Peter Wilhelm Friedrich August (born 4th February 1824) works as an assistant teacher in Kleinwiehe in 1839, only 16 years old then. The next year, 1840, he is an assistant teacher in Klixbüll and 1841 he is a teacher in Drelsdorf. He probably did not have a formal education as a teacher then but in 1845 he is listed as seminarist in the census and lives in Tønder again (Spikerstraße 21). Perhaps he is at the local teacher school although I did not find him enlisted there. In the next census, 1855, we find a “Peder Jensen” as a house teacher in the home of professional hunter Langkilde in Sønderby near Odense. It is, however, not completely without doubt, that it is him. There are 7 children in that household and 25 employees. Among them also is the 4 years younger Emilie Jørgine Adelaide Nathalia Foersom (born 30th December 1828 in Odense as the daughter of the music teacher and church organist Frederik Foersom*). She works in the household as a domestic worker (Danish: husjomfru).

Only one year later (1856), they get married in Copenhagen. Peter works as a teacher in the St. Peter church & secondary school, the school of the German community in Copenhagen that still today is the school and meeting place of the German-Danish community (with the St. Petri church and a large school for German and Danish families). In 1860, the couple lives in Lykkeholms Allé in Frederiksberg. Unfortunately, Peter dies only 11 years after their marriage. In the hospital of Frederiksberg, he gives in to a rupture on the 8th June 1866. Shortly after, his wife, now a widow, enlists as a member of the German parish of St. Peter. After this, we loose her track. She does have children and I do not know when and where she lived after this.

Remark: Emilie’s father Frederik Foersom (1805–-1854) was a friend of the famous danish poet Hans Christian Andersen (1805–-1875). Both were born in the same year and knew each other since their childhood. Frederik also knew H.C. Andersen’s mother Anne Marie Andersdatter. The Foersom family was a highly respected family at that time. A brother of Frederik Foersom, i.e. an uncle to Emilie, was actor Gebhard Foersom (1810–-1857) and another brother was the royal actor Christian Martin Foersom (1794–-1850). The family was also tightly related to the known Danish translater of the works of Shakespeare, Peter Thun Foersom (1777–-1817). –- So, Augusta’s son Peter Wilhelm Friedrich (the grandson of Johann Friedrich Engellenner and Dorothea Gulbrands) made a big leap up in the social hierarchy. While his grandparents died as poor people in Tønder, he could afford to live in a flat in Copenhagen and they even had a domestic worker themselves (Cathrine Nielsen).