CARL FERDINAND GUNDORPH
1844 - 1847
Carl Ferdinand Gundorph (1807 - ca. 1847)
Vesteraa 314, Aalborg
In 1844,
the former
home teacher
and
privileged
silk hat manufacturer,
Carl
Ferdinand
Gundorph
applies for
a license to
establish a match stick
factory in
his house in
Vesterå
314
in Aalborg, where
a
number of other
master craftsmen
have
their workshops
.
Gundorph
that
even before the
application
has
bought
the machines
for
production
,
describes this
in his
application
, "
in addition
to having
a unique
living inventory
for
the
common way to
fertilize
the
aforementioned
sticks
,
I have
even
designed
twain
shaving
or
cutting machines
, one of which
cuts the
sticks
round
and the second
square ".
Gundorph
gets its
license
on the 18th
of
June 1844
, but already
in 1847
he sells
his property
in
Vesterå
and moves
with his family to
a
farm
in Koldenå
at
Frederikshavn.
His wife,
Vilhelmine
Augusta
Heinze
is in the census
in
1850
listed
as
a widow
.
There are
not found anything
in
the church records
on
Gundorphs
death
,
so it
is likely
that he may
have
participated and fallen in the
3-
year
war, 1848-1850
.
Gundorphs application to the King
