Anna Dorothea Nissen

Passenger manifest reading: she arrived at New York on 4 May 1888 on the Lessing from Hamburg with her husband and two daughters. The manifest gives her age as 29 and her home as Marienkoog, near Niebüll in North Frisia.

From Dylan Slagh's research. Treat details marked probable or unconfirmed as leads.

Born

2 Nov 1858, Marienkoog, Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Died

1 Feb 1939, Clinton, Clinton, Iowa, USA

Buried

Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa, United States of America

Lived

1860, Danmark

Arrival

1888

Lived

1920, York, Carroll, Illinois, USA

Immigrated

4 May 1888, New York, New York, USA

Father

Johann Hinrich Nissen (born 1826)

Mother

Friederika Hanna Christiansen (born 1822)

Spouse

Jens Diedrich Andresen (1857–1948)Married before 27 Feb 1885

Children

• Friderike Hanna Andresen (1885–1960)
• Herrlie Andresen (1887–1958)
• Johanna Henriette Andresen (1889–1940)
• Jennie Dorothea Andresen (1892–1971)
• Anna M Andresen (1894–1979)
• Jens Deitrich Andresen Jr. (1899–1985)

Siblings

• Nis Nicolai Nissen (born 1853)
• Martin August Nissen (born 1855)

• 1858: Dageboell (Nordfriesland) baptism register page, 1858, Anna Dorothea Nissen
• 1888: 1888 passenger manifest first page, steamer Lessing from Hamburg to New York
• 1888: 1888 passenger manifest page listing emigrant families including the Andresen group
• 1939: Iowa certificate of death for Anna Nissen Andresen, Clinton IA, died 31 Jan 1939

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