Mette Petrea PEDERSEN

Født 12 Oct 1854 Vådde, Ikast Sogn, Hammerum Herred, Ringkøbing Amt

Død 1935 Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, USA

Fødsel 12 Oct 1854 Vådde, Ikast Sogn, Hammerum Herred, Ringkøbing Amt

Dåb 19 Nov 1854 Ikast Kirke, Ikast Sogn, Hammerum Herred, Ringkøbing Amt

FT-1860 1 Feb 1860 Præstegårdens Mark, Ikast Sogn, hus

Konfirmation 7 Mar 1869 Ikast Kirke, Ikast Sogn, Hammerum Herred, Ringkøbing Amt

FT-1870 1 Feb 1870 Ikast Sogn, Lægdsgård

FT-1880 1 Feb 1880 Flensted By, Låsby Sogn, hus

Død 1935 Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, USA

Birth: Page 17.
A daughter of Peder Christensen Birk (1830) and Elisabeth Pedersdatter (1829).

Sister Maria Columba, Colorado, 2021:

'I didn't know much about Petrea, Jes's wife, but she was from Ikast. What little information we had of her was from Lola Frimann, the widow of Jes's youngest son, Claude. My mother corresponded with her long ago, and she wrote what she had heard from her sisters-in-law, Bess and Rebecca. Petrea had apparently signed up with an agency that brought young people to America to work for people who had jobs for them, usually as servants or farm hands, but Lola knew nothing of Petrea's family except that she had come with a relative that she knew as 'Uncle Louie Hansen'. I suppose that some of the other unlabelled pictures are Petrea's family.'

'A letter was written to Bess Frimann (Jes Frimann's eldest daughter in Omaha) in 1960 by 'Cousin Anna' Jacobsen, telling about the death of her sister, Maria. Maria had established an orphanage for Armenian orphans called the Bird's Nest, and Anna had been there helping her. My cousin Jane (Jes's great-granddaughter) told me about her, and I was surprised that I had never heard of her. We did not know how she was related to us, and it was one of the questions that I had meant to ask you. I learned from the internet who her parents were, Jens Jacobsen and Ane Kristine Pedersen, but none of them seemed to fit in anywhere. However, in the last batch of pictures that my niece found and sent, there was the picture of the mystery lady. On the back, someone had written: 'Mama's sister Stina Jacobsen Cousin Maria's mother'. The picture was taken at Silkeborg, H.C. Larsen being the photographer. I believe the writing is Bess Frimann's. So Maria and Anna Jacobsen were the daughters of Jes Frimann's wife's sister, Anne Kirstine Pedersen, related to the Frimanns only by marriage. I think this is correct.'