When Jens Mickelsen was born on 15 April 1808, in Strandby, Mariager Klosters, Denmark, his father, Mikkel Sørensen, was 43 and his mother, Ane Dorthea Nielsdatter, was 37. He married Ane Kathrine Hansdatter on 14 October 1837, in Strandby, Strandby, Mariager Klosters, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Strandby, Gislum, Ålborg, Denmark for about 6 years and Skibsted, Hellum, Ålborg, Denmark in 1840. He died on 10 October 1884, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden.
Kuffert Sorensen was established in 1829 by Carl Peter Sorensen as a leather goods company. Today the business has five locations and each are run by a member of the Sorensen family.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Einer, Ludvig.
Danish and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Mickel (see Michael ). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the much more common variant Mikkelsen .
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