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Gyldensteen’s Gaard, a beautiful house at the corner of
Bredgade and Dronningens Tværgade, which has since been completely rebuilt into the Phoenix Hotel, was incorrectly identified as John’s house in the early 1790’s in a publisher’s footnote in Sophie Dorothea Zinn’s memoirs. In fact, John owned
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After separating from Hanne, John had several other children outside marriage. He acknowledged having three children with Anne
Christine Lynge (c.1782–1827): Frederik Christmas (1804–1865), Ferdinand Christmas (1806–unknown), and Albert Christmas (1810–c.1840). John and Anne Christine lived as a
332:. He sold it in 1804. Between 1804 and 1810, Christmas is not registered at an address in Copenhagen, but is recorded as having been at his country house Høveltegaard during this time. He owned Høveltegaard from 1799–1814 and again from 1820 until his death. In 1810 he purchased the property at
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Rebecca Hopkins. He was originally given both his father's and his paternal grandmother's surnames, and was baptized as John Christmas Smith. Through his father's side of the family (his paternal grandmother, Jane Christmas), he was a
231:, later played a large role in the sale of the islands to the United States. John and Hanne were separated on 15 June 1803. She was married two more times after that, first with doctor Johannes Lorenzen (1774–1807) and then actor Niels Simonsen, before she died only 37 years old in 1808.
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was John's grandmother's first cousin. Thomas' son married into the noble Irish
Beresford family. In Denmark, John would claim to have a closer connection to the noble Beresford family, than he actually did, and even gave a son the middle name of Beresford.
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Wilhelmine (1807–1895), Juliane Thomine (1809–unknown), John Hermann (1811–1818), and Wilhelm Julius (1815–1890). These children went on to use their mother's surname Boldt, although they seem to have been baptized as Christmas.
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