My Jensen tree comes from Bastholm Vrejlev, Hjørring Denmark, relatives have also lived in Tars, Rakkeby, Ugilt, and other surrounding areas. This is a little history on Hjørring and the Jensen family name.
Hjørring is the main town and the administrative seat of Hjørring Municipality, Region Nordjylland, Denmark. The population amounts to 24,892 inhabitants (1 January 2010). It is one of Denmark's oldest towns, and it celebrated its 750-year anniversary as a market town in 1993. Archaeological discoveries show that the area was already populated 10,000 years ago. A major fire burned down much of the town in 1819. The ancient capital of the Vendsyssel region, Hjørring was chartered in 1243 and remains the commercial centre of the district. The Church of St. Catharine dates from about 1250; the churches of St. Hans and St. Olai date from the 12th century.
Jensen is a Danish and Norwegian originally patronymic surname, literally meaning son of Jens. Today however it is used as a generic surname for both men and women. The prefix Jens- is the most common Danish version of the biblical Ioanne (English: John). Jensen is the most common surname in Denmark where it is shared by about 5% (288,050 people as of 1 January 2007) of the population. Since 1 January 2001 the number of people in Denmark with the surname Jensen has been reduced from 312,396 as people have changed to more unique surnames. It should be mentioned, that people called for example Uffe Ellemann-Jensen or Jens Martin Jensen Vestergaard are not counted as people having the surname Jensen by Statistics Denmark. Jensen is also very common in Norway, where it is the ninth most common surname, but nevertheless shared by about 0.5% of the population (plus 0.1% spelled Jenssen). The name is also in use in the Faroe Islands and in Schleswig-Holstein.
