!BIRTH Parish Records, Sinding, Viborg, Danmark, BEF 1870 (#53985). Also appears as 33 on Feb. 1870 Census, Sinding, Hids, Viborg, Danmark.
His birth record is very difficult to read but lists his mother as unmarried, of Sinding. His mother and birth father were never married and he continued to live with her husband, Niels Jensen, throughout his youth, so he can be considered adopted.
Transcription of birth record: “Moderen er Mette Marie Jensen af Sinding, ugift, ____ ____ Gårdmand Jens Nielsen [who she lived with: her father] ___ ___ udlagt barnefader Knud Jensen ___ ____ gårdmand Erik Hansen Dam af Sinding [who he lived with].”
!MARRIAGE Parish Record, Kragelund, Viborg, Danmark, 1862-1891 (#410166)
Family moved from Kragelund to Sinding on 17 Sep 1865. In Kragelund they had been working/living with her father, Niels Rød.
!DEATH Parish Record, Sinding, Hids, Viborg, Danmark 1892-1948 p 332, Dansk Rigsarkiv,
Arkivalieronline.dk data_kirkeboeger1892_C264_H_020A_0332a-DM.
He had black hair and blue eyes. He was a grave digger and a bell ringer at the church in Sinding.