Sources

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Danish records of this period spell names freely. Sidsel also appears as Zidsel, Ane Marie as Anne Marie, and Lars Laursen Andrup as Laurs, Laus or Lars Andrup. Quotations keep the spelling of the original.

Parish, prison and marriage records

Original records from the Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet). Most links open a copy of the page on Familien fra Carolinevej; the Funder register opens in Arkivalieronline.

Nors parish register, baptisms 1786. Sidsel's baptism confirmed in Nors church on 2 April 1786: "en betlerskes barn Sidsels dåb konfirmeret" (the baptism of a beggar woman's child, Sidsel, confirmed).
Viborg Tugthus, prisoner register 1807–08. Sidsel Rolandsdatter, prisoner no. 1433, aged 21, one year's labour, released 19 September 1808; cross-reference to no. 591.
Aalborg, Budolfi parish register, baptisms 1809, no. 28. Ane Marie, born 16 May and baptised at home 17 May 1809. Mother "Arrestantinde Sidsel Rolandsdatter"; the father named is Peder Olesen. Baptised by Hr. Henneberg.
Aarhus, Vor Frue parish register, marriages 1810. Marriage of Christian Peder Christiansen and Sidsel Rolandsdatter, 19 December 1810.
Aarhus, Vor Frue parish register, marriages 1824, no. 10. Lars Laursen Andrup, 51, whose marriage to Mette Johanne Laursdatter was dissolved by licence of 27 February 1824, living by refuse and night-soil work outside Mølleporten, permitted by royal licence of 18 August 1824 to marry Zidsel Rolandsdatter, 39, "Enke efter afgangne Natmand Christian Peter", living in the night-soil men's house outside Mølleporten.
Storring parish register, confirmations 1827, girls no. 4. Ane Marie Peders Datter, Storring, born 16 May 1809; entered under Lars Larsen Andrup and Sidsel Rolands Datter.
Storring parish register, marriages 1828. Marriage of Jens Poulsen and Ane Marie Pedersdatter, 26 April 1828 (the priest's and the parish clerk's copies).
Census returns 1834, 1840, 1845 and 1850. Lars Andrup and Sidsel in Storring (1834, 1845, 1850); Sidsel in Viborg Tugthus (1840); Jens Poulsen and Ane Marie in Storring (1834–1850).
Viborg Tugthus 1818 and 1838; Odense Tugthus 1841. Sidsel's later entries in the prison registers.
Storring parish register, burials 1854, no. 7. Sidsel Rolandsdatter, widow of the late glazier Lars Andrup, Storring poorhouse. Died 30 April, buried 3 May 1854. "She was badly burned in a fire in Storring village and was therefore taken to the county hospital, where she died; but she was buried in Storring."
Storring parish register, burials 1874. Ane Marie Pedersdatter, "Datter af Peder Olesen af Aalborg, Enke efter Jens Poulsen af Storring, født i Aalborg", aged 64. Died 26 April, buried 3 May 1874.
Funder parish register, marriages 1875, no. 2. Niels Jensen, bachelor and miller's journeyman, born in Storring on 2 February 1848, son of the cottager Jens Poulsen and his wife Ane Marie Pedersdatter, both deceased, married Thrine Magrethe Leonhardsen Franck on 25 July 1875.

Court records and transcripts

Judgment of Hjerm-Ginding herred court, Holstebro, 14 December 1792. From Viborg Tugthus, prisoner case no. 379. Transcribed by Helle Nielsen and Inge Rasmussen. Anne Marie Hansdatter, 48, with her children Juliane, Birgithe Catrine and Zidsel.

Local history and studies

"Peter Wollesen alias Peder Olesen alias Peder Pedersen". Unpublished study, revised October 2016, drawing on parish, prison, census and Supreme Court records.
"Kvinden, der bedrev mystiske kunster. Om Sidsel Rolandsdatter". Galten Egnsarkiv, Annales 1986, with an afterword. Based on the Viborg Landsoverret verdict of 12 December 1837 and the Storring church books.
Anders C. Svalgaard, Natmænd og Rakkere i Thy og Hanherred. The passage on Sidsel Rolandsdatter, citing the Nors poor-relief records (Nors Sogns Fattigprotokol 1756–1834).
Projekt Nors: Sidsel Rolandsdatter. Arkiv Thy.
Projekt Nors: Sidsel Rolandsdatters døtre Anne Marie og Johanne Cathrine. Arkiv Thy, from the Nors poor-relief records, the Danish Chancellery letters and the research of Inge Rasmussen.
kartoffeltysker.com: the family page. Niels Jensen and Thrine Frank, their daughter Jensine Kristine Jensen and Jens Julius Hansen, from the parish registers of Kragelund, Funder, Søby, Søvind and Silkeborg.

Family history compilations

Compiled family trees are useful guides to the records, but the records themselves are cited wherever they have been seen.

Familien fra Carolinevej (Allan Jensen). Entries for Sidsel Rolandsdatter, her parents, partners and children, Ane Marie Pedersdatter, Jens Poulsen, Niels Jensen and Peder Olesen, with copies of the records.

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