Niels Peder RASMUSSEN

                   Nels and Martin Jensen were adopted by their step-father Hans Knudsen.  Niels Peder Rasmussen's unwed father was Rasmus Ibsen.

BIOGRAPHY:
History of Niels Peter Rasmussen

BIOGRAPHY: Written by himself

BIOGRAPHY: I was born in Nebbelunde on Laaland, Maribo Denmark the 22 Feb. 1843.  I was a child of Rasmus Ibsen and Karen Marie Nielsen.  I was born in my grandparents home, Niels Moller and Martha Hansen in Bukkehauge where I stayed till I was about one year old, and my grandmother died. After that I was taken from Nebblunde Sogn to Regnign until I was seven or eight years old, and endured much hardship, suffering from both hunger and cold.  Then my mother married a country boy whose name was Hans Knudsen. He became my father, he always treated me as his own son and I loved him as my father.

BIOGRAPHY: My mother had another son by the name of Marten Jensen, born the 31 Dec. 1844.  He is a Shoemaker and lives in Marstaloon Oro.

BIOGRAPHY: With my stepfather, my mother has three living sons, Rasmus Hansen married and lives in Kobenhavn [Copenhagen]. Peder Hansen traveled around here in America, and Carl Hansen who lives in Burean, Burean County, Illn. U.S.A.  My stepfather also lives there and there's where my mother died.  My brothers children I do not know, I have never seen them.

BIOGRAPHY: My parent had two boys and two girls that are dead.  The boys were both named Rasmus and the girls were both named Bodel. The oldest of the girls was 12 when she died.  She was unusually intelligent.  The other children all died at an early age.  When I was twelve years old I was put in a pottery shop to learn the pottery trade in Maribo.  The man that owned the shop was named Karetke.  He was a fine potter, but he was a big busky, strong man that gave me beatings.  I was there until I wa seventeen years old.  After that I was two years with potter Hansen in Saxkjobing.  They were pretty nice people.

BIOGRAPHY: There had lived in the town of Saxkjobing a Shoemaker named Wallentin, who died, but he left a good wife who was my mother's aunt and family of children who are ll grown.  They were bakery people.  After I had been there for two years, it was customary to give a party, all my friends and acquaintances were invited and was treated to both food and drink.

BIOGRAPHY: In all those years my foldks lived outside of Maribo on a little farm named Sibary.  After that I travelled from my folks and friends and was gone for many years.  I worked on the Fyen in Middelfort about five weeks with potter, Andres Rasmussen and later with Liesnen in Kolding in Holland.  They were fine people who were fishermen.  After that I traveled to Faaborg and worked for two years, and that is wehre I got acquainted with my first wife, Lene Dyreborg.  They had a big pottery shop and was very nice people.

BIOGRAPHY: There was a married Swede working there [Henrik Madsen] whose son I once saved from drowning, when he fell into the ocean.

BIOGRAPHY: There is a little town on the Tyen.  I was there in 1864, when the war broke out between Osterig Proisen and Denmark.  I saw most of the Danish men walk or ride from Slesvig.   I had many friends there and spent many happy days.

BIOGRAPHY: I travelled later in a ship from Faaborg to Kjiel.  It cost one dollar, then later I got work in Nylmonster.   I have forgotten the man's name.  I was there 4 weeks and then traveled to Wedel (in Germany near Elben big river between Holsten and Honover) by the Coast. There were many fine people among the potters there.

BIOGRAPHY: After that I travelled again to many small towns on my way to Berlin. I travelled again to a little German town (Heiniken) where Digteren Giller (poet) was born.  I was there six weeks. After that I travelled a great deal in the small towns in Germany.  I got work in Caborghouse with a man by the name of Eberbay.   He had a glazing oven where he glazed very large jars.

BIOGRAPHY: I also seen (sic) in that town where Morten Lutter (Martin Luther) lived and the bed he slept in.  It looked badly damaged.  People had taken souvenirs and splinters from everything.  The stofe and everything was old fashioned.  The stove he warmed himself with was very old style, it was glazed and the trimming was wonderful old.  It was a bloody war that ended in the Prussia winning.

BIOGRAPHY: I also trafeled to Franford along a road whre the Germans had their men stationed after the war, there were 60,000 men.  The soldiers stole my shirts, so when I came from work, I was left shirtless.

BIOGRAPHY: I travelled from there to other chief cities, Hanove Brens, then Hamborg and back to Wedel where I worked for another four weeks and then I went back to Holsten and Dlesvig.  I then travelled back to Faaborg again and stayed there two years, and it was there that Petra was born, 6 June 1866.  She was born in her gandmother's home.

BIOGRAPHY: After that I worked in Odense where I met F.T. Birch, who was a Mormon, and there I heard the Gospel in it's truthfulness.

BIOGRAPHY: I worked again in Kolding and Leitner, and later again in Faaborg, and worked there two years.  An then I bought potter Birch's Pottery Shop.  The house belonged to someone else, so I had to ay house rent.  I worked for myself as long as I lived in Denmark.  The place was in Odensse Frederik Street No. 38, but when the place was sold we moved to Nyborg and bought a place there from Christian Nielsen and lived there several years, but just before we moved I was baptized in Frobjerg by F.P. Birch the 4th of Feb. 1871, and a few days later my first wife was baptized by N.C. Edlefesen [Edlevsen] and since we have always been members of Christ's Church.

BIOGRAPHY: And I gave of my time and the small amount of means we were blessed with to the Church as long as we lived in Denmark.

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BIOGRAPHY: The following addition to this history of her father was compiled and written by Zina M. Rasmussen Hansen, dau. of Niels Peder Rasmussen and Marie Magdalana Henriksen.

BIOGRAPHY: A record of --Niels P. Rasmussen and his first family found int he Emigation and Shipping record in the Library in Salt Lake City, Utah:

BIOGRAPHY: They left from Aamhus, Denmark  ------------- N.P. Rasmussen--------age 37
                                                Casperlene (Lene)-----age 35
                                             children
                                                Petra-----------------age 14
                                                Frederikke------------age 10

BIOGRAPHY: They sailed from Liverpool, England on 10 July 1880 on the Ship Wisconsin.  They arrived in New York, 21 July 1880.  The Company then continued their journey by rail, in the charge of Capt. Nels P. Rasmussen and arriven in Salt Lake City 29 July 1880.

BIOGRAPHY: ------------Ch. Chron. 10 July 1880
              Lib. Book 1064 P 141
              Brit. Miss. 10 July 1880 P. 1-5
              His. S. Cand.

The steamship Wisconsin sailed from Liverpool, England, with 727 Saints, in charge of Niels P. Rasmussen.  The company landed at New York July 21st, and arrived at Salt Lake City July 29th.
WISCONSIN
Single-screw steamship: 3238 tons: 378' x 43' x 32'
Built: 1870 by Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co. at Jarrow-on-Tyne, England
	More than eighty-eight hundred Mormons were transported from Liverpool to  New York aboard the British steamer Wisconsin. The thirty-three emigrant companies  ranged in size from 7 to 976, the first sailing on 31 July 1872 and the last on 11  October 1890. The passages averaged eleven days. During these voyages the  following captains commanded the vessel: Thomas W. Freeman, William Forsyth,  Edward Bentley, Charles Leonard Rigby, Thomas Dunn, and John P. Morrall.
	This three-decked Guion Line steamship's home port was Liverpool. She was  built with an iron hull, two masts, one funnel, and the earliest compound engines used in the transatlantic service. Her tonnage was later increased to 3700. She was the  sister ship of the Wyoming. In 1893 the Wisconsin was scrapped.
Picture of Wisconsin.  The Peabody Museum of Salem


In the First District Court, at Ogden, for u.c.(unlawful cohabitation--aka Poligomy), Judge Henderson sentenced John Ash, of Logan, to six months imprisonment; Matthew B. Wheelwright, of Ogden, to four months; Niels P. Rasmussen, of Brigham City, to six months and $100 fine
Andrew Jenson, Church Chronology, December 25, 1888 (Tuesday)
Andrew Jenson, Church Chronology, June 24, 1889 (Monday)  Niels P. Rasmussen was discharged from the Penitentiary.