PEDERSEN, Mette Petrea

   Et andet navn for Mette var PEDERSEN, Petrea.

  Notater:

Birth: Page 17.
A daughter of Peder Christensen Birk (1830) and Elisabeth Pedersdatter (1829).

Sister Maria Columba, Colorado, 2021:

"I didn't know much about Petrea, Jes's wife, but she was from Ikast. What little information we had of her was from Lola Frimann, the widow of Jes's youngest son, Claude. My mother corresponded with her long ago, and she wrote what she had heard from her sisters-in-law, Bess and Rebecca. Petrea had apparently signed up with an agency that brought young people to America to work for people who had jobs for them, usually as servants or farm hands, but Lola knew nothing of Petrea's family except that she had come with a relative that she knew as "Uncle Louie Hansen". I suppose that some of the other unlabelled pictures are Petrea's family."

"A letter was written to Bess Frimann (Jes Frimann's eldest daughter in Omaha) in 1960 by "Cousin Anna" Jacobsen, telling about the death of her sister, Maria. Maria had established an orphanage for Armenian orphans called the Bird's Nest, and Anna had been there helping her. My cousin Jane (Jes's great-granddaughter) told me about her, and I was surprised that I had never heard of her. We did not know how she was related to us, and it was one of the questions that I had meant to ask you. I learned from the internet who her parents were, Jens Jacobsen and Ane Kristine Pedersen, but none of them seemed to fit in anywhere. However, in the last batch of pictures that my niece found and sent, there was the picture of the mystery lady. On the back, someone had written: "Mama's sister Stina Jacobsen Cousin Maria's mother". The picture was taken at Silkeborg, H.C. Larsen being the photographer. I believe the writing is Bess Frimann's. So Maria and Anna Jacobsen were the daughters of Jes Frimann's wife's sister, Anne Kirstine Pedersen, related to the Frimanns only by marriage. I think this is correct."

  Om :

• FT-1860, 01.02.1860, Præstegårdens Mark, Ikast Sogn, hus.

• Konfirmation, 07.03.1869, Ikast Kirke, Ikast Sogn, Hammerum Herred, Ringkøbing Amt. Side 5. Præstegårdens Mark.

• FT-1870, 01.02.1870, Ikast Sogn, Lægdsgård. A servant at Jens Nicolai Christian Wistoft, a farmer.

• FT-1880, 01.02.1880, Flensted By, Låsby Sogn, hus. 25 years old. Unmarried. On the list together with her sister Anne Kirstine, 22 years old, married. They are absent, having a temporary stay in ?

Mette blev gift med Jes Jacobsen FRIMANN, søn af Jacob Jacobsen FRIMANN og Maren Iversdatter HALD, den 02.06.1882 i Howard, Nebraska, USA. (Jes Jacobsen FRIMANN blev født den 22.12.1854 i Stenderup, Sønder Stenderup Sogn, Nørre Tyrstrup Herred, Vejle Amt, dåb den 27.12.1854 i Sønder Stenderup Kirke, Sønder Stenderup Sogn, Nørre Tyrstrup Herred, Vejle Amt og døde i 1936 i Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, USA.)