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- **NOTE: the order of her names changes on the documents. Supposition: Perhaps she preferred to be called by her second name, Johanne, so that as she was know by that, that is what was put on her death certificate.
Birth certificate reads: Name: Karen Johanne Mathilde Petersen
Born:Svendborg, Danmark
Gender:«tab»Female
Birth Date:«tab»05 Dec 1857
Father's Name:«tab»Hansine Kirstine Durer
Mother's Name:«tab»Niels Christiansen
«i»Obviously the minister got the names entered int he wrong places. Perhaps this was done deliberately to show the mother was respnsible for the child for beside her name it says "unmarried"«/i».
«i»There is also a note saying that in 1872 her name was corrected to "Petersen"«/i»
Source: "Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGDJ-F1KM : 16 March 2018), Karen Johanne Mathilde Petersen, ; Birth, 05 Dec 1857, 5619, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.
**NOTE: the order of her names changes on the documents. Supposition: Perhaps she preferred to be called by her second name, Johanne, so that as she was know by that, that is what was put on her death certificate.
Thanks to Frida De Villiers Hagelberg for translating notes on the biirth certificate::
The mother was "Ugift" - unmarried and this might explain the different surnames. Last column notes:" Ifølge Kgl.(Kongelige) Bevilling af 5 April 1872 maa hun bære navnet."(According to the Royal Grant of 5 April 1872 she is allowed the names) of Karen Johanne Mathilde Petersen. ... her Confirmation image ... - you will see that that took place in "Paaske 1872" - Easter 1872 - and the Royal grant was 5 april 1872 around Easter time).
1870 Census, Denmark
Name: «b»Karn Johann Matilde Pedersen «/b»when she is recorded living with her mother and «b»Jorgen Risthnitz Pedersen«/b» in Kirkeby, Sunds, Svendborg,
Denmark Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLDM-X54X : 15 October 2017), Hansine Kristine Dreier in entry for Christof Jorgen Risthnitz Pedersen, Kirkeby, Sunds, Svendborg, Danmark; from "1870 Denmark Census," database and images, MyHeritage ( https://www.myheritage.com : 2016), film 0096; citing Rigsarkivet, København, Danmark (National Archives, Copenhagen, Denmark). [copy in Petersen file]
on the birth certificate (in German but with no identifying number or heading) gives her name as Karla Johanna Matilde born Petersen
Name taken from the death certificate of her daughter, Alma.
**Name on England Marriage register is Karen Johanna M Hansen [name order reversed]
From Johanne`s death certificate we find the name of her first husband and that he died in 1893. The marriage to Dr David took place in 1904, so that gives us an approximate date that they left for South Africa. However there is a notation on the death certificate that says` both parties were domiciled in South Africa at the time of their marriage.` Going by the information on Dr David's declaration that he had been living in the Cape Colony for 8 years in 1900, he, at least, arrived in South Africa in 1892. Did this mean that the two of them left almost immediately after the death of Johanne's first husband? And why did they return to England to get married and not do so in the Cape?
Were they living together as man and wife but not married? Among the magazines that Dr Albert David complained about not having received in 1902 was a fashion magazine that it is unlikely he would have read, so Johanne was wwith him! They only got married in London in 1904, two years later.
The death certificate also names a child by Dr Albert David who was already "of age" (21) who went by the same name. Although she died in Queenstown the certificate states that her usual place of residence was Elliotdate, Transkeian Territories, South Africa.
The death certificate was signed by her husband, Dr Albert David who was present at her death.
According to Chloris David/Edey: "[Karen Johanna]...was taken to Queenstown when she broke a hip. she was at Everton for some weeks and she died there"
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1857 - 1932 (74 years)
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