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Christian Petter Andersen Møller

Christian Petter Andersen Møller was born in Tise parish on the 10th of February 1823, christened at home and introduced in Tise church on the 27th of March same year, son of Anders Møller Andersen, farmer in Tise and wife Anne Christensdatter.

The parish register is rather damaged by humidity and age and the names of the godfathers and godmothers therefore are impossible to read.

He was a blacksmith apprentice with his father, but after his fall from Tise church tower - see later - he most likely has been weak, perhaps has had a longer period where time was used at reading, at any rate he is in 1848 listed on the list of accessions in Vester Brønderslev parish register where he worked as a teacher for the 2nd class in Vester Brønderslev school. He had "a very favourable character from parson Ingerslev in Tise".

Christian Petter Andersen Møller was married on the 6th of February 1849 in Vester Brønderslev church to spinster Christiane Thise.
To give away were: Farmer Thøger Pedersen and farmer Thomas Andersen, Hvilskov, both from the town.

It is at high time for their wedding, as their first child was born on the 5th of June the same year. How he learned to know his wife is still all in the air.

In September 1849 he leaves, again according to Vester Brøndeslev churchbook, the job as a teacher there and moves to "his wife in Bjørnsholm parish".
He starts his training to be a teacher at Ranum Teacher Training College, but it has not been possible to find him there at the census paper in 1850.
Christiane Thise with three children are listed at the census paper in Tise parish with her father- and mother-in-law.
He graduates from there in 1851.

After ended education for some years he is a teacher in Hallund parish, and from 1854 - 59 in Ørum parish, before he in 1859 got appointment in Guldager parish, from where retired in 1878 only 55 years old.

After his wife died in December 1902 he lives with his son and daughter-in-law at "Engholm" in Vestbjerg where he died on the 24th of April 1903, 80 years old.
He was buried from Sulsted church on the 1st of May and the casket was buried at Vrejlev churchyard.

Christian Petter Møller Andersen is shortly mentioned in "Landboliv" (farmers life) in 1931 by Kristian Møller, teacher in farming in Korinth, who is one of his grandchildren, and in "Vrejlev og Hæstrup Sognes Skolehistorie". The big schooldistrict with the many schools by Poul Hviid.

Extract from the first mentioned book page 12:

For surly many it may be so that they think there is one single person who has put his mark on place and time, where his first coming and going was. Yet not always the same person will mark all the young ones at the place, for his and their nature must correspond like bow and strings. The one I owe most is my grandfather.

His childhood was in the poor time a hundred years ago and in a blacksmith's home, not in a big farm, and yet he calls his childhood rich. The farm had gone, but the song and the nature equally full his share of inheritance, and then the fantasy this divine creative gift, which makes the shepherd lad till a king's son and with more king's luck than a rightful heir to the throne, whose soul is wingless.

On earth and in water he learned to move in safety, but in the air he came to a bad end. He also wanted to be familiar with the air and climbed the highest point he knew: the tower of the church. But his visit in the sky ended with a fall and a split head. As well blacksmith as "Wise Karen" diagnosed: Reparation impossible, but his young head wanted to live, and it grew together by itself. Not quite surgical correct, for the enormous scar was some of what I, as a boy, half a century later first saw and most "admired" with him. But self made is well made, the head was durable, and worked satisfying. - And the fall did not either kill his courage, he wanted to go forward and up, he wanted to be a teacher. And got consent from his home. According to the pedagogies of that time learning should be beaten into the head of the boy by beating on the quite opposite end, and it had to be beaten firmly, so the arm had to be good, but as a trained blacksmith's son he meant he could do that, and he had so profoundly proved he had "a good head".

The reason why he chose the teacherjob , I have no idea, but I know, that here he met something, which found response in his mood. He started at Snedsted (the later Ranum) teacher training collage with the known, gifted Ludvig Chr. Müller.


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My grandfather became one of his faithful heirs. His task was in Vendsyssel, first in Hallund near Brønderslev and then in Guldager near Hjørring. In both places he worked together with the pioneers of the "Grundtvigianism" and within their sphere of activities I had the luck to start my years.

The story obout Christian Petter Møller's fall from the tower of Tise church tower is in my branch of the family given in a bit different version. As mentioned he was in training with his father as a blacksmith, and here he should have gorged a set of wings for himself, why he went to the tower and jumped as he hoped to be able to fly.

If this version is true he has been a genius, while he has been rather a bit stupid if he has just jumped out. When you see Tise church to day the tower does not seem especially high, but it has been higher - it got its present height at the reconstruction of the church in the 1850th.

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Christiane Thise

Christiane Andersen was born in Grønhedens Skole on the 14th of June 1816 and christened in Volstrup church on the 11th of August same year as a daughter of Anders Christian Christensen Thise, head at Dyrhedens skole and Elisabeth Larsdatter.
Godfathers and godmothers were: Ane Nielsdatter, Bojensgaard, Johanne Poulsdatter, Dyrheden, Anders Jensen, Grønheden, Peter Jørgensen, Grønheden and Lars Nielsen Bojensgaard.

Christiane Thise was confirmed in Vraa church in 1831 as nr. 1 with the mark "very good and virtuous".
As you can see Andersen is changed to Thise. In the 1900th century you might change your surname without having to register in any places.

Christiane gave birth to two so-called illegitimate children, both born while she lived at home in Emb school.

In the census paper from 1860 is mentioned that her eldest son Anders Christian "has lost his mind" from February 185-. Last figure is not to be read and what has happened you may only guess.

In 1870 he is not staying at home and in the census paper from 1890 he is a farmhand at "Engholt" in Vestbjerg with his youngest halfbrother.

Christiane died on the 18th of December 1902, 86 years old in her home in Guldager and was buried at Vrejlev churchyard on the 27th of December.

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Children of Christiane Thise

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Andreas Christian Christensen

* 1844 in Emb sogn

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Line Christensen

* 1845 in Emb sogn

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Children of Christian Petter Andersen Møller and Christiane Thise

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Anders Møller

* 1849 in Vester Brønderslev sogn

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4.

Elisabeth Møller

* 1851 in Hallund sogn

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5.

Ludvig Christian Møller

* 1854 in Ørum sogn

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6.

Jens Daniel Frederik Møller

* 1858 in Ørum sogn

+ 1931 in Sulsted sogn

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