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Note: Notes for Lars Jensen: The 1834 Danish census had an effective date of February eighteenth. Listed were Lars Jensen, 30; his wife Maren Danielsdatter, 30; their son Daniel Larsen, 4; son Jens Larsen, 2; son Peder Larsen, 1; an unrelated 15-year-old girl; and a 59-year-old widowed woman named Karen Kirstine Hansdatter, who was listed as a "Aftægtskone", which means a woman who was cared for by people who took over her farm or house. They lived in the village of Sankt. (Saint) Jørgensbjerg, in Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish, in the Sømme District, in Roskilde County, Denmark. After the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, that location is now within the city limits of the city of Roskilde, in Roskilde Municipality, in Region Zealand, in eastern Denmark.
The 1845 Danish census had an effective date of February first. Listed were Lars Jensen, 42, a farmer; his wife Maren Danielsdatter, 42; their son Daniel Larson, 15; daughter I. Mette Marie Larsdatter, 9; son Hans Larsen, 8; daughter Karen Kirstine Larsdatter, 8; daughter Maren Kirstine Larsdatter, 1; and Karen Kirstine Hansdatter, 70, a widow, the same woman who was living with the family in the 1834 census. She was again listed as a woman who was cared for by people who took over her farm or house. They lived about one kilometer from their 1834 location in Sankt Jørgensbjerg. They lived in Margrethehåb, in Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish, in the Sømme District, in Roskilde County, Denmark.
Lars Jensen was listed as being born in Hegnede, in Borup Parish, in the Ramsø Disrtrict, in Roskilde County, Denmark. His wife Maren was born in the largest city in Denmark, København (Copenhagen). The children were all born in Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish, in the Sømme District, in Roskilde County, Denmark. Karen Kirstine Hansdatter was just listed as being born in Roskilde County, Denmark.
The 1850 Danish census had an effective date of February first. Listed were Lars Jensen, 46, a farmer; his wife Maren Danielsdatter, 47; their son Daniel Larson, 20; son Jens Larsen, 19; daughter Mette Marie Larsdatter, 14; daughter Karen Kirstine Larsdatter, 11; daughter Maren Kirstine Larsdatter, 5; son Ole Larsen, 3; and Karen Kirstine Hansdatter, 75, a widow, the same woman who was living with the family previously. She was again listed as a woman who was cared for by people who took over her farm or house. They lived in the town of Sankt Jørgensbjerg, in Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish. Their birthplaces were listed the same as the 1845 census.
The 1855 census for Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish isn't available online. It may not exist at all.
The 1860 Danish census had an effective date of February first. The family still lived in Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish. Listed were Lars Jensen, 56, a farmer, and his wife Maren Danielsdatter, 57, (although her last name was either mis-written or mis-transcribed as Davidsdatter). Their son Ole Larsen, 13, was also listed. The couple also had their daughter Karen Kirstine listed with the surname of Larsen instead of Larsdatter as it was previously. That may have been a mistake, or it was deliberate.
Prior to about 1860 all the Scandinavian countries used a form of patronymics. The given name of a father was used as a surname for each of the children. The sons used the father's given name and a suffix that meant "son" and the daughter's used the father's given name and a suffix meaning "daughter".
From about 1860-1904 the naming customs in each of these countries were changing from this system of patronymics that was used for hundreds of years, to the type of system used in the rest of Europe and the United States, where the surname was passed from a father to his children.
The 1870 census for Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish is not available online. It may not exist at all. 1870 census records from some other Parishes in the Sømme District, in Roskilde County, do exist and are available online, but Lars Jensen isn't listed in any of them. So he either was still living in Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish, or he had died by the time of the 1870 census.
The 1880 census for Sankt Jørgensbjerg Parish is online, but Lars Jensen isn't listed there, or anywhere else in the Sømme District, in Roskilde County. He had probably died before then.
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