Ancestors

Jacob Giønge Tønder

Tønder is an old name in the Dano-Norwegian official class, and the household reads exactly like the small officialdom of a wealthy port: crown appointment, a merchant wife, a son at the academy, servants in the house. He was born into the office he held. His father Peder Tønder, a clerk out of Stavanger, had been given both the magistracy and the customs controllership in 1720 by the man whose daughter he married, and held them until he died in 1770; that man was Jacob Giønge, and this Jacob carried his name.

In 1774 he was magistrate of Skien, not yet of Kragerø. On 14 July that year he married Hedevig Elisabeth Heuch at Kragerø, at home and by royal licence. The clerk wrote "Hr. Byefogd i Scheen Jacob Giønge Tønder". Their son Henrich Jørgen was born at Skien. By 1801 he was magistrate of Kragerø, his father's old post.

He died in the post. The burial register of Kragerø enters him on 10 November 1806, dead on the 3rd at sixty two, of Apoplexia, and gives his birthplace as the town itself.

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Cite: Heirology, "Jacob Giønge Tønder (1745-1806)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/jacob-gionge-tonder-1745-1806-783057.