When Christian Peter Severin Christensen was born on 11 May 1841, in Byrum, Læsø, Hjørring, Denmark, his father, Christen Christensen Wanderskrog, was 43 and his mother, Karen Christensdatter, was 29. He married Maren Cathrine Olesdatter Hoyen on 29 October 1869, in Byrum, Læsø, Hjørring, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Børglum, Børglum, Denmark in 1860. He died on 15 June 1874, in Byrum, Læsø, Hjørring, Denmark, at the age of 33, and was buried in Byrum, Læsø, Hjørring, Denmark.
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Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Christen . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the especially Danish and Norwegian variant Kristensen . Compare Christenson and Christianson .
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