At Williamsborg Estate, 1912 [1]
Williamsborg Estate [2]
Margaretha Dorethea Friederica Martini, neé Bevensee, at her estate prior to 1890 [3]
Photos 1-3 courtesy of Anne-Lise Ulbæk, Daugård, Denmark
Williamsborg as it appears today
Williamsborg Estate:
Located in Daugård parish, Vejle county, Denmark
In 1655 the owner of the estate called Tirsbæk, Lisbeth Bryske, (1586-1674), built the manor called Bryskesborg. In 1666 her son, Steen Bille, became the owner of Bryskesborg.
In 1686 the owner was Anders Rosenkrantz. His son-in-law, Niels V. de Linde, owned the manor from 1740-46.
In 1746 Christian Linde, son of Niels V. de Linde, owned the manor. In 1757, Jørgen Hvass de Lindenpalm, husband of Christians widow, Maren, became the owner.
In 1774, the manor was handed down from Jørgen Hvass de Lindenpalm to his son-in-law Brigadier William Halling. Halling renamed it Williamsborg in 1775. Halling kept the estate until circa 1780, when he sold it to the Judge Advocate General Chr. Kallager.
Kallager kept the estate until 1784, when he sold it to the 18 year old son of a pharmacist, Joh. Fr. von Schmidten. von Schmidten managed it until 1810, when Regimental Quartermaster Jeremias Møller Secher bought it.
In 1824 it was sold to Prefect N. E. de Thygesen from Bygholm, who had to abandon it in 1827. That same year it was taken over by Chamberlain (in Danish Kammerjunker) Karl Gustav Lillienskjold. He died in 1830, and his mother and sister inherited the estate.
When the mother died in 1837, the heirs sold the estate to Carl Heinrich Martini for 26, 200 Thaler. After Martini's death in 1860 his widow, Margaretha Dorethea Friederica, managed it for 30 years. Her heirs sold it immediately after her death in 1890 to Lieutenant A. P. Frederiksen for 212, 000 Kroner.
His heirs sold it in 1902 to Baron Hans Rudolph Gustav Wedell-Wedellsborg for 180, 000 Kroner. After his death in 1954, his widow owned it until 1961, when she sold it to farmer S. E. J. Broholm for 1, 550, 000 Kroner. In 2003 the estate is managed as a modern farm.
(Information courtesy: Vejle Byhistoriske Arkiv & Stadsarkiv, Vejle, Denmark; Anne-Lise Ulbæk; Jens Rasmussen and Marianne Wedell-Wedellsborg Bush)
Daugård parish church, Vejle county, Denmark