"Lars Erik Bryld" <larserik@dadlnet.invalid> skrev i en meddelelse news:9rgxjxui1x0c.dlg@lebryld.fqdn... > Scripsit A Bennett: > > > This is exactly right. Jens is the danish name for John? > > I believe so. The biblical form in Danish is Johannes, but more often > John, Johs, Johan and (maybe) Jens is used. Jens is extremely common > in Danish. The previously posted record said the parents lived in > Studsdal and the father was a boarder (lejehusmand). > > Here are some more things. The census record for Taulov 1860: > > http://www.bryld.suite.dk/taulov2.tiff > > Hard to read, but I see Jens Brandt Koch age 26 born in Fredericia, > his wife Ane Christensen age 29 born in Freide(??) S. (Sogn=Parish), > Hans J?? Jensen age 5 born in Nørup S. and Christian Jensen age 3 born > in Taulov S. > > Now looking at Trinity Church in the city of Fredericia for 1834 i > found: > > http://www.bryld.suite.dk/jenskoch.tiff > > > Jens Brandt Koch born 21 Nov 1833 Bapt 25 Dec 1833 in the church, > under parents: Mother Marie Susanne Dupont ?? Jens Brand Koch i Greis, > then something I can't really read in Gothic Cursive, uden Ægteskab [without marriage] > and as > godparents a lot of Duponts. Sponsors: - Mademoiselle Olempe Bichi Dupont [in the 1834 Fredericia census there is an Olempe Dupont, 19 years, daugther of Mathias Dupont, a day-labourer living no 64 Kongensgade] - Skolelærer [teacher] Peter Dupont - Schach Dupont - Schach Hermann her i byen [in this town] > > Don't take my word for it, but I get the feeling he was born out of > wedlock. > Mother and child can be found in the 1834 census in Fredericia, and she is NOT married: = = => All persons in the household vejle, Elbo, Fredericia Købstad, Jyllandsgade No 311b, , 2den Familie, 365, FT-1834 Following fields are shown: Name, Age, Marital status, Position in household, Occupation Peter Dupont, 37, Gift, , Skolelærer wed den Reformerte Menighed, [married, , teatcher at the Reformed Church] Catharine Dupont, 32, Gift, , hans Kone, [married, , his wife] Jacob Dupont, 6, Ugift, , deres Børn, [unmarried, , their children] Marie Dupont, 4, Ugift, , deres Børn, Caroline Dupont, 1, Ugift, , deres Børn, Marie Susanne Dupont, 21, Ugift, , Logerende, [unmarried, , lodger] Jens Brandt Koch, 1, Ugift, , hendes Søn, [unmarried, , her son] <= = = Peter Dupont was one of the godparents. Acording to the 1834 census Marie Susanne Dupont was born around 1813. On Familysearch can be found a Marie Susanne Dupont born 25 Aug 1812 in Fredericia as the daughter of Francois Dupont and Cathrine Vilain Dupont. Dead 29 Jul 1859 in Taulov. And she has a younger sister, Olympe Dupont born 18 Jun 1814, dead 21 Jun 1899. Familysearch also says that this Marie Susanne Dupont was married on 11 Dec 1832 to Jacob Feut born 30 Oct 1807 in Fredericia. But in the Fredericia 1834 census there are only two Jacob Feuts, father and son. The father is 54 years old and married to Cathrine Hermann and the son is unmarried!!, 27 years old (born ca 1807). = = => All persons in the household vejle, Elbo, Fredericia Købstad, Jyllandsgade No 311c, , een Familie, 367, FT-1834 Following fields are shown: Name, Age, Marital status, Position in household, Occupation Jacob Feut, 54, Gift, , Awlsmand, [farmer] Chatrine Hermann, 53, Gift, , hans Kone, Jacob Feut, 27, Ugift, , deres Børn, Hans Feut, 24, Ugift, , deres Børn, Lotte Feu, 18, Ugift, , deres Børn, Charlotte Feber, 84, Enke, , nyder ophold af Sønnen, Huusfaderen, [widow, , recieve board and lodging from her son, the master of the house] <= = = The name Dupont is of French origin. Before the first Danish constitution in 1849 there was no freedom of religion in Denmark. It was only in a few towns - among them Fredericia - that people were allowed to live without beeing members of the Danish Lutheran Church. In Fredericia there was - and still are - meny members of the Reformed Church. Fredericia also had a synagog. In 1685 the French king repealed the Edict of Nantes which had allowed the huguenots (members of the Reformed Church) to live in a number of secure cities in France. The persecution of the huguenots that followed led many to take refuge in the electorate Brandenburg, Germany. In the 1720's The Danish king Frederik IV invited a number of huguenot families from Brandenburg to settle in Fredecicia. The above Duponts and Hermanns are probably descendents of those families. -- Regards, Helmer Christiansen

Scripsit Helmer Christiansen (Oncable.dk): > Mother and child can be found in the 1834 census in Fredericia, and > she is NOT married: Furthermore, the child's father Jens Brandt Koch (Sr.) can be found in Greis parish further north. In the 1840 census he's unmarried and in 1845 he's married. He was born in the same parish in 1809, baptised 12 Mar that year, and he inherited his father's cloth mill -- Med venlig hilsen Lars Erik Bryld