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PETER AND PARENTS

This is how my exploration of my lineage began.

In 2009, my wife's mother received a booklet from one of her relatives dealing with a family history of a genus Lassen. In the lineages of this genus included a branch of my mother-in-law's, and thus also my wife's, lineage. This sparked the interest in exploring the lineage of my wife, Birthe, who has been researching extensively in her lineage ever since. I have contributed to Birthe's research by paying attention to, and by suggesting, and participating in, some travel and trips to places that have been of interest to her family. These activities have aroused my interest in exploring my own lineage.

My intention has been to uncover both my mother, Inge Hansen, and my father, Niels Vagn Andersen, and their families as far back as possible, and to describe the interesting events, events, and stories that may emerge along the way occupation. This incredibly exciting and educational work I am doing, and probably will be for as long as I live.

Short about me

I was born on December 10, 1954 in Copenhagen.
I am married to Birthe, who is Odenseaner, and we have lived together in Odense since 1981.
I work in the IT industry, and have been doing it for many years. I love vacations, trips, travel, and leisure at all and can now also call myself a genealogist at the beginning stage.

The Kroman name

The Kroman name originates from Ærø.

In 1906, shipmate Hans Peter Kromann and his wife Petra Jensine Møllmann gave birth to a son who was christened Kristian Møllmann Kromann. In 1916 the name Kromann, by ministerial resolution, was addressed to Kroman (ie with only one n). The reason for this is unknown, but there are many families in Ærø by the name of Kromann, and not so many by the name of Kroman, so it might seem like a dispute between families that it has been changed in this case.
Kristian married Erna Duncan Jensen and they had 3 girls, Inger, Grethe and Birthe.
Birthe became the mother of my first wife Birgit Duncan Kroman. I took the surname Kroman when I married Birgit in 1975, and I have had that ever since.

Therefore, my family name is Kroman, and not Andersen as you might think.

The first part of the genus.

My Mother's birth on April 17, 1927 in Egebjerg, Odsherred

My Father's birth on May 12, 1929 in Guldbergsgade, Copenhagen

My Parents

My parents were married on July 13, 1951 at the mayor's office in Holbæk. My father was a typographer and my mother was listed as a telephony woman.

It is a bit uncertain how they met, but my mother is from a family that has lived and worked in the Odsherred area in Zealand for many centuries, and my father is from a family where the father was born in Odense and The mother was born at the Royal Birth Foundation in Copenhagen, but my father's parents got married, had children, and lived most of their working time together in Copenhagen.

It is also unclear why my parents are married in Holbæk, because already on August 26, 1951 they move to Copenhagen and live on Bykildevej in Valby. It is a bit mysterious, because my father lives at a number of different addresses in the Copenhagen area all the time, but exactly in the period from June 1, 1951 to August 26, 1951 he is associated with an address in Ruds Vedby on Nørager Herregårdspension. It may be related to the fact that my mother had been married earlier, and that she probably, among other things, therefore, had a burning desire to get away from the Odsherred area in a hurry, and that they therefore needed a very temporary housing that could justify a quick - and probably very anonymous - local wedding ceremony at the town hall in Holbæk, so that they as married couples could move "respectably" to the capital and begin their "real life" there. It is even more mysterious because my father is apparently also associated with an address at “Skrænten” Hestehave in Nørre Asmindrup in Odesherred, not far from Egebjerg where my mother was born and lived, until May 15, 1956 (this is possibly a holiday home area ). All this, of course, is only guesswork on my part, because none of my parents ever told me anything about this.

In any case, one can rightly say that my mother has been a bit of a rebel in relation to her lineage. Her entire family, both on her mother's and father's side, has, as mentioned, lived and worked in the Odsherred area for many centuries, so her decision to marry a "Copenhagen mute" and move to the Capital was, to put it mildly, a break with the known and recognized local behavior pattern. So she was definitely one of the youth rebels and pattern breakers of that time - and it was even a very long time before both youth rebellion and women's liberation, which first realized from the mid-1960s.

My parents lived on Bykildevej in Valby for a short period, and on October 15, 1951, they moved to Ved Vænget in Østerbro. My sister, Marianne, was born on December 27, 1951, that is, during the period they lived here. On May 1, 1954, they moved onto Mozartsvej 23, in Copenhagen's SV neighborhood. Here I was born on December 10, 1954, and we lived here until they were divorced in the mid-1960s.

My self

As far as I'm concerned, I went to school at Ellebjerg school in Copenhagen, from where I graduated with a real-life exam in 1971. Here's a picture of 1y, in 1961. It's me in the upper right - a little shy guy, but I'm also the youngest in the class. First celebrates 6 years in December and this picture is from shortly after school starts in August.

But I also did other things but go to school. Here is a little impression of the surroundings I was traveling in everyday.

First of all, you should have a picture of my absolute childhood sweetheart - at least right up until we started school. It was Hanne-Elene and we were almost inseparable. I should have also been locked in a riot with Hanne-Elene and ... kissed her ... whoops.

But then I also promised that we should get married.

Here is Henne-Elene and I on the first day of school at Ellebjerg school.

Here on the left is, for example, tram line 3 coming from Mozart's Square and driving down Mozartsvej, where it turns left with off Offenbachscvej. This tram is on its way to “Tippen” in Sydhavnen. It was the place where most Copenhagen trams were scrapped in the years 1966 - 1972. See also the video above.

To the right of the taxi in the front of the picture (just behind Line 3), there was a grocery store in the basement. Børsen was the name was the grocer. Here I have often picked up potatoes, milk, and many other good things.

And then you could get "salmoni sticks" - it was a good scent. Right next to the florist on the corner of Offenbachsvej, to the left of the picture next to the beautiful Ford Anglia, is the hairdresser. Here I was cut and got a couple of times also washed hair. I very much enjoyed the massage you got on the scalp - I was probably a strange child :-)

On the other of the kare where I lived was Sjælør Boulevard, and here was a large playground that I stayed at a lot, not least because there was space at one end for playing football, but two benches in each end to the square as goals. In 2011, the space looks like this. And it was actually right where the gates are today we ran into when we were playing.

Back then, there were two iron harassers that you had to zig-zag through, and then the two benches that were playing football goals at each end of the square as we look into this. There have been a few liters of sweat on the tarmac here over the years, I can say.

Not far from here was a baker who made the most delicious student bread - "Denterklodser" we called them. I am pretty sure I would not dare to put one of these in the mouth today, but at that time a lot of Denterklodser was eaten both before and after football. It was glorious and it was a lovely carefree time.

Well - the trees do not grow into the sky. So the worries came along the way when my parents had to separate and we had to move off Mozartsvej. My mother had found another man, Hugo, who was a baker on Borgbjergvej. We should move him to him and my father should stay on Mozartsvej. It wasn't a lot of fun, and it's probably one of the events in my life I've never quite come across. I was 11-12 years old at the time, and have definitely been very sensitive to the things that happened. Well, but we moved on Borgbjergvej 44, and my mother married Hugo. Then it was just done.

We lived right on top of the bakery. Usually with a wonderful smell to follow.

So I spent most of my teenage time on Borgbjergvej, with Hugo. Poor Hugo. He was a workhorse who just wanted to do so well for my mother and for my sister and I. And we weren't really good at him. It was a shame - I can see that today. And I really regret that for myself.

But everything went well, I was confirmed on September 29, 1968 at Sjælør church. Then I looked like that.

And a few years later, I had attended Ellebjerg School for 10 years, and graduated with a real-life exam. Then I looked like this - a person different from 10 years earlier when I started school.
It's me who's # 2 from the left in the back row standing.

After school I became a soldier in 1973, and stitched family shortly thereafter, as shown elsewhere on these pages.
That's what I had to say about me :)

Both of my parents are deceased.

My mother's lineage comes from Odsherred as mentioned.
My Father's lineage originates partly from North Funen and Odense and partly from Nørrebro, Copenhagen.
Go to Peters family.