Mette Kirstine Gottfredson

Brief Life History of Mette Kirstine

When Mette Kirstine Gottfredson was born on 24 August 1850, in Jetsmark, Ålborghus, Denmark, her father, Jens Lund Gotfredsen, was 40 and her mother, Karen Marie Jensdatter, was 38. She married Phillip Borresen on 2 March 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Ålborg, Denmark in 1855 and Mount Pleasant Election Precinct, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 18 November 1923, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Mount Pleasant City Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jorgen Cramer Larsen Tuft
1846–1897
Mette Kirstine Gottfredson
1850–1923
Marriage: 10 April 1871
Anna Christina Tuft
1872–1958
George Franklin Tuft
1874–1935
Edna Caroline Tuft
1876–1958
James Lauritz Tuft
1877–1945
Sarah Ellen Tuft
1882–1957
Bertha May Tuft
1885–1917
Carrie Elsie Tuft
1888–1987
George Tuft
1890–1890
Florence Tuft
1892–1982
Lola Lavern Tuft
1895–1960

Sources (32)

  • Martha C Tuft, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Birth of Mette Kirstine Jensen
  • Martha Christena Or Christine Tuft, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

World Events (8)

1855

EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER A. Marie Dinnesen Neilson BIRTH 13 Feb 1829 Denmark DEATH 2 Jan 1855 (aged 25) BURIAL Mount Pleasant City Cemetery Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 42004366 · View Source

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

vernacular form of Margareta .

Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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History of Mette (Martha) Christine Gottfredson and her family by Carrie Tuft Jensen, her daughter

History of Mette Christine Gottfredson as told by her daughter Carrie Tuft Jensen. My mother Mette (Martha) Christine Gottfredson immigrated to Utah in 1858 from Denmark with her parents Jens and Kar …

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