If this is Thursday it must be postcards, 721

 

 

 

 

 

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum, Stirling Castle, Scotland

 

 

Printed by James Fleming & Co., of Callander, Scotland, this unused postcard features a photograph from the interior of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum housed in Stirling Castle, Scotland.  The card has a divided back with the title located on the reverse at the lower left corner.  No other credits are found on the card.

 

Counties in the United Kingdom that have organized regimental armies have museums dedicated to the history of specific army regiments.  Yeomanry, Militia, and Volunteer regiments also have museums or exhibition spaces.  Many are open to the public, some are open by appointment only. 

 

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, also known as Princess Louise’s, was created under the Childers Reforms in 1881 and is a light infantry company.  In 2006, as part of the restructuring of the British Army’s infantry, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were assimilated with the Royal Scots, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers, the Roy Highland Fusiliers, the Black Watch, and the Highlanders to form the seven-battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.  Defense cuts in 2012 reduced it to a single light infantry company called Balaklava Company, Royal Regiment of Scotland.  

 

 

It was fun to find this old picture of Bopa aka FarFar’s father, “Mac” who served a mission in the Highlands of Scotland when he was about 20 years of age.  While he was there, he visited the town of Thurso where his parents had lived before emigrating.  No bag pipes, here he and a companion are dressed in the traditional kilt, bonnet, and sporran, while the third member is wearing a more traditional looking dress suit.  The picture taken around 1913 or 1914.

 

 

 "Mac" McKay in the center with two companions, ca 1913-1914

 

 

The black & white photo does not let us see if the kilts are in the MacKay plaid.  Standing in the middle, Grandpa McKay was almost 6 feet 4 inches tall, which would make it easy to pick him out even if we did not have other pictures of him to be sure.  Note the Argyll knee socks.  

 

  

 

MacKay plaid

 

 

The Regimental Museum for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is housed in Stirling Castle.  That castle was built in the 1490s and was known as the “King’s House,” or the “King’s Old Buildilng,” because it was thought to have been the private residence of King James IV.  The castle sits atop a crag giving it a strong defensive position.  The castle is considered one of the largest and most historically and architecturally important castles in Scotland.  This castle has withstood at least eight sieges including one in 1746 when Bonnie Prince Charlie tried unsuccessfully to take it.  Today the castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a tourist attraction managed by Historic Environment Scotland. 

 

The grounds are used as an open-air concert venue.  Like some other castles, Stirling Castle has ghost lore.  A maid servant to Queen Mary, called the Green Lady, has been sighted by residents of visitors.  She is thought be a warning or omen of impending danger.   There is a fee to tour the castle and the museum.  The entry ticket fee to tour the castle incudes entrance to the museum.  Public donations is the main source of support and maintenance.  The governing body is the charitable trust:  The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum Trust. 

 

 

For additional information, see:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regimental_museum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyll_and_Sutherland_Highlanders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Castle

 

 

 

 

A Family Gathering: Thompson

 

 

 

 

 

My late Valentine to extended Thompson family members.  This is the fifth book in the Family Gathering series and features Didrik “Dick” Thompson.  It was finished and published a little before Christmas 2021.  Like the others in the series, it is for interested extended family and not for sale except by invitation.  Family members who would like to order a copy can contact me, via email, message, or in the blog post comments, and I will send the appropriate link to the Blurb publishing site store.  Please note, self-publishing is expensive and the books are costly.  I would really like to be able to give them as gifts to all the family members but it is simply not possible or practical to do that. 

 

The book is mostly about Grandpa Dick but it does include pictures and information about his ancestors, his parents, siblings and his two daughters.  It also contains a section with the descendants starting with Dick’s father, Didrik Andreas Thomsen.    

Update: Harry Oliver & Sigrid Landaas and others …

 

 

 

From time to time I get questions concerning the extended family groups and this post will not address all of those but will attempt to add information and pictures as an update to a previous post about Harry Oliver and Sigrid Landaas.  In that post there was a photo of Harry with one of his Belmont Dye Works delivery cars.  A request for more information about the delivery cars arrived about the time I was already reviewing material for the next volume of the Family Gathering books.  As it turns out there are a number of old photographs in Dick Thompson’s Scrapbook Collection that are not found in the Petra Landaas Lee Trunk Collection or the Lorig Picture Box.  The delivery car question prompted a second look at Harry and Sigrid as well as a couple of other people in the Landaas, Lee, Lorig and Thompson family groups. 

 

 

 Sigrid Landaas, ca 1907

Harry Oliver, ca 1907

To recap, in the early 1900s, and at least by 1910, Harry owned and operated Belmont Dye Works, a dry-cleaning business located at 508 East Pine Street in Seattle.  After they married in 1908, Sigrid worked as the bookkeeper for the company.  This was a position she kept until they retired around 1950.  Harry’s younger brother, Walker, worked for him as a presser in the 1920s and 1930s.  It is also possible that his older brother, Johnny, worked there as a driver for a short period of time.  In later years, Johnny was a coal and oil truck driver for a fuel company.  However, it is likely Johnny’s wife, Lena, worked in the laundry section of the Dye Works for several years.  James was a farmer in the Walla Walla area of Eastern Washington.  Lenard owned and operated a café in Seattle.  Lenard worked in the shipyards beginning in 1942 and probably as long as the military needed him there during World War II. 

 

The five Oliver brothers from the left:  Lenard [Leonard] born 1896, James born 1892, John born 1885, Walker born 1894, Harry born 1888, ca 1908.

 

As I was looking at the pictures of the Belmont Dye Works delivery cars, I noticed some differences.  My youngest son is a mechanical engineer and I showed him the photos and a couple of other earlier delivery wagon pictures to see if he could help identify improvements that were made in the designs. 

 

 I.C. Lee with City Laundry delivery wagon, before 1905

 

In this photo, taken before 1905, I.C. Lee is the policeman helping the pedestrian cross the street.  Just behind him is a horse drawn City Laundry delivery wagon.  Notice the design of the wagon cab, the overhanging roof and the protective barrier in front of the driver, and the lack of a door for easier access.  Part of the laundry load is stored on top of the wagon.  We can tell that this picture was prior to 1905 because I.C. was promoted to Sergeant in that year and here he is shown as a patrolman.

 

Star Bakery horse drawn delivery wagon, 1905

 

This next photo, above, dated 1905, shows a horse drawn Star Bakery delivery wagon with a similar design to the laundry wagon.  It is not possible to see the access way into the wagon but the overall design is almost the same as the laundry wagon.  In the scrapbook margin in addition to the date, Dick Thompson noted: “$2.00 a day, those were happy days.”  He arrived in Seattle in 1903 from Bergen, Norway and this was one of the first jobs he had here in America.  

 

 

 

Harry Oliver standing by his #2 delivery car, ca 1910-1912

 

Here we see Harry Oliver standing beside his No. 2 delivery car.  The cab looks remarkably like the horse drawn cab with the horse replaced by an engine, the metal or wooden wagon wheels replaced with rubber wheels.  It is probably a 1910-1912 version model T Ford.  The model T was introduced in October 1908 as a 1909 model.  Since only a limited number of unsuccessful model C and model N delivery vans or cars were made and sold prior to the model T, it is unlikely that Harry’s delivery cars were something other than a model T.   In the earlier post the photo was a faded sepia tone but I have changed the color to black & white to increase the definition. 

 

Some things to notice about the car include the manual, bulb operated exterior horn.  Harry has his arm resting on the bulb.  Brass tubing curves under the door opening to the horn mounted on the side of the hood just above the fender.  Brass was needed in World War I efforts; therefore, this type of tubing was not used after about 1915/1916.  There is a vertical double canister, called a Prestolite tank, attached to the running board that contained water and gas for the acetylene powered head lamps.  These tanks were either installed by the dealer or sometimes by the factory, 1909-1912.  The model Ts in 1913/1914 had a horizontal tank divided into three compartments and color coded that held, gas, oil, and water.  The fenders were designed to prevent mud splatter at a low speed.  The windshield is a simple small pane held in place by rods and mounted at eye level.  Since the car is numbered 2 it suggests that he had at least two of the vehicles.  

 

 

 The two newer Belmont Dye Works delivery cars, ca 1915 and later

 

These are newer model Ts, most likely 1915 and later.  The one on the right does not yet have a door, the bench is a basic flat seat, the fenders are similar to what is shown on the 1910-1912 model.  The horn and headlights have been electrified.  Beginning in 1913/1915 the horns were mounted under the hood with louvers in the hood added to help amplify the sound of the horn.  The windshield has been enlarged in size but is still held in place by rods that extend to the floor of the cab. The car is numbered 2 and most likely dates around 1914/1915.  Harry has added more advertising information on the side of the cab including a phone number and the words, Cleaning and Pressing.

 

The still newer car at the left, 1915/1916, now has a door and an improved, more comfortable looking padded bench for the driver.  The fenders have been changed to prevent mud splatters at higher rates of speed than the older models were capable of doing.  The windshield has been further improved and is attached at the hood level.  The bigger windshield protected the occupant(s) better at increased speed levels.  The roof of the cab is slightly more curved than the earlier model.  This is the newest delivery car that Harry owned at the time. The business design has added a line in back of the bell and placed the address at the left and the phone number at the right.  

It appears from these pictures that Harry must have had a schedule for replacing his delivery cars, probably every three years or so, alternating replacement between car #1 and car #2.  Both of the pictures with Harry’s delivery cars were made into postcards, a popular option for pictures during this time period. 

 

As general interest, Ford had manufacturing plants in Seattle beginning in 1914 that closed in 1932.  The first plant building was a 5 story structure located in the South Lake Union district of Seattle and the second plant was on E. Marginal Way South Seattle.  The plant on E. Marginal Way was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 2013.  The South Lake Union plant was purchased by the W.P. Fuller Paint Company in 1936.  It changed hands a couple more times and most recently was used by Public Storage, a self-storage chain.

 

For additional information about the delivery cars, see:

 

http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/4902

http://www.mtfca.com/discu/messages/118802/179303.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company_Assembly

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1903-1919-ford-trucks1.html

https://www.historylink.org/File/875

https://www.cogapa.com/history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Vehicle_horn

 

A little something more about Harry E. Lorig, Sr.

Harry Lorig, Anchorage, Alaska, ca 1941

This wonderful photograph of Harry dressed in traditional Iniut clothing was taken while he was working in Anchorage, Alaska in 1941.  His brother-in-law, Dick Thompson, had this picture in one of his scrapbooks and had written Harry’s name on the back.

There are few photos and not very much information about Harry, the older brother of Walt Lorig, so it was a delightful surprise to find a couple of new pictures and some additional information about him.  Several years ago Walt had told me that his brother Harry left his large family around 1940 or 1941 to go to Alaska to find work.  This would have been shortly after Harry’s youngest child, Gilmore, was born in the fall of 1940.  

World War II Draft Registration card, Harry Lorig

[Note:  Deceased, with the date, has been written in the margin of the card.  Also the condition of his signature on the card.]

Since many people in the family had gone to Alaska to work in the fishing and canning industry I assumed, incorrectly as it turned out, that Harry had gone there to do that type of work also.  However, his World War II draft registration card, above, tells as different story.  It shows he was a civilian working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers building Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, and other things related to the beginning of World War II.  Much like my Dad who was needed as a construction worker during the war, Harry was exempt from the draft as an essential worker at home.  The registration card shows he was living in Federal Rooms at the time of his death 5 March 1942.  Following Harry’s death Walt went up to Alaska to take care of the funeral and burial and he told me his brother had been living in a hotel.  It now appears that rooms in a hotel or possibly a barracks were available for the people doing the work at the fort.  Fort Richardson was built during 1940-1941 and would have been completed just prior to the time Harry died.   He is buried in the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.   

Harry’s grave, Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Alaska

Bessie, Harry holding Gloria, Maggie with Betty Lou standing in front of her, Edd holding Sonny, and Walt holding Patty, 1933

There are not many photos of Bessie as a young mother so this was sort of a double bonus photo.  It looks like it was probably taken in the yard at Maggie and Edd Lorig’s home in Seattle.  This was another photo in Dick Thompson’s collection and conveniently had the names written on the back of the picture.  Although Walt said his brother could do just about any kind of work, Harry is listed as a plumber on census records. 

I will be curious to learn if any of the extended family that connects to the Lorigs has seen these or similar pictures before or knows more about Harry’s time in Alaska.

Q . . .

photo:  SM

As we who remain
Walk slowly up the hill
We see the red cardinal
Sitting on a stone

photo:  LM

Our sadness is still
Our quiet tears fall

photo:  LM

As we contemplate
The life we miss
Our hearts do not accept
The missing voice

Our sadness is new
Our sorrow tender

The echo of your voice
The sound of your laugh
The look in your eyes
The delight of new things

Our sadness is tempered
Our hope is renewed

As we see the light afar
We hope for the day ahead
You are in the breeze
You are in the sky

The veil is thin
Time disappears

photo:  LM

The children build their Cairns
Of stones, flat and rounded
The deer move through the trees
The red fox runs by

We are not alone
We are watched over

You are not alone
You are watched over

photo:  SMF

The blue stone is in your pocket
The clover flowers
The softness of sorrow
Is tempered by that surety

All is well
All is well

photo:  LM

If this is Thursday it must be postcards, 405, part 1

Sitka, Alaska

The postcard photograph is by Dedman’s Photo Shop, and distributed by I.A.A.C. Inc., Seattle, Washington.  From the informational blurb on the back of the card:  “Sitka, Alask, located on the west side of Baranof Island facing Mt. Edgecombe.  Sitka was the Russian capital of Alaska and fur trading center before Alaska was purchased by the United States in 1867.  Commercial fishing and the lumber industry are the basis for Sitka’s economy today.”  Mt. Edgecombe is considered an extinct volcano.  The last eruption was approximately 4,000 years ago.

We had a couple errands we hoped to do while in Sitka.  I knew that Adolph Landaas had gone to Alaska in1904 toward the end of the Gold Rush era and had done some prospecting.  He worked as a clerk for one mine and also worked a placer mine for a while.  He lived for several years in Fairbanks but spent his last years at the Pioneer Retirement Home in Sitka and is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Sitka.  

Adolph and Sogne Landaas, ca 1910s

[Al Johnson Photographer, Fairbanks, Alaska]

While he was living in Fairbanks, Adolph married Sogne Pedersdatter Bogge.  We do not have the exact date but can place it to between 1907 when Sogne arrived from Norway and 1918 when Adolph registered for the World War I draft and stated he was married.  Al Johnson of Fairbanks took their wedding picture.  Sogne died in 1922.  They did not have any children and Adolph never remarried and remained in Fairbanks until he moved to Sitka in 1948.  We hoped to visit the Pioneer Home and also the cemetery. 

Prospector statue in front of Pioneer Home, Sitka, Alaska

As it turned out there was a free shuttle bus from the dock that dropped us off within a couple of blocks of the Pioneer Home and it was an easy walk from there.   The Pioneer Home was established in the 1930s to provide housing for retired prospectors.  Originally only men resided in the home later quarters were added for women.  Today it is still a retirement home.  

One of our errands in Sitka was to locate the statue of the Prospector that stands in front of the Pioneer Home.  Alonzo Victor Lewis, my friend’s grandfather, made this statue.*  She had found and visited many of the statues he made and although she told us this one was in Sitka, she had not seen it.  We promised to take pictures and email them back to her.  When our dads were young, and the statue was in the process of being built, they climbed up on it and put their initials on the backpack.  When I told the staff at the Home about it they told me not to try and climb up there to see if I could find proof of this family lore.  It is bigger than life size at about 13 feet tall and 3 feet wide and appears even taller because it is on this rocky base.  There was no way I would climb up there but it was funny to think about doing it anyway.  

Hand drawn map with highlighted route to the cemetery from the Pioneer Home

The staff at the Pioneer Home was very friendly and helpful.  We soon knew which section and the approximate row in the cemetery where we should find the marker for Adolph Landaas.  All the markers are the same size and shape and lay flat on the ground.  We were told that it might be necessary to scrape some grass aside to read the stones.  Armed with a hand drawn map and a highlighted route to guide us we started off on a non-touristy path to find the cemetery.  

 This sign was the only indication that we were on the cemetery grounds

Once we reached the end of the road we found the gate we had been instructed to walk past and started climbing up the hill expecting to see a sign “Pioneer Cemetery.”  There was no sign and the cemetery turned out to be meadows within the forest.  The only indication we had that we had reached the cemetery grounds was the blue sign.  Grass and moss had covered the gravestones. 

A few markers had been partially cleared off by volunteers but the section we were looking for had not been touched yet.  The prospect of spending our shore time scraping off multiple stones loomed large.  However, I think Uncle Adolph wanted us to find him because the first stone we could see poking out of the grass had part of the right corner exposed and we could make out the numbers 195.  He died in 1958 so we pushed the grass, dirt and moss off the rest of that corner and found the complete number, 1958.   Suppressing some excitement for fear this could not possibly be the grave we removed more on the left corner to find 1875.  That was the correct birth year.  I turned to Bob and said, “You don’t suppose this is him, do you?”  Bob found a stick and started removing the rest of the debris.  Unbelievably, it was Adolph Landaas.  

Bob clearing off Adolph Landaas’s grave

Another cousin visited in 1994 and the cemetery looked like this at that time.

And, yes, there was enough time left to walk down to the totem poles in the National Historical Park and take some photos, do a little window shopping and small purchasing, get a couple of postcards, and get back to the ship without mishap.

Three of several of the beautiful totem poles at the Sitka National Historical Park are shown in the picture.  There were trails through the forest and poles along the pathways.

The ship waiting for returning passengers

Part 2 of this Thursday postcard will be posted next week.

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*  See Thursday postcard 405, part 2

Hans Christian Schrøder, part 2, his second family

Photograph of Hans Christian Schrøder taken by G. Stockel studio, Rønne, Bornholm, ca 1876



Here is a brief chronological recap of Hans Christian Schrøder’s two marriages and children as we can piece them together so far. 

The first family:

1.    Hans Christian Schrøder, born 1852 in Odense, Denmark, was married first to Hansine Margrethe Kjøller, born 1853 in Vestermarie, Bornholm, Denmark, on 30 June 1876 in Nexø, Borholm, Denmark. 
2.    They were still living in Nexø when their first child, Axel Villiam (William) was born 20 January 1877. 
3.    A few months following Axel’s birth the family moved to Vestermarie, Bornholm, where Hansine’s family lived. 
4.    When Axel was about 2 or 3 years old Hans and Hansine left him in the care of his grandparents, Jens Peter Kjøller and Ane Magdalene “Malene,” aunts, Ane Katrine* and Jane Caroline who was married to Hans Christian Skov and uncle, Hans Georg Kjøller, and moved to Helsingør north of København in the county of Frederiksborg. 
5.    Their second child, an unnamed girl, was born prematurely and died the same day 22 August 1880 while the couple was living in Helsingør. 
6.    During 1880 the census shows Hans and Hansine separated and living at different addresses but still married. 
7.    By 1885 Hansine had moved back to Bornholm and settled in the city of Rønne where her parents and brother had moved. Hansine’s two sisters and her brother-in-law remained at the farm estate in Vestermarie and Axel was living with them at that time.
8.   Hansine’s third child, a boy named Camillo Kjøller Schrøder, was born 13 June 1885 in Rønne, Bornholm, lived for one month and died 11 July 1885.  At the time that Camillo was christened in the church Hansine is listed as divorced.  Camillo’s father is not named in the church record so it is not known if he was the son of Hans Christian but is presumed to be so.
9.  Axel later moved to Rønne where his mother, his uncle Hans Georg, and his grandparents were living.  He was confirmed there in 1891.
10.    Hansine never remarried.  
11.  Axel joined the Danish navy at age 18 or 19, survived 2 shipwrecks, ended up in Chile, South America and eventually worked his way up the coasts of South and North America to land in Seattle around 1898 or 1899.
12.    Hansine moved to America, in 1903, following the deaths of her parents, and lived with her son, Axel and daughter-in-law, Anna.
13.    She died in Seattle, Washington on 9 May 1920.

The second family:

1.    During the separation or about the time of the divorce, Hans established a relationship with Ane Jensine Jensen who was born 1862 in Farum, Frederiksborg, not far from where Hans was living and working. 
2.    They had a daughter, Julie Katinka, 20 January 1882 and later that year move to København where Julie Katinka is christened at Skt. Stefan’s (Saint Stephen’s) church 10 September 1882.  That christening is also recorded in the Farum parish register with notations of the mother’s name, no father, but the child is given the surname of Schrøder, an illegitimate birth, and she was later christened in København in 1883.  The unmarried mother, Ane Jensine Jensen, was from or living in København in 1887. 
3.    On 2 January 1887 Hans and Ane Jensine, the daughter of Jens Rasumussen and Kirsten Jensdatter of Farum, are married in Skt. Johannes church, København.  At the time of their marriage Hans is listed as divorced (fraskilt) and Ane Jensine does not have a designation such as pige (maiden) or jomfrue (young woman) probably because they had had a what would be considered a common-law marriage before the event held in the church.

The children of Hans Christian Schrøder and his second wife, Ane Jensine Jensen:

1.    Julie Katinka*, sometimes uses the name Cathe, born 20 January 1882, Farum, Frederiksborg, Denmark.  Her first name is a female version of her grandfather’s, Julius Schrøder.  She was christened at Saint Stefan’s, København.
2.    Octavia (sometimes written as Oktavia or Oklavia) Eleanora Christine Marie, born 12 August 1883.  She is also listed as illegitimate but the father’s name is provided as …F (divorced) journeyman baker, Hans Christian Schrøder and a note that Hans and Ane Jensine were married in the same church, Saint Johannes, 1887.
3.    Alexia Elvira Sofie Magdalene, born 17 July 1885, died 25 April 1888, age 2 years and 9 months.  Her birth and christening are recorded at Saint Johannes.
4.    Ellen Maud Louise, born 26 September 1887, died 7 November 1887, age 6 weeks.  Her parents are not named on Skt. Stefan’s death record but the street address is provided and it is the same address as found for the christening of child #5.
5.    Alexia Elvira Sofie Magdaline, born 13 October 1889. This is a different child than #3.  It was not uncommon to give another child of the same sex the same name as a deceased sibling. Birth and Christening recorded at Saint Stefan’s.
6.    Carl Frederik Andreas, born 13 May 1891.  He is named for his uncle Carl Frederik Andreas Schrøder the older brother of Hans Christian.  Birth and Christening recorded at Saint Jakob’s. 
7.    Louise Elna Edith Agnes, born 13 September 1892.  Her name sometimes appears as Edith or Agnes.  Her birth date was taken from the 1901 & 1906 census.
8.    Hans Christian, born 9 July 1895.  His birth date was taken from the 1901 & 1906 census.

Carl Frederik Andreas Schrøder, an older brother of Hans, is listed as a witness or bondsman on the marriage record of Hans and Ane Jensine.  His occupation is given as barber.  He appears several times as a witness for christenings and is often identified as the barber Andreas Schrøder.  A sister, Elise Cathinka Schrøder* sometimes shown as Lise, also appears as a witness to several of the christenings of the children of this second marriage. 


Hans Christian and Ane Jensine together with some of their children appear on census records 1901, 1906, 1911, 1921, and 1925.  Hans Christian and his daughter, Octavia are found on the 1930 census where he is listed as widowed.  That helps date Ane Jensine’s death to between 1925 and 1930 in København, living at Amagertorv. 

The 1933, 1935, and 1940 census records are available through FamilySearch.org and the Danish digital archives but not indexed so it will be necessary to use the 1930 street address on Amagertorv and hope they didn’t move to see if we narrow the time of death for Hans Christian.  

Identified descendants from second family so far:

Julie Katinka Schrøder married Carl Didriksen, born 2 October 1875, on 7 August 1903 in København, Denmark.  They moved to Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark around 1906.  Carl was a telegraph operator in Rønne, Bornholm. 
They had five children:
1.  Ingeborg Didriksen, born 22 June 1901 in København
2.  Poul Erik Thor Didriksen, born 20 November 1904 in København
3.  Thora Esther Didriksen, born 11 June 1908 in Rønne, Bornholm
4.  Aase Wilhelmina Didriksen, born 27 February 1910, Rønne, Bornholm  [twin]
5.  Else Kristine Didriksen, born 27 February 1910, Rønne, Bornholm [twin]

Carl Frederik Andreas Schrøder married Betty Marie Axelsen, born 9 April 1893, from Norway in 1917 in Denmark. 
They had three children: 
1.    Hulda Jensine Schrøder, born 21 October 1918 in Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
2.    Olga Schrøder, born 30 April 1920, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
3.    Carl Bernhardt Schrøder, born 10 October 1922, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway


*  Axel Schroder corresponded with a Cathe Schrøder who identified herself as aunt to his children, Bill and Betty Schrøder.  Both Axel’s aunt, Ane Katrine Kjøller and his half sister, Julie Katinka sometimes used the name Cathe.  Elise Cathinka Schrøder is a less likely possibility since she tended to use the name Lise not Cathe.

The watercolor painting attributed to Hans Christian Schrøder shows a scene in København that would have been near to where the family lived.

Note:  Please see the original post about Hans Christian Schrøder for additional information.  Updates will be posted when/if new information is uncovered.