Hans Pedersen ¹

   Other names for Hans were Hans Pedersen Hollet and Hans Pedersen.

  General Notes:

From a letter by Donald Johnson (son of Marine Johnson) to Ardis Johnson Bynum on 5 June 1979:

"My great grandfather, Hans Pedersen Hollet, apparently was, for those times, a well-to-do man on the island of Laeso. He was 32 years older than my great grandmother Mette Kirstine Christensdatter, who was born about 1792. So my guess is that when Mette Kirstine died, her daughter's (Ane Cathrine) share of the estate was enough to enable her to buy the holdings at Hov. In 1866 Mette K. would have been 74 years old, and it may have taken a year or more to settle the estate, as there were five children born of this marriage. This is just a guess, but it does make sense that grandpa Jens Christian Jensen didn't get rich farming and fishing; or, at least, as readily as the Hollets could with their milling and timbering business."

  Research Notes:

Hans Pedersen and Mette Cathrine Christensdatter are recorded as parents of Ane Cathrine Hansdatter in the Dronninglund Church record for Ane Cathrine's marriage to Jens Christen on 20 Jun 1851. ²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: farmer: Laesø, Denmark. ³

Hans married Mette Kirstine Christensdatter, daughter of <Christen> and Unknown. (Mette Kirstine Christensdatter was born in 1792 in Læsø, Nordjylland, Denmark and died about 1866.)