Anders Kjaerulf 1420 Family

Children (there were probably more but not yet identified)
Ane Andersdatter Kjaerulf	b. 1457 Kappelgaard, Aaby sogn, Jutland peninsula, Denmark	d. 1525 Aalborg, Nordjyland, Denmark	m. Anders Clementsen Munk #
Peder Andersen Kjaerulf	b. abt 1500 Aslundgaard, Vadum Sogn, Den	d. abt 1570 Ostre Haine, Vadum Sogn, Den.	m. Karen Berthelsdatter Hørby, af Vesterbaek (dau. of Bertel Andersen Hørby and Karen Lauridsdatter)#
Jens Andersen Kjaerulf	b. abt 1485 Vadum, Aalborg, Nordjyland, Den	d. abt 1532 Haine, Vadum, Vadum, Kaer, Alborg, Den	m. ? Hansdatter Bonde
Anders Andersen Kjaerulf	b. 1490 Vadum, Kaer, Aalborg, Den	d. 1577 Aalborg, Den	m. Maren Bertelsdatter (dau. of Bertel Andersen Hørby and Karen Lauridsdatter)#

Children (there were probably more but not yet identified)

Ane Andersdatter Kjaerulf

b. 1457 Kappelgaard, Aaby sogn, Jutland peninsula, Denmark

d. 1525 Aalborg, Nordjyland, Denmark

m. Anders Clementsen Munk #

Peder Andersen Kjaerulf

b. abt 1500 Aslundgaard, Vadum Sogn, Den

d. abt 1570 Ostre Haine, Vadum Sogn, Den.

m. Karen Berthelsdatter Hørby, af Vesterbaek (dau. of Bertel Andersen Hørby and Karen Lauridsdatter)#

Jens Andersen Kjaerulf

b. abt 1485 Vadum, Aalborg, Nordjyland, Den

d. abt 1532 Haine, Vadum, Vadum, Kaer, Alborg, Den

m. ? Hansdatter Bonde

Anders Andersen Kjaerulf

b. 1490 Vadum, Kaer, Aalborg, Den

d. 1577 Aalborg, Den

m. Maren Bertelsdatter
(dau. of Bertel Andersen Hørby and Karen Lauridsdatter)#

The research here has been created by the Kjaerulf family researchers over the years. My records are interconnected and the actual historical records are developed here briefly. The quote below give some credence to the source of the name and is in the location of my "Skipper Clement" family.

The family crest includes a wolf's profile which refers back to Kjaer and wolf. Kjaer refers to a swamp or marsh implying a "swamp fox", or "forest rabbit" . Spelling vary widely: "Kerul, Kerull, Keruld, Kierul, Kieruel, Kieruld, Kierull, Kierulf, Kierulff, Kjeurlf, Kjerulff, Kjaerulf, Kjaerulff, Kjaerulf, Kjaerulff, Kaerulf, Kaerulf, Kaerulf, Kjaerulv, Kjerrulf, etc." Even the original farm name is similar known as Cherool.

"The majority of the Norwegian noble families were probably not much above the free farmers among who they lived, and only few of them were sufficiently wealthy to travel to foreign countries to obtain advanced education beyond what was available at home, and by 1648 some of these families nobility seems to have been forgotten." [Klitgaard p3-4]

Anders Andersen Kjærulf, He seems to have been born about 1410 and lived in 1448 in Fogedgaard in Vadum parish and was bailiff in Kjær district3. He is also listed in 1450 and 14544, but he probably died before 1458, since Thord Nielsen both in that year and in 1460 is listed as bailiff in Kjær district.1 The fact that none of Anders Kjærulf’s sons became bailiff may lead us to believe that he died before they came of age. However the bailiff position was apparently occupied from the Middle Ages and until the end of the 17th century, when it was filled by the mentioned Thord Nielsen. We do not know the name of Anders Kjærulf’s wife. They apparently had at least three sons, and Dyrskjøt records correctly that Skipper Klement’s mother was a Kjærulf, so she can best be placed here. We then get the following descendants:

A.? N, N, Andersdaughter Kjærulf, married to Anders N. N. in Vedsted in Aaby parish, with whom she besides other children2 had the son Klement Andersen, b. 1484.3 He was executed in 1536, became known in history as Skipper Klement, about whom Dyrskjøt says he betrayed himself and the Kjærulfs by employing poorly planned revolutionary methods. Among other well known persons in this family we must list the minister in Nakskov Laurids Mortensen Vedsted (father of the Thura family and his combative brother Peder Mortensen Vedsted, mayor of Nakskov around 1660.

B. Peder Andersen Kjærulf, is mentioned by Dyrskjøt 1454, but nothing else is known about him. Dyrskjøt records that he had two sons:
1. Anders Pedersen Kjærulf, about whom nothing else is known.
2. Bertel Pedersen Kjærulf, “was married sins out.”4 Anders Kjærulf in

Raageleje5 may be from this branch. He got his arrears from the Crown on

April 1, 1586 (1⁄2 barrel of cod), forgiven because of poor fishing season.6
C. Jens Andersen Kjærulf, see the Kornumgaard line.
D. Anders Andersen Kjærulf is mentioned by Dyrskjøt 1470. “He owned Aslund,

Fogedgaard and much other property.” Dyrskjøt does not mention him as bailiff in Kjær district. However he is recorded as such in 1485 when after St. Knuds [Klitgaard p8-9]

Source:
Dahl-Nielsen website. "Fra Skipper Clements Til Gorm" http://hrann.dk/?page_id=426
Census records - Dansk Demografisk Database, http://ddd.dda.dk/