Eric Andersen

Axel — Eleonora Kirstine Damgaard. Eleonora died 14 Jan 1965, Aarhus, Denmark; was buried 17 Jan 1965, Aabyhoj, Denmark. [Group Sheet]

Thomas married Marie Sorensen 1 Nov 1896, St. Paul's Kirke, Aarhus, Denmark. Marie (daughter of Peder Sorensen and Ane Kirstine Christensen) was born 13 Dec 1874, Hammel, Denmark; died 10 Dec 1952, Aabyhoj, Denmark; was buried 13 Dec 1952, Aabyhoj, Denmark. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Marie's name was really Maren.

Marie never lived in the home with her new step-family; she was raised in another family. As an adult she worked in a place where thay sold porcelain. Marie would bring her children along to work and her employer was very patient with their behavior. She would say, "Oh just let them do that." Marie and her husband, Martinus, were Christian young people who had met each other at church.

Peder married Ane Kirstine Christensen Abt 1872, Denmark. Ane (daughter of Christen Mikkelsen and Maren Pedersdatter) was born 5 Feb 1850, Volby, Denmark; died 24 Aug 1934, Aabyhoj, Denmark; was buried 31 Aug 1934, Kolt, Denmark. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Ane Kirstine married Soren Sorensen after his first wife died, while his children were still very young. She already had a daughter Marie, who of course became a step-sister to the others, and was known to the next generation as "Tante Marie."

Ane Kirstine had worked for a family for 15-18 years, but the couple and their son died of tuberculosis. The husband in the family had been a manager in a factory where Soren worked, and there Soren met Ane Kirstine, and eventually married her.

In later life, as a widow, Ane Kirstine lived as a tenant at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Marie & Marinus Andersen, in Aabyhoj, Skotojoforretning.