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Allison
Junior member
Australia
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 Posted - 02/11/2006 : 02:55:26
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The way the old names were given is very confusing. Have I got this right:
If my gt grandfather was Hans Jacobsen Hansen then:
Hans was his real name, Jacobsen would be his last name and Hansen was a farm?
Or would his middle name with 'en' on the end mean he was a second born son? I am so confused with this, can someone please help me? |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 02/11/2006 : 08:50:04
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Hi,
Hans Jacobsen Hansen is for sure a confusing name, especially for a man living in those days. Normally, he should have been named Hans Jacobsen or Hans Hansen. But not both. And Hansen is for sure not a farm name.
His name might have been altered with after his death?
Having lastnames of both Jacobsen and Hansen makes it hard to figure out his father's name too... it must be Jacob or Hans, but which one is it?
The most likely theori is that his father was Jacob Hansen.
Then Hans would be a Hans Jacobsen. In the end of the 19. century, this naming convention faded out, and people started to use farm names or just their fathers last name as a family name. Maybe then your Hans Jacobsen added his fathers lastname Hansen to his own name...
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Edited by - jwiborg on 02/11/2006 08:51:07 |
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
3351 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2006 : 13:26:17
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I have to doubt that a name like Hans Jacobsen Hansen was found on any Norwegian document. Was that on something created later in Australia? A document by or about someone other than "Hans Jacobsen Hansen" like the son you've previously mentioned? During that son's lifetime or after his death?
Previously Kragerø, Telemark was proposed as a possible original Norwegian location for you to research. Kragerø is/was a port and it is possible that a young man MIGHT have been a crew member on a ship. I've found Norwegian relatives of my own who started their careers on the sea at the age of 15 or so.
You've started another thread about the same family? If you were to continue an earlier related thread (hopefully one of those with background information already available) that thread will automatically move to the top of the forum listings again and we will all know there is a new entry to be read. |
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Richard Schumacher
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 02/11/2006 : 21:17:30
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Most of these cases seem to occur when people immigrate to a new area with different naming conventions.
I had an identical(?) situation to what Jan Peter described.
My great-grandfather was known in the U.S. as Hans Christianson Hanson. His father was Kristian Hansen Løsnesmyhren(sp?) from Ringebu. He immigrated in 1884. According to the family, sometime after his father arrived in the U.S. (1884), he used Hans (given name) Christianson Hanson since people thought his last name should be the same as his father's. References to him in Norwegian records refer to him as Hans Kristiansen.
It makes life interesting.
Dick
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