Christian Lars Jourgensen

[Lars Johannessen]

Obituary from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 03 Oct 1895:

 

[Ian White-Thomson]

Thanks, I had this one. Sounds like a good man! I don't have a single photo of him.

[Ian White-Thomson]

On 3/20/2020 at 9:54 AM, Ian White-Thomson said:

Great! I'm patient! One plus is that if there was a marriage, the fact that it was to a foreigner may be a bit unusual. (What was she doing in Norway, I wonder.) Of course, from the British end Brown and Smith are the classic common names!

I don't know if the church books came out in spite of the pandemic. (And I hope you are all well!) I have no new information except that my Norwegian DNA apparently comes from Nordland. This is probably not much help, but may be a little!

[Ian White-Thomson]

Can we take one more shot at this? My gt-gt-grandmother Anna Margrete (=Ann Margaret?) was born in Norway but a British citizen. I wonder what her father was doing there, and how she met Jourgensen. Perhaps he was a minister, or something to do with shipping?  I'm thinking that they did marry, since had it been just an affair she would probably not have used his name, especially after marrying Leckey. One can then speculate that Jourgensen died pretty soon afterwards (death notice?) and Anna and her baby needed support. Perhaps she went back to family in England and met Leckey there, but perhaps she met him in Norway (he was a sailor). If she did, she may have married him in Norway before going home, so a possible Leckey-Jourgensen marriage? This is all speculation, but it may be worth a look, and I'd be very grateful for your help.