Hans Ludwig Hansen History

This blog contains more information about the history of the family of Hans Ludwig Hansen. 

 

 

Hans Ludwig Hansen was the second son and child of Hans and Johanne Hansen, and four years older than brother Carl August.  He was born in Denmark in 1842, married Caroline Amundine Mariager in 1969 and died in 1911 in the United States.  The California Hansen cousins were told by Aunt Maja that he was a successful builder in Copenhagen, but government interference controls made him decide to move to America, following his younger brother, Carl August and his family.  This branch of the family's history states that four brothers migrated from Denmark to Detroit.  One went on to Kansas and one to Australia.

 

The following history was verbally given to the cousins by their favorite aunt Maja, a.k.a., Myra:

 

Hans Ludwig Hansen and his wife Caroline came to America with six children in 1882 to New York, then directly to Detroit, Michigan via Central Railroad.  They lived on the east side of Detroit a year or two when three of their children died within two weeks of each other from black diphtheria.  They were Maja, aged 13, Robert aged 6 and Edward, six month old.

 

The family moved to Locust Street near 12th Street, where the second Maja (Myra) was born in 1887.  In 1888 they moved to Chicago to work at the 1893 World's Fair.  Sophia (named for a paternal aunt back in Copenhagen) was born in Chicago on June 14, 1890. They moved later to 67th and Calumet, then to 69th and Prairie, at which place Emma was married to Oscar Erickson in November, 1895.  The family moved in 1897 to 67th and Aberdeen.  Then in 1898 moved to Detoit, Michigan to South Street near Grand River.  Caroline had breast cancer in April, 1899 and was sent back to Chicago along with Myra and Sophia to live with Emma and obtain medical attention, but she died there and was buried at Oakwood cemetery on June 3, 1899.  This cemetery is located at 67th and Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

 

In September 1899 Hans Ludwig, Sophie and Maja (Myra) lived with Charlie and Anna that winter in Detroit.  On May 25, 1900, (Myra's 13th birthday) the tree of them moved to 1381 12 Street. About that time Hans Ludwig sponsored two cousins:  Robert and Theodore Hansen, who came to Deroit to live.  Myra went to Chicago in April, 1904 to live with Emma and her husband Oscar and their three children: Harold, Vivian and Bernice.  Oscar died of pneumonia on May 16, 1907 at the age of 32.  Eva married Albert Ertzinger in November of 1906 at Emma's house.  Myra married Harry Atkins on July 17, 1907 at Emma's house also.  Sophie also came to live with Emma.  Sophie and Harry Gustafson came to visit Myra and Harry at Huntington, Indiana and were married there in 1910.