Following is a portion of a verbatim Google Danish>English machine translation of the Wikipedia article for Blans, Denmark. It is POSSIBLE that Wilhelm lived here with Karna around the time that their son Wilhelm was born.

"Blans (German: Blans) is a small town in Jutland with 519 inhabitants (2010), located in Ullerup Parish, between Aabenraa and Sønderborg. Blans located in Sonderborg, and belong to Region Midtjylland."

And below is a document I found interesting because of the names of the child and the father. The witnesses to Wilhelm's baptism in 1872 were Jes Jessen and Hans Detlefsen, both of Blans.


Denmark Births and Christenings, 1631-1900s

Name: Jes Jessen
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 jun 1784
Cristening Date: 27 jun 1784
Christening Age: 0
Christening Place: BOV, AABENRAA-SONDERBORG, DENMARK
Father: Detleff Jessen
Mother: Ingeburg Jessen

I have no idea, of course, if there is any significance to the fact that the names "Jes Jessen" and "Detleff" appear in the same family but still ..... T.N.


And the record below MAY refer to one of the witnesses:

Danmark – vigslar, 1631 – 1900-talet Denmark Marriages, 1631-1900s

Name: Hans Peter Detlefsen
Age: 25 years
Gender: Male
Birth Date: Abt.1839
Marriage Date: 5 aug 1864
Marriage Place: Sonderborg, Sonderborg, Denmark
Spouse: Benedicte Brigitte Marie Gebhardt
Spouse's Age: 27 years
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Birth Date: CA.1837
Father: Jorgen Detlefsen
Mother: Marie Hansen
Spouse's Father: Frederick Gebhardt
Spouse's Mother: Catharine Marie Moller


And here is an interesting document. Apparently it's a transcript of the 1845 census for Blans:

Name: Jes Jessen Age: 61 Marital status: Verheir.
Occupation: Taglöhner Birth place: Auenbüll
Census year: FT-1845 County: Sønderborg District: Nybøl Parish: Ullerup Place name: Blans
Title no /address: Instengebäude Household-/ family no: 25 F2 Source entry no: C5732 Record no: 872