Hans Peder Hansens ( b. 01.05.1829)
Children:
Edeline
Hansen and Bodil Kirstine
Hansen both died before they were 2 years of age.
Hans Peder Hansen Novrup, born
05.03.1861 (the writer). Now that I have
reached the age where my occupation has come to an end, it seems to be allowed
to write a bit about myself. When I was
5 years old, I had an accident. I
stumbled and broke my ankle.
Unfortunately, the leg did not heal properly, and my ankle got
stiff. Because of that, my leg would not
grow as the other leg. My father took me
to Kolsnap in North Slesvig,
where there was a farmer Poulsen, who had a permit to
work as a leg specialist. (He was the
father of a very well known doctor in Vamdrup). My leg began to grow, but I had to go through
very painful treatments. Every day for
the entire summer, my bad leg was whipped with nettles I have used the
same cure later to strengthen my leg.
When I reached confirmation age, I decided that I wanted to be a
teacher. I received some lessons and
practice with the teacher H. H. Sørensen in Veldbæk. In
September, 1876, I passed my examination with the pastor at Assens
in Jerne.
My papers said
that I could work as a teacher for the youngest students, at that time I was
only 15½ years old. On 31. January 1877
I got a job as winter teacher in Vrenderup, Fåborg County. (In
the old days in Denmark, the children only went to school in the winter). There were 39 children in one class, in all
ages from 6 to 14½ years. They were nice
children and my work was successful even though the teacher was only 1½ years
older than the oldest student.
The next
two winters I stayed in Vrenderup. I got board and lodging with Hans Mortensen
in Helle; he treated me like his son. I paid him 80 kr,
from my wages of 200 kr. There were 3 Danish miles (23 km) from Vrenderup
to Novrup, and those I had to walk every time I would
visit my family.
When I finished
school at 4 on Saturday afternoon and began my walk home, I’d first be with my
family at bedtime. So, it often was only
Christmas, Shrovetide, and Easter when I visited them.
At that time,
the job of winter teacher for the oldest children in Hyllerslev
was a better paid one. I got that job on
20 October 1879, but I was only there for one winter because I wanted to go to
college. During the summers of 1878 and
1879 I was a student at the new school for teachers in Hoven. On 1 September 1880 I went to Gedved College and went directly in to the second grade
there. In 1882 I passed my examinations
with very good grades.
When I started
college, there were 200 students, and there was another student named Hans Peder Hansen. The
principal P Boysen asked me to take a surname, and I
chose the name of my home town Novrup. When the name law came in Denmark, I got to
keep the name.
On 1 November
1882, I got employment as the winter teacher at Esbjerg
school. At that time it had 4 classes
with 2 teachers.
On 28. November
of the same year, I was called to Nordby School on Fanø, where I stayed until 20. July 1886. Then I went to Lyngså
near Sæby in north Jutland.
At that time,
the first cooperative dairies were begun.
I started work to build one in Lyngså, which
was a big village at that time. There
were 30 farms and small farms, and the dairy succeeded in the summer of
1888. I was the manager’s first
assistant. There was one Danish mile to
the nearest church in Albæk and we began the work to
build a church in Lyngså, where I was manager. The church was finished in 1902.
My wish was to
return home, and on the 11. August 1892 I got a job as first teacher and church
cantor in Alslev near Varde. Here I worked for 35 years, until I retired
on 31. October 1927. In the summer of
1927, we built our house in Alslev.
On 5.
October 1886 I married Oliane Madsen, a daughter of Mads Bojsen and Jessine Kirstine Carstensen from S. Hebo in Janderup Sogn. She gave birth to
4 children: Viggo, Hans, Kristian
and Astrid – the first 3 of them were born in Lyngså
school, and the last one in Alslev School.
My wife died
from typhoid fever the 17. July 1894, and Kristian
died from croup 24. December 1896.
My mother, who
had sold the farm, then helped me with the house tasks, until 10. October 1899
when I married Andrea Bondesen, daughter of the
farmer Hans Bondesen and Kirsten Christensen, from Toftnæs.
She gave birth
to Anna, Johannes, Leo and Karsten. Karsten was born with an organic heart disease, and never
got well. He died 22. July 1923, 12½ years old.
Beside my school
work I have interests in a lot of things. In my young days, my political
interest was in the work from Venstre, and I was in the executive committee for some
years in Sæby, near Lyngså.
As a beekeeper, I have been a member of the board for Ribe
amts Beekeeper society for 25 years.
Edeline Kirstine Hansen born 14.01.1864, went in her young days too Lyngså to work in her brother’s house,. She there met the
storekeeper Laurids Peder Møller, and they married in 1888.
Christen Biltoft
Hansen born
16.04.1866 went, in1884 to Hoven winter teacher
school, where he in 1885 got his degree at dean Valeur
in Guldager.
The same fall he started as a winter teacher in Frøstrup
and Lunde schools. In the summer of 1887 he went to Esbjerg college, but he never graduated. He then took work
as a winter teacher in Veldbæk, and in 1892 he bought
Rindum Nygaard near Ringkøbing. In that
year he married Mathilde Hvobøl
from Bønstrupgaard in Vamdrup
sogn.
After her
death in 1899 he married Laura Kristine Knudsen from Ringkøbing
in 1902.
Jens Kirkeby Hansen born 04.01.1869 got the farm in Novrup, which he sold to Jensen after a few years, and
started a business as haulage contractor in Esbjerg.
In 1893 he married Hansine Pedertrine
Hansen from Allerup.
Ane Stine Hansen
born 10.04.1871 got married to farmer Søren Hansen in
Novrup. A stroke of lightning burned down the farm.
They built up a new farm. They later exchanged it for a haulage contractor in Esbjerg, and later exchanged that for a farm in Lunderskov.
Later Søren started as a storekeeper in Jerne,
but it never went well. He then bought a farm in Tjereborg,
where he started a gravel pit.
Ane Kirstine Nielsen Hansen born 19.02.1874 took a business
education. She started work with her brother in law in Lyngså,
and at a draper shop in Hjørring. She then later
started working at a storekeeper in Hals. He opened a
store in Vester Hassing,
where she was manager, and later in a store in Dronninglund.
After some
years she bought a draper store in Hjallerup, which
she sold because of bad health. She later tried again with a draper store in Aalborg, but had to stop because of bad health. She then
returned to Jerne.
Anton Peder Vedsted Hansen born 28.09.1876 also went to Lyngså, to get an education as a storekeeper. He later bought a coffee shop in Esbjerg,
but it did not go well, and he sold it and went to America. He later went back
to Denmark, to work as a manager in a store in Esbjerg.
He later started a wood wool factory, that he later made into a cardboard box
factory.
In 1910 he
married Anna Friis Sørensen
from Esbjerg.
Laurids Christian Andreas Hansen born 20.02.1879 was named after his father’s friend, the storekeeper Laurids Christensen from Sønderho
Kro. He started at Esbjerg
college, and got his degree in 1896. He than went to København
to be a veterinarian, and he graduated 1. February 1902.
That 28.
October he started as a veterinarian in Esbjerg, and
in 1905 he started at Esbjerg slaughter house as a
veterinarian. In 1904 he married Dagmar Sofia Pors from Esbjerg.
Viggo Novrup born 06.11.1887 After he served his military
service, he started at Jonstrup collage in 1909, and
he got his degree in 1912. That same
year he started working as a teacher in Astrup near Århus. In 1914 he
started in Sejstrup and cantor in Hundrup
near Ribe.
In 1917 he moved
to Tulstrup near Århus as
1. teacher and cantor.
Hans Peder Hansen Novrup born 10.05.1889 was a student
at Askov school.
Later he became winter teacher, at Kodbøl
school in Borris sogn, and
went in 1908 to Jonstrup College, were he got his
degree in 1911. His first job was as 2. teacher in Lundtofte,
Lyngby sogn, he stayed
there until 1916, when he started as a teacher and church cantor in Maaløv. Here he also worked as a teacher at Jonstrup college. He later got a job at Tønder
College. He teaches writing, reading, and math. He was coauthor
of a math book.
Astrid Hansen Novrup born 12.10 1893 took her college
degree as a teacher in Rønne on Bornholm,
and started working in Århus as a teacher. After that she got an education as a
missionary. In 1924 she started working in Frue kirke in Aalborg, and 8. August
same year she went to China as a missionary.
She had a station in Chinchou and Petuna in Manchuria.
Anna Novrup born 16.03.1902 started in 1920 at Tønder collage, and took the first part of her teacher
degree, but had to stop because of an illness. She was than a winter teacher in
Kokspang for 3 winters, when she married teacher Aage Nemming in Espergærde in 1927.
Johannes Bondesen Novrup Born 05.04.1904. When he was 13 years old, he got accepted at Ribe college, and graduated the summer of 1922. At the university he studied Literary
history, and went on a trip to universities in Wien ,
Innsbrück and Paris. He later got work at the
international college in Helsingør.
In 1927 he
married Signe Marie Bodholt
Holst, from Cedar Fallas
Iowa; she was born 2. November 1892.
Kristen Leo Novrup born 10.01.1907 has an education as
a conservator.