Help understanding skifteprotokoller record

Startet af Brian Martin, 20 Jun 2011 - 22:52

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Brian Martin

I am trying to understand this Skifteprotokoller record and would appreciate any corrections. Anne Jensdatter and Rasmus Nielsen mentioned here are my 6th great grandparents.

Skifte 31 okt. 1759 Torp, Underup Sogn, Nim Herred, Skanderborg Amt, Danmark
1085 Afkald 31.10.1759, side 935. Afkald fra Maren Jørgensdatter g.m. Holger Albertsen i Torp, Knud Jensen i Hornborg som FM for Jørgen Fogsen og hustru Mette Jensdatters 2B: Karen 22, Enevold 17 for arv efter Rasmus Nielsen i Gedveds hustru Anne Jensdatters forrige mand Jens Enevoldsen sst, skifte 12.6.1758. Jens Enevoldsen arvede huset efter far Enevold Jensen. Sml. lbnr.868.

Using Google translate and a little knowledge from browsing old Danish records, I came to this conclusion:

This probate record resolves the inheritance of the house that had belonged to Jens Enevoldsen, which he had inherited from his father Enevold Jensen. Maren Jorgensdatter, wife of Holger Albertsen of Torp, and Knud Jensen as guardian for the estate of Jorgen Fogsen and Mette Jensdatter, waived any claim to the house. I believe that Maren Jorgensdatter was the daughter of Jorgen Fogsen and Mette Jensdatter and that Mette Jensdatter's first husband had been Enevold Jensen, so Mette Jensdatter was Jens Enevoldsen's mother and Maren Jorgensdatter was Jens Enevoldsen's half-sister. The house will go to Jens Enevoldsen's children Karen [Jensdatter], age 22, and Enevold [Jensen], age 17. Their mother, Jens Enevoldsen's widow Anne Jensdatter had married Rasmus Nielsen in 1758.

Am I interpreting this correctly?

Brian Martin

Ole Westermann

Brian,

I understand it this way:

Jens Enevoldsen had inherited the house from his father Enevold Jensen.
Jens Enevoldsen (JE) married Anna Jensdatter (AJ) (and when JE died she married Rasmus Nielsen)
JE & AJ got the daughter Mette Jensdatter, who got married to Jørgen Fogsen.

Jørgen Fogsen & Mette Jensdatter got the children
Maren Jørgensdatter, who married Holger Albertsen
Karen (Jørgensdatter) and
Enevold (Jørgensen).

At the 'skifte' in 1759 Knud Jensen in Hornborg was guardian (FM= 'formynder') for Karen and Enevold.
I read the text in the way, that all 3 children Maren, Karen and Enevold waived any claim to the house (and other things).

Ole