Hi Robbie Some time ago when my cousin's son was on business in Denmark, his Danish name drew the attention of the person with whom he had an appointment. He enquired about it and my cousin's son told him that his ggrandparemts came from Schleswig, but that was all he knew. The businessman said his mother could read the old Danish script and that she would see if she could find out anything. She gave him one page of the census with my grandfather at the age of 4 and his parents, Carl Hansen PETERSEN and Ingeborg ANDRESEN or ANDERSEN. That is all the information I have on the matter. Recently I have been in touch with a Danish woman who has kindly found the marriage of my gt grandmother who married Christian NIELSEN at Ensted and gave me the details together with the birthdates of both of them. It is rather difficult in New Zealand to find out anything - especially when I cannot speak Danish. My Danish grandparents arrived in New Zealand about 1880 and married in New Zealand in 1882. They were Peter PETERSEN and Anna Catherina NIELSEN. They did not teach their children any Danish. Iris from Auckland, New Zealand