Danish Names…

The names here are, for the most part the correct names our Sorensen family had and used prior to the journey to Utah. Patronymics being what they are… Ole Peder Sorensen's military document has his last name as Nicolaisen. Which I suppose would have been correct if we had stayed in Denmark.

Passenger Listing at Copenhagen—

This is a digital image of the Sorensen family, as the were recorded on page 54 of the Emigrants from Copenhagen Conference in the spring of 1857 ledger book. In the left margin you will see they are noted to recieve a wagon and oxen, at Iowa City, Iowa. There are twelve people in this group, Nils Otto Jorgensen, who was an apprentice in Nicolai's work shop, as a wheelright, came to America with our family. His (Nels) brother Andrew Andersen married Katherine Sophie Sorensen, Nicolai's oldest daughter and child. She and her husband came to Utah the following year, in 1858. So our family brought one of Jorgen Christian Andersen sons, and they brought one of Nicolai's daughters.

Nils Otto Jorgensen was killed by the Indians in Salt Creek Canyon in 1858 along with his new wife. Isaac Sorensen gives us the following— …There was 12 of us in the family, father, mother, and a hire, nine children beside a hired man that was with father in the old country when he joined the church. This hired man was a brother to my oldest sister Sophia’s man, he was killed by the Indians about eight months after we arrived in the valley. My oldest sister Sophia did not come out till 1858.

— Emigrants from Copenhagen Conference in the Spring of 1857 —

 

This pasenger listing from, Emigrants from the Copenhagen Coference in the Spring of 1857, is somewhat different than the one kept in Liverpool, England. Emigrants Registry of the British Mission shows the Americanized use of the Sorensen family names.

Number	Name	Occupation	Age
109	Nicolai Sorensen	Carpenter	57
110	Line Sorensen		49
111	Ole Peder Sorensen	Carpenter	24
112	Kirsten Sorensen		20
113	Frederik Abraham Sorensen	Wheelright	19
114	Frederik Isaak Sorensen	Wheelright	16
115	Frederik Jacob Sorensen		12
116	Karen Maria Sorensen		14
117	Soren Christian Sorensen		10
118	Henrik Carl Christian Sorensen		5
119	Ingeborg Kirstine Sorensen		2
120	Nils Otto Jorgensen	Wheelright	19

1. Emigrants from the Copenhagen Coference in the Spring of 1857, Family History Libary, Film Number 025,696