What We Knew!

 

We started with his death certificate and the birth certificates of his 5 children. The death certificate revealed that he died at Marrickville in 1933 and that he was 76 years old. It said that he was born in Denmark and had been in Australia about 64 years. This would have made his arrival in Australia about 1869 at the age of twelve (12).

 His children’s birth certificates gave differing indications of his birthplace. Two said that he was born in Denmark. Another two birth certificates show that he was born in Jutland, Denmark. The birth certificate of his fifth child, Rita May Madsen (b.1898) states that he was born in Tiset, Denmark and was aged 42. This now gives an approximate year of birth as 1857.