MY NORWEGIAN FAMILY
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My great-great-grandfather - Jørgen Tandberg Ebbesen - was a
prominent man in He was
as a doctor asked to move to Sandefjord in 1839 to
help a newly established spa (Sandefjord kurbad). He succeeded in doing this, and at he same time
helped Sandefjord develop from a small collection
of houses to a city. He was many times mayor of the town, and was involved in
all aspects of the towns political, social, cultural
and commercial affairs. |
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Henriette Sophie Ebbesen (b.Frisak)
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1812-1887 |
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1811-1888 |
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(1 of 11 children) |
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(1 of 11 children) |
He and
his wife both came from families with many children. They had 11 children, of
which:
my great-grandmother ( Abigael "Billa" Forchhammer - 1840-1888) had 13 children - thus being the main
contributor to the Forchhammer family.
a sister ( "Hanna" Magdalena Castberg -
1839-1881) also had 13 children
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another sister ( Petrea Wilhelmine "Mina" Poulsen -
1851-??) had 8 children
and
a brother ( Just Bing Ebbesen - 1847-19??) had 10 children.
Even
though the rest of the children died young or remained childless, this couple
thus ended up with
44 grandchildren
Going
back 5 generations from Henriette Sophie Ebbesen, we find the following pair:
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Ole Gløersen and his wife had 7 children,and together with his
sister who had 5 children started the Gløersen-family
- which in a genealogy from 1929 included 2906 direct descendants. Of
these 38 belong to the Forchhammer branch |
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ca. 1673 - 1734 |
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Sidsel Cathrine Gløersen (b.Hage) ca.1675 - 1760 |
Going
even further back - 9 generations and 300 years from Sidsel
Cathrine Gløersen - we find
an impressive woman:
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This lady was one of the wealthiest and most influential people of her
time. Two
marriages left her with 18 (eighteen) children and large estates in the
northern part of Her
family tree was published in 1924 - but in a very
abbreviated form, concentrating on the main "branches". Still
the tree includes 2159 persons - of which only one is a Forchhammer
- Abigael "Billa"
Forchhammer - mentioned above. |
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1385-1479 |
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