It would appear his mother went home to her parents to have this, her first child, as the family was living in Sinding at the time.
CENSUS 1870 (Sinding, Viborg)
77, age 5.
!MARRIAGE Parish Register, Balle, Viborg, Danmark, 1886-1891, p. 104 (53/72), n. 3 (Rigsarkivet Danmark,
Arkivalieronline.dk).
In 1906 he was the owner of a farm on Overgård Mark, Balle Sogn. The census, CENSUS 1906 (Balle, Viborg)
251 shows the family with their birthdates.