| Photos
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 | Eli Jensen Nielsen - Portrait
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 | Eli Jensen Nielsen in his soldier uniform
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 | Cenotaph (Mindesten) at Ballum Cemetery commemorating the dead of the men from Ballum Parish who died during WWI.
Besides Eli Jensen Nielsen also Anker Nielsen is a relative. Though not in this Nielsen branch. He was my great-grandmother Anke Marie Quitzau´s 1st cousin. |
 | Hans Christian Nielsen and his wife Ingeborg Cathrine (nee Pedersen) and 10 of their 11 children. Children no 11 died before this picture was taken.
Probably from shortly before the 2 oldest boys, Jens and Peter Petersen Nielsen immigrated to Australia in 1882 |
 | Group photo taken at Hans Christian Nielsen and Ingeborg Cathrine´s(nee Pedersen) golden wedding in 1911. All living children + their spouses except for Jens and Peter Petersen in Australia and their spouses. Please note that Jens Andersen Rossen and Carl Christian Rossen are siblings. So also Bothilde Caroline Nielsen (nee Jakobsen) and Dorthea Marie Nielsen (nee Jakobsen)
Back row, from left to right: Ane Petrea Nielsen, Christian Nielsen, Niels Peter Nielsen, Dorthea Marie Nielsen (nee Jakobsen), Gyde Marie Nielsen (nee Nissen), Eli Jensen Nielsen.
Middle row, from left to right: Cathrine Hansine Jensen (nee Nielsen), Jørgen Christensen Jensen, Carl Christian Rossen, Sophie Pauline Rossen (nee Nielsen), Marie Jensine Jepsen (nee Nielsen), Bothilde Caroline Nielsen (nee Jakobsen), Christine Margrethe Rossen (nee Nielsen), Otto Nielsen, Jens Andersen Rossen. |
 | Hans Christian Nielsen and Ingeborg Cathrine´s (nee Pedersen) Golden Wedding in 1911. Group photo with 8 children, their spouses and many grandchildren. In total they had at least 60 grandchildren!
A first description with names on a separate paper. The correct version with all correct names later on... |
 | Hans Christian Nielsen and his wife Ingeborg Cathrine (nee Pedersen) and 10 of their 11 children. Children no 11 died before this picture was taken.
Probably from shortly before the 2 oldest boys, Jens and Peter Petersen Nielsen immigrated to Australia in 1882
Backside of the picture |
| Documents
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 | Hans Christian Nielsen and Ingeborg Cathrine (nee Pedersen)
Golden Wedding 1911
Heads and numbers |
 | Hans Christian Nielsen and Ingeborg Cathrine`s (nee Pedersen) Golden Wedding in 1911
Number and Names of the participants on the group photo, page 1 of 2 |
 | Hans Christian Nielsen and Ingeborg Cathrine`s (nee Pedersen) Golden Wedding in 1911
Number and Names of the participants on the group photo, page 2 of 2 |
 | Eli Jensen Nielsen and Dorthea Bothilde Jakobsen
Marriage record from The Danish Church Books
Skast Sogn, 1904 |
 | Eli Jensen Nielsen
Birth record from Civil Registry/Standesamt/Personregistret
Ballum, 1878 |
 | Eli Jensen Nielsen
Birth and baptism record from The Danish Church Books
Ballum Sogn, 1878 |
 | Eli Jensen Nielsen
Death record from Civil Registry/Standesamt/Personregistret
Ballum, 24 Mar 1919
His dead was reported about 6 months after he died on the battlefield near Jouy in France
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 | Eli Jensen Nielsen and his later on brother-in-law Jørgen Christensen Jensen
Confirmation record from The Danish Church Books
Ballum Sogn, 26 Mar 1893 |
 | Eli Jensen Nielsen and Dorthea Marie Jakobsen
Marriage record from Civil Registry/Standesamt/Personregistret
Skast, 1904 |
 | Eli Jensen Nielsen
Census/Folketælling, 1 Dec 1885
"Königreich Preussen. Volkszählung am 1. Dezember 1885"
Eli er dansk statsborger som bor i det som dengang var en del af Preussen/Tyskland. Han er altså en optant |
 | Eli Jensen Nielsen
Conscription register/Lægdsrulle,
Ballum, 1898 |
 | Eli Jensen Nielsen
Deutsche Verlustenliste, Nr 609, 17 Aug 1916
He is noticed as "leicht verwundet" - light wounded |
1878 - 1918 (39 years)
