Person ID: I5856884689
Christian Peter Caspersen
25 MAR 1838 – 1928
Male
Events
- Born
- 25 MAR 1838 — Tømmerby, Vester Han, Thisted, Denmark
- Died
- 1928 — Tømmerby, Vester Han, Thisted, Denmark
Parents
Family group sheet →- FatherCasper Josva Preetzmann Larsen Djernes05 MAR 1803 – 12 AUG 1842
- MotherHelene Pedersdatter19 DEC 1813 – 21 FEB 1878
- ChildLars Christian Caspersen25 MAR 1838 – 1925
- ChildChristian Peter Caspersen25 MAR 1838 – 1928
- ChildSophie Karen Kirstine Marie Caspersdatter29 JAN 1842 – 1913
Family
Family group sheet →Married: 1877 — Arup, Vr. Han, Thisted, Denmark
- FatherChristian Peter Caspersen25 MAR 1838 – 1928
Notes
- Christian was the twin brother of Lars Christian Caspersen, was born at Kaerup. According to Cai Mygind's book, witnesses at his baptism included Miss Hude, the vicar's sister-in-law, Ane Marie Larsdatter from Diernesgard, freeholder Lars Chr. Nielsen from Koldkjaergard, Christian Pedersen from Bjerget and bachelor Lars Larsen Djernes. Shortly after his mother married for the second time, Christian, about six or seven years old, became the foster-child of his cousin, Lars Christensen (Fuglsang), innkeeper at Bjeret, and wife Mariane Pedersdatter Rotbol. They were good foster-parents. The Lild Parish Register, FHL MF 0053228, pages 85 and 86, show that Christian and his twin brother Lars were confirmed at T²mmerby Church on the same day, April 8, 1852, at the age of 14. Christian's residence was listed as Bjerget. In 1854, according to Cai Mygind, at about 16 years of age, Christian left for Thisted to be apprenticed to a shopkeeper, as his foster father thought there was no future in farming for him. After his apprenticeship, he got a job with merchant Tomas Dige at Oslos. Dige sent him to Thorup Strand to administer a branch shop there, including small craft trade with Norway. Sometime later, Christian went to Arup and opened a shop of his own. He met and married Ane Marie Jepsen in Arup, and their first child was born there. Around 1878 Christian's foster father sent for him to take over Nedergard, a farm at Tommerby which Lars Fuglsang had purchased. Christian moved his family there, also taking in sister Marie' s child Karoline Thomsen. Christian opened a general store at one end of the farmhouse and worked the farm at the same time with the help of a farmhand and a maid. Christian was too free with credit, and eventually gave up the store, working the farm himself. Christian and Ane joined the growing Grundtvigian movement of free communities in Hanherred, and in 1881 Christian founded a free school in T²mmerby. During World War I, he delegated the farm to his son Kristian, and Christian and Ane moved into a little apartment where their store had once been. After Ane died in 1923, Christian moved with daughter Kathrine across the street into an old thatched house called Gammel Tuenhus. He died there in 1928 at the age of 90.