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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Vikings, a History," by Robert Ferguson (Penquin Books, 2010), p. 381, in commenting on the ending of the Viking Age by the effective Christianization of the Scandinavians:
"In St. Olav, the Norwegians had had their patron saint since about 1034. The Danes, who had accepted Christianity at the monarchial level some sixty years earlier, had to wait a little longer for theirs. In 1086 Cnut II of Denmark was planning an invasion of William the conqueror's England with a fleet which, somehow, never quite managed to leave the waters of the Limfjord. I was almost as though the memory of how such things were done was fading. Before it had returned he was dead, murdered by his enemies in the church of St. Alban, in Odense. As St. Cnut he was canonized in 1101."
The farm of Skibstedgaard at the western entrance of the Limfjord was the rallying point for this invasion force.
Tina Thurston, academic and author of the 2001 book "Landscapes of power, landscapes of conflict: state formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age," sent me this email in 2001 about Skipstedgaard, which was a magnate farm. Thurston had been doing some archaelogical digs at the farm:
"Re: magnate farms -- yes, you are correct that they indeed run counter to the Dane's traditional system. They were not local -- they were representatives of the king, and were part of the move, on the part of the central government, to change the Danes from a sort of "democratic " society into one much more like other parts of Europe. In fact, the reason we are excited is because a magnate farm would sort of offer proof that the kings indeed had their eye on this area and wanted to get rid of the local rulers in favor of their own men."
2. "Appelone" with no surname appears as a witness in the christening records of her eldest daughter Karen Jacobsdatter's first two children with her first husband Lars Matzen.
CHRISTENING:
1. No record found in FHL film # 053030 Ydby christenings from 1705-1715.
MARRIAGE:
1. FHL film # 053030; Ydby parish record, 1733-1809, book 1, last entry on last page: 26 Aug 1733 "Jacob Smit og Abelona paa Skibstedgd." engaged. Married 4 October. Expert at FHL library notes that no patronymic given for Abelona and "paa Skibstedgd." means of or from Skibstedgaard.
Same film, book 2, p. 117, starts as the very first entry: 4 Oct 1733, Jacob Smed and Apellona "paa Skibstedgd." married.
BURIAL:
1. From records observed by Chris Petersen in Denmark with translation in files of Kerry Petersen:"Ydby churchbook c123A nr. 2, Page 302: Jacob Smed's wife Appelone, bur: 12 Jan 1771-62 years".
2. FHL film # 053030; Ydby parish record, 1733-1809, book 2, p. 302.
SOURCES_MISC:
1. Information for family group from Archive Record family group sheet submitted by Mrs. Wanda Roos, R.D. 1 Box 651 B, Sandy Utah. She states information is from church records of Ydby by Eva M. Gregersen. James Christian Westergard is listed as 3ggson.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Abt 1709 - 1771 (~ 62 years)