Iversen Svendsen Family
1894 August 20th. Birth of Anna Caia Emille Svendsen the daughter of Einar Svendsen and his wife Ida Nanny Marie Svendsen.
1911 Residing at Suldrup, Hornum, Alborg, Denmark: Caja Emilie Svendsen (age 16) with her mother Ida Marie Svendsen and two younger siblings.[1]
1920 Married (1). (Date as claimed on memorial but not confirmed in records - see 1923 entry). Married in Denmark to Jørgen Brabaek (1880-1974) who changed his name from Andersen to Brabæk in 1908. Graduated as a candidate for agricultural studies from Aas in Norway. Farmer on Zealand 1909-1929 and in England 1929-1932. Invented a method for drying food in 1934. From 1936 director of A/S Sicca Patent Holding Co. Lived in Switzerland, Italy and Germany from 1937-1941. Owner of the Sicca drying plant in Fredensborg 1957.
1921 Birth of Jorgen Svendsen Brabaek (1921-1999) - See Northern Metalife
1922 Birth of Axel Anders Svendsen
1923 November 18th. Marriage of Jørgen Brabaek and Anna Emille Caia Svendsen.[2]
1924 Birth of Hans Einar Svendsen (1924-2020)
1929 Birth of Neils (Denis) Svendsen. He married 1954 October 20th to Elizabeth Doreen Knowles who is secretary and director of W. T. Knowles and Sons. Neils is technical manager of Northern Metalife.[3]
1932 Naturalisation. Svend Iversen, Danish Bacon Co Ltd, Exeter and of Langhill, Moretonhampstead, Devon.[4]
1934 Married (2) at Newton Abbot to Svend Iversen. She is Anna E. C. Fugl-Svendsen or Braback. Svend was born in Denmark (1904 March 09th), the son of Lars Iversen and his wife Katherine Kirstine Olsen and he came to Exeter, UK, in 1924
1937 Birth of Leslie Iversen
1939 Residing at Grassway, Duryard, Exeter, Svend Iversen, Wholesale Food Comp(any) Man(ager). With Anna E. C. Iversen and three others (redacted).[5]
1941 Svend Iversen, manager of Danish Bacon Co, Sowton.[6]
1942 April 24th. Death of Axel Anders Svensen, a native of Denmark. Pilot Officer in Royal Air Force Naval Reserve (No. 110596). Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial (Panel 71).[7] His Spitfire shot down by Fw190s near Berck-Sur-Mer while escorting Bostons to Vlissingen During Circus 132.
1947 Aerial image of Grassway shows that behind the house are some sixty trees planted in six evenly spaced rows - species unknown. This will be the reason that it is sometimes referred to as 'Grassway Plantation'.[8]
1956 Iversen, Grassway, Lower Duryard, Exeter.[9]
1963 Advert. 'Working Housekeeper, modern house: wife part invalid. No family at home. Iversen, Grassway, Clydesdale Road, Duryard, Exeter'.[10]
1966 November 10th. Death of Caia at Exeter and buried at Moretonhampstead
2008 March 03rd. Death of Svend Iversen at Exeter
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1911 Denmark Census
- ↑ Danish marriage records
- ↑ Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 20 October 1954
- ↑ Western Morning News - Saturday 13 February 1932
- ↑ 1939 Register
- ↑ Western Times - Friday 01 August 1941
- ↑ CGWC
- ↑ OS Air Photos 1:1,250, 1944-1950
- ↑ Express and Echo - Friday 18 May 1956
- ↑ Express and Echo - Friday 08 February 1963