Kommentarer til: Schmidt, Aneken Christine Marie (1888-1966)

Af: Preben Thorkild Clausen

Preben Thorkild Clausen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:53:19 +0000

Hi Carlos
Thank you so much for your answer to my email. You will get an expanded version of the above text per email and in english soon.
Sorry for the misspelling of your last name!

Yours
Preben

Af: Preben T. Clausen

Preben T. Clausen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:37:43 +0000

Jeg har nu etableret kontakt med Carlos Escotos, som er advokat og partner i et stort advokatfirma i Mexico City.
Hans oldefar var Peter Andresen Schmidt, som var søn af musikdirektør i Haderslev, Peter Nissen Schmidt. Der var 7 børn i familien Schmidt. To faldt i krigen, Nis og Marius Christian Schmidt. Datteren Aneken deltog i krigen som sygeplejerske. Hun blev gift, men fik ikke børn. Sønnen Peter Andresen Schmidt emigrerede til USA i 1920 og blev gift med en mexikansk dame. Datteren Christine Nicoline blev i 1917 gift med min grandonkel, Johannes Clausen. Det er her min personlige interesse kommer ind. De fik 4 børn, som jeg har kendt, men som er døde nu. Her kan være nulevende efterkommere med efternavnet Clausen. Dem kender jeg desværre ikke. Tilbage er de to yngste sønner, Christian Louis og Asbjørn Axel Schmidt, født i henholdsvis 1900 og 1903. Dem kan jeg simpelthen intet finde på, og ved derfor heller ikke om der igennem dem er nulevende efterkommere med navnet Schmidt. Assistance vil være meget velkommen.

Venlig hilsen
Preben

Af: Carlos Escoto

Carlos Escoto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:52:23 +0000

Sorry if I don’t write in danish, as it is not my language.
My great grandfather was Peter Andresen Schmidt, the older brother to Nis and Marius Christian who both died in the Great War and to Anneken, who served as a nurse.
Peter Andresen led also an interesting life. I understand he worked for a bank in the US and as part of his work he had to travel to a lot of places, including Mexico (where he met my great grandmother, Maria Antonieta Rodriguez) and to Haiti.
Peter and Ma Antonieta had three children in Mexico: Octavio, Elsbeth (in honor of his mother -Elsabeth) and Aneken (in honor of his sister).
My grandmother was Elsbeth Andresen (the registar in Mexico thought that Andresen -not Schmidt- was Peter’s last name and that’s why we always thought our last name was Andresen!!), who would tell us some stories of her uncles who fought and died in the war. To me, as a boy growing up in the 80’s in Mexico City, these stories seemed so wild and far off. I regret not being old enough to ask her more.
If I remember properly, Peter died in the 1940’s. The Mexican branch of the family tried to reconnect with the “Andresens” in Denmark and now I understand why we couldn’t. Our real last name is not “Andresen” but Schmidt! If there is any Schmidt from this family branch out there reading this, please reach out!!!