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79:, Camilla Marie Nielsen was one of six children, but the only daughter, of the estate owner Jens Jensen (1823–1878) and his wife Ane Kirstine née Kjølsen (1827–1899). In 1881, she married Andreas Frederik Larsen, a workman, with whom she had one child, Jens Frederik (1881). After the marriage was dissolved in 1903, she married the engine driver Christen Nielsen.
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