#2 of 3 generations of the Lassen family with the same name.
He grew up on
Ny Skivehus99 and
Stubbergaard100 manor farms.
Was only 23 years old when he purchased Grågård, which was to become the family farm, but showed himself quickly to be a very diligent farmer.
He passed his "studentereksamen" and had commenced law studies, and so was a very well-learned farmer. He was quite well-to-do and was active in cultivating and staking out the farm's building grounds. He wrote land titles and recorded minutes of the many societies of which he was the chairman.
BIRTH Date is from his headstone in Thorning, birthplace is from Census 1850.
Shown on Thorning Tilgangs Liste (1828 n 39 S23)
101 as arriving in Thorning from Duelund in 1828 (~26 years old) but he may have owned the farm before he moved there.
CENSUS 1834 (Graae, Thorning, Viborg S376)
102 age 32. Confirms marriage to Ane Marie Pedersen.
CENSUS 1840 (Graae, Thorning, Viborg S576)
103 age 38, widower, living on Grågård with his foster daughter Else Mathilde.
CENSUS 1845 (Graae, Thorning, Viborg S577)
104 age 43.
CENSUS 1850 (Graae, Thorning, Viborg S357)
27 shows his place of birth: Grinderslev, Viborg age 47.
CENSUS 1880 (Graae, Thorning, Viborg S355)
105 age 77, living with Dorthe Poulsdatter and daughter Birgitte.
Portrait of Jens Tobias Peder Lassen: [
https://arkiv.dk/vis/4661295 arkiv.dk F262 #21] in “Billeder fra Grågård slægten”
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Note: no parish records for Grinderslev prior to 1813: therefore no direct source verification for his birth or for his siblings.
No birth record in Sevel, Ringkøbing 1801-1815 (later siblings born there).
No confirmation record in Sevel 1812-1819.
No confirmation record in Grinderslev 1814-1820.