{"id":1771,"date":"2015-09-15T08:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T22:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2015-10-26T07:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T20:04:20","slug":"relatively-speaking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"Relatively Speaking 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relatively Speaking 2<\/p>\n

I knew the Danish great grandfather\u2019s mother and family had lived at Vallensbaek, a small community in southern Copenhagen as some births and census returns appear in early records.\u00a0 It is still a rural community albeit with a substantial housing development on its coastal side.\u00a0 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vallensb%C3%A6k<\/a><\/p>\n

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A kind staff member at the hostel checked the travel details so off I went.\u00a0 When I disembarked from the train the appropriate number bus was just pulling in so hopped aboard and told the driver my destination to receive an acknowledging nod and grunt.\u00a0 We hadn\u2019t gone too far through roads of rich green trees that I had doubts about it.\u00a0 When we reached the turnaround point at Ballerup I knew for certain as it was north of the station and I had intended going south.\u00a0\u00a0 Eventually we returned to the origin, the driver pointed out the correct start point and I started again.\u00a0 However, census returns show that the great grandfather\u2019s maternal grandmother was born at Ballerup so the trip was not entirely wasted.\u00a0\u00a0 No doubt it was rural in the 1700\/1800s but the little I saw from the front seat of a bus was unremarkable residential.<\/p>\n

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Streets in Ballerup<\/p><\/div>\n

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The village of Vallensbaek was reached through more rich greenery and countryside.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very pretty village with swathes of green grass, a village pond with resident ducks, neat tidy houses some of which were thatched and an ancient church and churchyard now with a modern round glass church alongside it.<\/p>\n

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Vallensbaek Pond<\/p><\/div>\n

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The church was closed and has been for some time due to fire but it was possible to see through some of the windows to just make out some of the wall paintings and the carved wooden baptismal font.\u00a0 The churchyard was neat, tidy and peaceful.\u00a0 With few exceptions I saw no tombstones post late 1980s. I had not expected to see family tombstones as census returns reveal that our ancestors were very poor.\u00a0\u00a0 The tombstones were an eclectic mix of sizes and styles and many had nick knacks around them.<\/p>\n

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Vallensbaek Church<\/p><\/div>\n

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Through window of old church<\/p><\/div>\n

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The new church was a complete contrast from the original one built in the 12th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 It too was closed but I was able to see a little through the glass walls.\u00a0 Trees have been planted around it and time will soften the difference.<\/p>\n

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New and Old<\/p><\/div>\n

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Relatively Speaking 2 I knew the Danish great grandfather\u2019s mother and family had lived at Vallensbaek, a small community in southern Copenhagen as some births and census returns appear in early records.\u00a0 It is still a rural community albeit with a substantial housing development on its coastal side.\u00a0 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vallensb%C3%A6k   A kind staff member at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copenhagen","category-family-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}