The Jenssen Family by David Crankshaw NAC-4-2
My mother’s mother’s mother’s mother was named Andrea Thomine Olsdatter, born the 27th of Feb. 1827 in Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway. She was the 7th and youngest child of a teacher, Ole Tellefsen, originally from the farm Bennestad, and his wife Anne Marie Olsdatter. Andrea had an older brother, Ole Jonas Olsen, 1819-1893, who was a scholar and traveled the world. He was called “Uncle Olsen” by the family and was said to have been in Chicago at the time of the great fire (1871). There was correspondence between his family and the Minnesota families, as I later learned in my family research. Uncle Olsen was at one time a constable in Kristiansand and he died there in 1893, age 74. He was well known and influential in the large port city of Kristiansand (formerly “Christianssand”), a city named after its founder, King Christian IV in 1641. It is the fifth largest city in Norway today. The northeast part of town is the remaining part after the town fire of 1892. It has kept the original wooden houses, with one and two floors, that accommodated workers, workmen and people of humble means. All the houses are facing the streets and you will see cozy windows, main entrances with stairs, iron fences, benches and flowers. The kitchen and bedroom are on the backside of the house and with a separate door to the backyard and the garden. It was here that the Jensen family lived.
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