The Eliassens were a long line of Blacksmiths (Smede) hailing from the SORO district and particularly from Slagelse Denmark,, 1798, with the patriarch Niels Eliassen marrying Ane Pedersdatter there about that year.

A daughter was born in the next year but there MUST have been other siblings before ANDERS Eliassen was born in 1809 in Slagelse. Anders married Inger Dorthea OLSEN in 1834. It is noticeable that Inger was not registered as OLESDATTER -an unhappy system of constantly changing surnames that makes it impossible to trace Scandinavian families backward before about 1800 - so you cannot tell which Grandfather had YOUR Elias or Niels or Peder as his son and thus identify your male cousins from that cohort of your ancestry.

9 more years passed before Emil Ludwig Anderson Eliasen was born to Inger and Anders in 1843 - So again there must be several more Eliasens who are ancestors but it seems the tradition of retaining your fathers name continued within the baptismal records. Emil Ludwig married a Margaret Sophia Dorethea Tiedmann in Copenhagen's German Church in 1865 and his first-born was named CARL WILHEM ANDERSON ELIASSEN just before Christmas of 1866. With all those Christian names, research can get nearly as tricky as working out if Ole Pedersen was your grandfather's cousin as son of Uncle Peder Elias's second or third boy!!

Carl Wilhem Anders Ellison migrated to England c 1888 and decided he was now to be called William Ellison. On his marriage certificate 1890, he put down his father's name as LOUIS Ellison and a subsequent piece of information for my research was a photograph of his ancientlooking mother, dated 1812 and bearing an address in Copenhagen on the back and the name Dorothea Eliasen. William had four siblings and I have traced the fates of three of them. ELLEN DAGMAR was the youngest and she was born in GOteBorg Sweden. She married an eminent Dutch entomologist and they travelled all over the world and wrote treatises; and they died childless leaving all their money to fund scholarships in the Netherlands.

Not that the English Ellisons would have have been beneficiaries as the whole Elasen family was scattered after Emil Ludig went off and left poor Sophia Margarethe Dorothea to bring up her family on her own in Sweden soon after Ellen Dagmar's birth. And William, having married a mere seaman's daughter from a slum area in South Shields at the mouth of the Tyne, was already cut off from the Scandinavian family and was never to see the family again. Both father and first born son were clearly personnae non gratae by 1890.

So we know that the girls got on in the world but had no children and we know that William did well too despite his low status wife; he became head of the machine room at the Yorkshire Post -one of England's most prestigious daily morning papers; all his grandchildren became Academics, Highly placed Engineers, Army Colonels, Royal Naval attaches to NATO Admirals in Sweden (Yes, Sweden! the circle closed for a short period during the Cold War with Russia as one Ellison linguist used his expertise in Polish and other E European languages). Only Einar Peder Eliasen's history is unknown exceptthe fact that he was born in 1875 in Copenhagen.