The HANSEN/THYSON Family
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C. L. HANSEN
(1833 - 1892) m.
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KATHERINE JORGINA HANSEN (1833
- 1912)
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MUELLER THYSON Parents: Unknown Mueller Thyson was a blacksmith. He served in the Prussian army. He advised his son to go to Denmark to avoid being drafted. Children of Muller Thyson:
photo: Mueller Thyson and his wife |
KATHERINE JORGINA HANSEN'S PARENTS All I have of them is this photo. |
C. L. HANSEN (1833 - 1892) and KATHERINE JORGINA HANSEN (1833-1912)
Parents: Mueller Thyson
C. L. Hansen was born on 7 Nov 1833. [Ref, gravestone] He died on 17 Jan 1892. [Ref][Ref gives only the year][Ref, gravestone] He married Katherine Jorgina Hansen on 7 Nov 1860. [Ref] C.L. and Katherine are buried in the Arndahl cemetery in Grove City, Meeker, Minnesota. [Ref][Ref][letter from granddaughter Ruby, dated 17 Mar 1976] Click here to see a photo of his gravestone. C. L. took his wife's last name. Katherine Jorgina (Gina) was born on 15 Dec 1833 in Denmark. [Ref][Ref, gravestone] She died on 23 Jun 1912 [Ref, gravestone] and is buried next to her husband in the Arndahl cemetery. [Ref, 1912][Ref, 1912] In 1910 Gena was widowed and living with her daughter Frantsina's family in Seattle. [Ref] After her husband died in 1892, she lived with her daughter Tillie and later with her daughter Frantsina's family in Kalispell and Seattle. While with them, she tripped on her foot stool when her long skirt got caught and broke her hip. The injury resulted in her death. [Ref][Ref] The Hansens emigrated to America in 1866 or 1867 [Ref] with three children. Cholera broke out on the ship and two of them died. When they arrived, their possessions were stolen. [Ref][Ref] A search of the New York passenger lists turns up a C. L. Hansen, born about 1834, who arrived on 22 May 1866 from Liverpool on the Virginia. An examination of the image of the passenger list reveals that he was travelling with a woman whose name is hard to read, but it could well be Gina. She was also born about 1834. They were travelling with a single daughter whose name looks like "Math." Could this be Mathilda? This one-year-old child died in quarantine. The master of the ship was supposed to provide the country that the passengers belonged to, but he [clearly erroneously] listed everyone as either from England, Ireland or America. [Ref] The Virginia sailed from Liverpool to New York, via Queenstown on 4 April 1866 with 14 cabin and 1029 steerage passengers. On board were 220 Germans, Dutch, Danes and Swedes. Cholera broke out and the the first passenger died on 12 April. Betwen then and when the ship arrived in New York on 18 April, 36 steerage passengers and two crew had died. Upon arrival in port, 46 sick passengers were transferred to the hospital ship Falcon. Four days later, the remaining steerage passengers were transferred to the hospital ship Falcon. Four days later, the remaining steerage passengers were transferred to the steamship Illinois; the Virginia was cleaned and chlorinated; all of the passengers clothing, bedding and personal effects were fumigated and steamed. Between landing and the transfer on 22 April, there had been 14 deaths and 99 passengers had been sent to the Falcon. From then until 8 May, when overcrowding on the Illionois led to the return of 230 passengers to the Virginia, six more people died and 97 more passengers were transferred to the Falcon. From then until 30 May, when passengers were released from quarentine, no further cases of cholera occured. [Ref, pp. 271-2] The Virginia belonged to the National Steam Co. Thirty two people died on board the voyage the Hansens were on. Upon arrival, 171 were transferred to hospitals in New York and, of these, 57 died. [Ref] Click here for a description of conditions on board the steamship. The Hansens homesteaded in Danielson, Minnesota on 6 Jul 1866. [Ref][Ref] In 1880 C. L. Hansen, age 46 and a farmer, and his wife Jennie, age 46, lived in Danielson, Meeker, Minnesota. With them lived their children Theodora, age 17, Arnold, age 11, Matilda, age 8, William M., age 7, and Leaverett, age 5. C.L., Jennie and Theodora were said to be born in Denmark; the others in Minnesota. [Ref] Photo: C. L. and Gina Hansen. According to their granddaughter Ruby, Frantsina is the girl in front. Arnold Hansen is on his father's lap and Will Hansen is on his mother's lap. |
Children of C. L. Hansen and Gena Hansen
FRANTSINA HANSEN (abt 1864 - 1914) Parents: C. L. Hansen [Ref] and Katherine Gena Hansen Frantsina Hansen was born about 1864 in Denmark. [Ref] She died on 12 Apr 1914. [Ref][Ref] She married Lars Larsen [Ref] on 21 Sep 1888. [The date is according to her daughter Ruby.] According to her daughter Ruby (letter dated 17 Mar 1976), she was born in Langeland, Denmark. In signing a letter, she spelled her name "Frantsina". [Ref] The Larsens settled on a homestead in Minnesota. [Ref] They later moved to Litchfield, where Frantsina had a millinery store. [Ref][Ref] Later they moved to Kalispel, Montanta and Frantsina took in boarders. [Ref] About two years later they moved to Seattle, where Frantsina had a bakery shop. [Ref] Louis went to Canada to work in a mine owned by Frantsina's brother Arnold. [Ref] Frantsina was unhappy without him and her children paid her train fare for her to go to Canada as well. [Ref] She broke her leg in Oct 1913, or according to her, her ankle, [Ref] in the remote location and it was never set [Ref]; she died shortly thereafter. Frantsina's letters are sent from the "Second Relief". The Second Relief mine is located in a mountain valley 20 kilometres northwest of Salmo, British Columbia. |
Back row: Will, Arnold and Levi; Second row: Gena and C.L. Hansen; First row: Tillie, Frantsina
Photo: Second Relief Mine (used with permission) |
References
Assembly of the State of New York, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, V. 19, 19th Session - 1867, Albany, C. Van Benthuysen & Sons, 1867.
Bureau of the Census, Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Online database: Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2002.
Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1920. T625, 2,076 rolls. Online: Ancestry.com.
Bureau of the Census, Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1880. T9, 1,454 rolls. Online: Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.
Bureau of the Census, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1910.
Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. Online: Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.
Hansen, Frantsina, letters, 1913.
No author, Emigrant Ships and the Cholera: Observations, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, 27 July, 1866, Volume 184, Third Series, Columns 1618 - 1625, CMSIED 9306013.
No author, Spokesman Review, Spokane, 10 Mar 1936, Washington State University library digital collections, various dates.
Larsen, Clarence, memoir
Wolfe, Ruby, memoir