Jørgen Thomsen migrated from Denmark to the United States.
Jurgen Christjan Thomsen was born in August 1834 in Hjorring, Denmark.[1][2]
He married Martine Nielsen on October 21,1860, in Hjorring, Denmark.[3] They had one surviving son, Thomas, born in 1861.
According to the 1870 census, he was a boot and shoe maker.
The family emigrated from Denmark to the US in 1868[4], where they changed the spelling of their name to 'Thompson'. They settled on a farm in Montgomery County, Kansas, not far from Coffeyville.
He died a few years later, in 1871, in Kansas at the young age of 37, likely from polycystic kidney disease, which plagued many of his descendants.[5]
Genealogy Notes
Birth notice lists father: Thomas Laursen and mother Johanne Marie Kaas[6]
Sources
↑ Year: 1870; Census Place: Parker, Montgomery, Kansas; Roll: M593_439; Page: 625B; Image: 16915; Family History Library Film: 545938; Source Information: Title: 1870 United States Federal Census; Publisher: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; 2009; Provo, UT, USA
↑ Rigsarkivet; Danmark; Kontraministerialbog; Reference: 8030740051; Year Range: 1862-1884. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Denmark, Church Records, 1812-1918 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2019.
Original data: Kontraministerialbog 1812-1918, Rigsarkivet, Danmark. Witnesses were Lars Christian Thomsen and Christian Christiansen.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jørgen by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jørgen: