Odense, and that Christiane was living in Copenhagen. She did not know, however, whether Christiane was married or not. The house Anne was living in belonged to the Pastor Giesing, and she owed him a whole year's rent. She also owed 1 Rdlr's rent for the oven. Her belongings included and old box, a blue table with two drawers, four chairs (two leather ones and two straw ones), taboret containing tea cups, a sucher, two small old mirrors, a "spinde rok" (spinning wheel) and a hasped Al kaabe. There was also a bed, two blue striped cloaks, a blue bed sheet, a green striped old duvet cover, a long pillow and a short one, an old blue striped duvet, two small old pairs of scissors, two white plates, an iron ildtang, lamp and a few old bed sheets. She had sold most of her late husband's clothes to pay for his funeral. The rest of her belongings were considered to be of so little value that it was not even worth listing them up. Anne did not know exactly how much in dept her husband had been when he died, but she knew that he owed some money to a man for 2de l?s torv.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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1747 - 1825 (~ 78 år)
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