Brede Bredesen SANDER's Children

Brede Bredesen SANDER's daughters (Decorah, IA: Borlaug, Probably before 1881). Courtesy of Verla Williams. Digitally restored by Mark D. Williams. Clockwise from top: Anna, Henrietta, Ellen, Jane.


Brede Bredesen SANDER's sons (Howard, SD: Lubeck, Probably before 1881). Courtesy of Verla Williams. Digitally restored by Mark D. Williams. From left: Anton, Bernt, Brede Jr.


Children of Brede Bredesen SANDER (Probably before 1881). B/W copies courtesy of Verla Williams. Digitally restored by Mark D. Williams. From left: Jane, Anna, Ellen, Henrietta, Anton, Bernt, Brede Jr.

Gunne "Jane" Bredesdtr (SANDER) Hanson

Portrait. Jane (SANDER) Hanson (Decorah, IA: Solberg, Bef. 1930). Image courtesy of Verla Williams. Digitally restored by Mark D. Williams.

Jane SANDER was born 10 Nov 1847 in Grue, Hedmark, NOR and was baptized on 23 Jan 1848. The Grue parish records list her as Gunne Bredesdtr.


Detail of Hedmark fylke, Grue, Ministerialbok nr. 8 (1847-1858), Fødte og døpte 1848, side 13. Image courtesy of Digitalarkivet.

Jane's mother was Anne Gudmundsdtr. We know that Anne was born on 5 Aug 1821, the daughter of Gudmund Hansen and Anne Arnesdtr and that Anne and Brede were not married. Brede would marry Karen Huseby on 6 Apr 1848, only a few short months after Jane was born.

The SANDER family tradition was that Jane left her mother to go with Brede, Karen, and her half-brothers Brede Jr. and Anton, in order to have a chance at a better life in America.

Jane (SANDER) Hanson: Family Group Sheet

Jane SANDER married Charles M. Hanson (1845-1921) on 22 Dec 1866 and together they had six children that lived into adulthood: Bernt "Ben" Martinus, Clara Matilda, Mina "Minnie" Amelia, Carl Oscar, Annetta "Nettie" Gustava and Hannah Maria.


Family Group Sheet. Jane (SANDER) Hanson (1847-1930). Image courtesy of Williams Family Pages.

We know a little bit about Charles Hanson from his biography in Past and Present of Winneshiek County, Iowa by Edwin C. Bailey.



"Charles M. Hanson." Edwin C. Bailey, Past and Present of Winneshiek County Iowa, Vol. 2 (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1913), pp. 553-554. Images courtesy of Spelhaug.org.

UPDATE (2 Aug 2018): The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America records at Ancestry.com give the marriage date for Jane Sander and Charles Hanson as 22 Dec 1866. This is more likely accurate than 1867 as shown in the Family Group Sheet above.

1870 US Federal Census: Charles Hanson Family

Detail of 1870 US Census. Image courtesy of Ancestry.com.

117 / 115 / Hanson, Carelius [Charles] / 25 / M / W / farm laborer / Norway
_____, Jane / 22 / F / W / keeping house / Norway
_____, B. M. / 2 / M / W / Iowa
_____, Clara M. / 1/12 / F / W / Iowa
_____, Martin / 56 / M / W / farm laborer / Norway

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Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Madison, Winneshiek, Iowa; Roll: M593_426; Page: 238A; Image: 479; Family History Library Film: 545924.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.

Gravestone: Klara Mathilde Hansen

Charles and Jane Hanson's first daughter, Klara Mathilde, was born on 29 May 1870 and died very young on 5 Mar 1873. She was buried in the Hanson family plot in the East Madison (Vold) Cemetery.


Gravestone. Klara M. Hanson (Madison, Winneshiek, IA: East Madison (Vold) Cemetery). Image courtesy of Verla Williams.

Following Norwegian tradition, when Jane gave birth to a baby girl on 28 Aug that year, they named her after her older sister.

UPDATE (6 Mar 2015): The Winneshiek County, IA, GenWeb site has a photo of an older individual gravestone for Klara.


Gravestone. Klara Mathilde Hansen (29 May 1870-5 Mar 1873). Image courtesy of Winneshiek County, IA, Genweb site (2008).

1880 US Federal Census: Charles Hanson Family

Detail of 1880 US Census. Image courtesy of Ancestry.com.

28 / 31/ Hanson, Charles / W / M / 35 / Farmer / Norway
_____, Jane / W / F / 32 / Wife / Keeping house / Norway
_____, Bernt M. / W / M / 12 / Son / At School / Iowa
_____, Clara M. / W / F / 6 / Daughter / At School / Iowa
_____, Minnie A. / W / F / 4 / Daughter / Iowa
_____, Carl Oscar / W / M / 2 / Son / Iowa
Hanson, Martin / W / M / 66 / Father / Laborer / Norway

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Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Madison, Winneshiek, Iowa; Roll: 370; Family History Film: 1254370; Page: 182D; Enumeration District: 351; Image: 0554.
Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.
Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Hanson Family Children

Hanson family children (c. 1882). Image courtesy of Verla Williams. From left: Clara, Nettie, Oscar, Ben, and Minnie.