Pederline Marie Hansen aka Marie was born and raised in the village of Bernstorffsminde in Brahetrolleborg parish in what was then Svendborg county. The village is located on the island of Fyn (Funen in English).
Her father Martin Hansen (1831-1898) was a cobbler ("skomager" in Danish). Her mother's name was Karen Kirstine Mandrupsen (1835-1897). Both parents were also born and raised in Brahetrolleborg parish.
Marie had four sisters and two brothers.
In 1886 or 1887, Marie immigrated to the United States from Denmark, settling in Chicago, Illinois where she found work as a seamstress and a domestic.
In 1891 in Chicago, she bore a daughter by husband Peter Walker, a mixed race Afro-Caribbean immigrant from the Danish West Indies [today the U.S. Virgin Islands] . The girl grew up to be a nurse and writer, known under the name Nella Larsen.
The following year in 1892, also in Chicago, Marie bore a daughter, Anna Elizabeth aka Lizzie (married name Gardner) by her second husband, fellow Danish immigrant Peter Larsen.
Whereas Nella settled in New York City and also lived in Nashville and in Copenhagen, Denmark for longer periods of time, Marie and Peter relocated to the city of Santa Monica in Los Angeles County in 1924.
Marie died on September 17, 1951 at 6:40 a.m. at Santa Monica Hospital at 1250 16th Street where she was admitted on September 9 after falling in the hallway in her home at 1533 Centinela Avenue in Santa Monica, fracturing her right shoulder. She was suffering from "generalized atherosclerosis and senility".
NOTE: Since 1995, Santa Monica Hospital has been owned by UCLA Medical Center and renamed as such.
On the death certificate, she was listed a widow. Peter Larsen aka Peter Larson had died in Hollywood, Los Angeles from pneumonia and cancer of the larynx in late January 1945. The couple had been separated since 1934.
NOTE: It is unknown when and where her first husband/partner Peter Walker died.
A committal service for Marie aka Mary occurred on September 19, 1951, using the Center Grave of Division A, Lot 216, Cedars Plot. She was buried next to Peter Larsen aka Peter Larson, but no headstones or plaques were purchased for their graves.
NOTE: In United States records, Marie's name was often spelled Mary Larsen or Mary Larson, either by choice or by mistake. On her death certificate, her name is spelled Mary Larson.
NOTE:
Anna Elizabeth Gardner nee Larsen died in 1976 in Los Angeles. She was divorced from George Gardner Sr. with one adult son George Gardner Jr. Anna suffered from multiple sclerosis aka MS for a number of years and was cared for by her mother.
Sources:
My own research as well as info found in the 2006 biography "In Search of Nella Larsen. A Biography of the Color Line" by American scholar and professor at Cornell University, George Hutchinson.
Her father Martin Hansen (1831-1898) was a cobbler ("skomager" in Danish). Her mother's name was Karen Kirstine Mandrupsen (1835-1897). Both parents were also born and raised in Brahetrolleborg parish.
Marie had four sisters and two brothers.
In 1886 or 1887, Marie immigrated to the United States from Denmark, settling in Chicago, Illinois where she found work as a seamstress and a domestic.
In 1891 in Chicago, she bore a daughter by husband Peter Walker, a mixed race Afro-Caribbean immigrant from the Danish West Indies [today the U.S. Virgin Islands] . The girl grew up to be a nurse and writer, known under the name Nella Larsen.
The following year in 1892, also in Chicago, Marie bore a daughter, Anna Elizabeth aka Lizzie (married name Gardner) by her second husband, fellow Danish immigrant Peter Larsen.
Whereas Nella settled in New York City and also lived in Nashville and in Copenhagen, Denmark for longer periods of time, Marie and Peter relocated to the city of Santa Monica in Los Angeles County in 1924.
Marie died on September 17, 1951 at 6:40 a.m. at Santa Monica Hospital at 1250 16th Street where she was admitted on September 9 after falling in the hallway in her home at 1533 Centinela Avenue in Santa Monica, fracturing her right shoulder. She was suffering from "generalized atherosclerosis and senility".
NOTE: Since 1995, Santa Monica Hospital has been owned by UCLA Medical Center and renamed as such.
On the death certificate, she was listed a widow. Peter Larsen aka Peter Larson had died in Hollywood, Los Angeles from pneumonia and cancer of the larynx in late January 1945. The couple had been separated since 1934.
NOTE: It is unknown when and where her first husband/partner Peter Walker died.
A committal service for Marie aka Mary occurred on September 19, 1951, using the Center Grave of Division A, Lot 216, Cedars Plot. She was buried next to Peter Larsen aka Peter Larson, but no headstones or plaques were purchased for their graves.
NOTE: In United States records, Marie's name was often spelled Mary Larsen or Mary Larson, either by choice or by mistake. On her death certificate, her name is spelled Mary Larson.
NOTE:
Anna Elizabeth Gardner nee Larsen died in 1976 in Los Angeles. She was divorced from George Gardner Sr. with one adult son George Gardner Jr. Anna suffered from multiple sclerosis aka MS for a number of years and was cared for by her mother.
Sources:
My own research as well as info found in the 2006 biography "In Search of Nella Larsen. A Biography of the Color Line" by American scholar and professor at Cornell University, George Hutchinson.
Pederline Marie Hansen aka Marie was born and raised in the village of Bernstorffsminde in Brahetrolleborg parish in what was then Svendborg county. The village is located on the island of Fyn (Funen in English).
Her father Martin Hansen (1831-1898) was a cobbler ("skomager" in Danish). Her mother's name was Karen Kirstine Mandrupsen (1835-1897). Both parents were also born and raised in Brahetrolleborg parish.
Marie had four sisters and two brothers.
In 1886 or 1887, Marie immigrated to the United States from Denmark, settling in Chicago, Illinois where she found work as a seamstress and a domestic.
In 1891 in Chicago, she bore a daughter by husband Peter Walker, a mixed race Afro-Caribbean immigrant from the Danish West Indies [today the U.S. Virgin Islands] . The girl grew up to be a nurse and writer, known under the name Nella Larsen.
The following year in 1892, also in Chicago, Marie bore a daughter, Anna Elizabeth aka Lizzie (married name Gardner) by her second husband, fellow Danish immigrant Peter Larsen.
Whereas Nella settled in New York City and also lived in Nashville and in Copenhagen, Denmark for longer periods of time, Marie and Peter relocated to the city of Santa Monica in Los Angeles County in 1924.
Marie died on September 17, 1951 at 6:40 a.m. at Santa Monica Hospital at 1250 16th Street where she was admitted on September 9 after falling in the hallway in her home at 1533 Centinela Avenue in Santa Monica, fracturing her right shoulder. She was suffering from "generalized atherosclerosis and senility".
NOTE: Since 1995, Santa Monica Hospital has been owned by UCLA Medical Center and renamed as such.
On the death certificate, she was listed a widow. Peter Larsen aka Peter Larson had died in Hollywood, Los Angeles from pneumonia and cancer of the larynx in late January 1945. The couple had been separated since 1934.
NOTE: It is unknown when and where her first husband/partner Peter Walker died.
A committal service for Marie aka Mary occurred on September 19, 1951, using the Center Grave of Division A, Lot 216, Cedars Plot. She was buried next to Peter Larsen aka Peter Larson, but no headstones or plaques were purchased for their graves.
NOTE: In United States records, Marie's name was often spelled Mary Larsen or Mary Larson, either by choice or by mistake. On her death certificate, her name is spelled Mary Larson.
NOTE:
Anna Elizabeth Gardner nee Larsen died in 1976 in Los Angeles. She was divorced from George Gardner Sr. with one adult son George Gardner Jr. Anna suffered from multiple sclerosis aka MS for a number of years and was cared for by her mother.
Sources:
My own research as well as info found in the 2006 biography "In Search of Nella Larsen. A Biography of the Color Line" by American scholar and professor at Cornell University, George Hutchinson.
Her father Martin Hansen (1831-1898) was a cobbler ("skomager" in Danish). Her mother's name was Karen Kirstine Mandrupsen (1835-1897). Both parents were also born and raised in Brahetrolleborg parish.
Marie had four sisters and two brothers.
In 1886 or 1887, Marie immigrated to the United States from Denmark, settling in Chicago, Illinois where she found work as a seamstress and a domestic.
In 1891 in Chicago, she bore a daughter by husband Peter Walker, a mixed race Afro-Caribbean immigrant from the Danish West Indies [today the U.S. Virgin Islands] . The girl grew up to be a nurse and writer, known under the name Nella Larsen.
The following year in 1892, also in Chicago, Marie bore a daughter, Anna Elizabeth aka Lizzie (married name Gardner) by her second husband, fellow Danish immigrant Peter Larsen.
Whereas Nella settled in New York City and also lived in Nashville and in Copenhagen, Denmark for longer periods of time, Marie and Peter relocated to the city of Santa Monica in Los Angeles County in 1924.
Marie died on September 17, 1951 at 6:40 a.m. at Santa Monica Hospital at 1250 16th Street where she was admitted on September 9 after falling in the hallway in her home at 1533 Centinela Avenue in Santa Monica, fracturing her right shoulder. She was suffering from "generalized atherosclerosis and senility".
NOTE: Since 1995, Santa Monica Hospital has been owned by UCLA Medical Center and renamed as such.
On the death certificate, she was listed a widow. Peter Larsen aka Peter Larson had died in Hollywood, Los Angeles from pneumonia and cancer of the larynx in late January 1945. The couple had been separated since 1934.
NOTE: It is unknown when and where her first husband/partner Peter Walker died.
A committal service for Marie aka Mary occurred on September 19, 1951, using the Center Grave of Division A, Lot 216, Cedars Plot. She was buried next to Peter Larsen aka Peter Larson, but no headstones or plaques were purchased for their graves.
NOTE: In United States records, Marie's name was often spelled Mary Larsen or Mary Larson, either by choice or by mistake. On her death certificate, her name is spelled Mary Larson.
NOTE:
Anna Elizabeth Gardner nee Larsen died in 1976 in Los Angeles. She was divorced from George Gardner Sr. with one adult son George Gardner Jr. Anna suffered from multiple sclerosis aka MS for a number of years and was cared for by her mother.
Sources:
My own research as well as info found in the 2006 biography "In Search of Nella Larsen. A Biography of the Color Line" by American scholar and professor at Cornell University, George Hutchinson.
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