Niels Christian Christensen

  Generelle notater:

Han blev født den 1 august 1823, hjemmedøbt denh 3 august 1823, fremstillet i kirken den 19 oktober 1823, søn af indsidder Christen Nielsen og hustru Johanne Andersdatter fra Høgsted.
Faddere: Kjersten Nielsdatter af Stenum sogn, Bodil Marie Andersdatter fra Høgsted, Anders Nielsen Ørum, ibid, Niels Andersen, ibid, og Mads Christian Andersen, ibid.
(Kilde: Vrejlev kirkebog 1814-1830, opslag 29, Hjørring amt).

Kort livshistorie for Niels Christian
Niels Christian Christensen blev født den 1. august 1823, i Vrejlev, Børglum, Danmark. He married Inger Magrethe Enevoldsdatter on 1. December 1848, in Vrejlev, Børglum, Danmark. De var forældre til mindst 7 sønner og 2 døtre. Han boede i Høgsted, Vrejlev, Børglum, Danmark i 1870 og Pleasant Grove Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, Amerikas Forenede Stater i 1900. Han døde efter 1903.

Niels & Mette (second wife) traveled to America with Mette's grandchildren, Emma Pauline Pedersen (Jenny) and Carl Oscar Adolf Pedersen.

Niels leaves behind all of his children, none of them emigrated or joined with the LDS faith, as far as I can discover.

A company of emigrating Saints (141 souls) sailed from Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28, 1891, bound for Utah, 41 of these were from Skåne, 14 from Goteborg, 66 from Stockholm, 11 from Aarhus and 9 from the Ålborg Conference.  The following elders who returned from missions accompanied the emigrants: Carl Soderlund, John A. Beckstrand, Nils Nilson, Andrew P Renstrom, and Boyd B. P. Petersen.  (History of the Scandinavian Mission, Andrew Jenson, Deseret News Press, 1927)

This temple trip in 1903 is a poignant window into the larger story.
In 1903, Niels, Jens, and Mariane make a temple trip to Salt Lake from Pleasant Grove.
Niels was widowed in April of 1900 with the death of his second wife, Mette. In June he takes the Mette's son Anders and his family into his home as they are recent immigrants. Anders missed seeing his mother alive by two months.
Here in these notes is the continuation of a love story between Niels and Inger. They lived on Høgsted Mark (Hawk Farm), in Denmark and raised their family there. They had 6, possibly 7 children. They were god parents to at least 3 children of unmarried women who worked for Niels on the farm. The names of the fathers are given but Niels is listed as their employer - significant and not that common in Danish records.
In 1862 they are godparents to Anne Marie Pedersen who is the 7th child of Peder and Mette giving us an insight into the friendship that existed between the two families. Peder died later in 1862. Inger died in 1874. Niels and Mette were married in 1876, joined the LDS church in 1888 and emigrated from Denmark to the US in 1891, bringing with them two of Mette's young grandchildren.
Jens is Mette's 3rd child and would have grown up knowing the Niels and Ingers family. Jens was baptized in March of 1900, just shortly before his mothers death in April of 1900. He and Mariane were married in March of 1903 in the Provo Courthouse. They are sealed on this trip "for time only". Mariane was married and sealed previously to Mogens Peder (Peter) Sorensen in 1867.
Mariane also does temple work for her Father who died in June of 1903 on this trip. She had immigrated in 1862 with her mother and grandmother, leaving behind her father who remarried on grounds of abandonment and had another family in Denmark. Mariane was born in Tårs which is very close to Mette's Rønneberghede and Niel's Høgsted. They had a great deal to draw them close together.
To me, the sealings which were not completed at this time, showed their understanding of the principle. The fact that they were there together, that Mariane stands as proxie for Inger in her temple work and sealing to Niels and also for Mette in her sealing to Peder on this same day, shows their love and care for each other and for those who passed before them. I have no pictures or histories of these people but I believe the records of these few days in the temple tells volumes about who they were.
Jan Budge.
* It is not possible to take images of temple documents, so notes have to suffice.

  Begivenheder i hans liv:

• Bopæl, 1834, Vrejlev, Børglum, Hjørring, Danmark.

• Konfirmation, 1838, Vrejlev, Hjørring, Danmark.

• Bopæl, 1850, Vrejlev, Børglum, Hjørring, Danmark.

• Bopæl, 1850, Hogsted, Vrejlev, Hjorring, Denmark.

• Bopæl, 1860, Hogsted, Vrejlev, Borglum, Hjorring.

• Bopæl, 1855, Hogsted, Vrejlev, Hjorring, Denmark.

• Bopæl, 1880, Hjorring, Borglum, Vrejlev, Ronnebjerg, et Hus 152.

• Bopæl: Census, 1855, Vrejlev, Børglum, Hjørring, Denmark.

• Bopæl: 1870, 1870, Høgsted, Vrejlev, Hjørring, Denmark.

• Bopæl: Census, 1860, Vrejlev, Børglum, Hjørring, Danmark.

• Indvandring, 1892.

• Indvandring, 28 Maj 1891.

• Bopæl, 1900, Pleasant Grove Precinct Pleasant Grove city, Utah, Utah, United States.

Niels blev gift med Inger Magrethe Enevoldsdatter den 1 Dec. 1848 i Vrejlev, Hjørring, Danmark. (Inger Magrethe Enevoldsdatter blev født den 9 Apr. 1823 i Gunderup, Vrejlev, Hjørring, Danmark, dåb den 9 Apr. 1823 i Vrejlev, Hjørring, Danmark, døde den 16 Maj 1874 i Vrejlev, Hjørring, Danmark og blev begravet den 25 Maj 1874 i Vrejlev, Hjørring, Danmark.)

  Ægteskabsnotater:

Ungkarl Niels Christian Christensen fra Høgsted, født samme steds den 1 august 1823 og pigen Inger Margrethe Enevoldsdatter fra Tollerup, født i Gunderup den 9 april 1823.
Forlovere: husmand Enevold Andersen af Tollerup og husmand Jens Andersen fra Lille Beth.
Viet den 1 december 1848.
(Kilde: Vrejlev kirkebog 1836-1849, opslag 134, Hjørring amt).

Niels blev derefter gift med Mette Kirstine Pedersdatter den 15 Sep. 1876 i Vrejlev, Hjørring, Denmark. (Mette Kirstine Pedersdatter blev født den 4 Mar. 1826 i Sønder Harritslev, Harritslev, Hjørring, Denmark, dåb den 5 Mar. 1826 i Harritslev, Hjørring, Denmark, døde den 4 Apr. 1900 i Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States og blev begravet den 7 Apr. 1900 i Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, Utah, Utah, United States.)

  Ægteskabsnotater:

Enkemand og husmand Niels Christian Christenseni Rønnebjerg, født i Høgsted den 1 august 1823 og enken Mette Kirstine Pedersdatter, født i Taars den 4 marts 1826, boende i Rønnebjerg.
Forlovere: gårdmand Mads Chr. Christensen i Rønnebjerg og husmand Jens Andersen i Lille Beth.
Viet den 15 september 1876.
(Kilde: Vrejlev kirkebog 1876-1888, opslag 236, Hjørring amt).