Hi,
I'm a Norwegian citizen, who's living in the UK, (due to problems with my family etc., without that I've done anything wrong, that I know of, at least, in Norway), and I have a late grandmoter from Denmark, Ingeborg Ribsskog, who said that she was from the Danish noble-family Gjedde.
But I've later found out, on the internet, that they weren't noble after all, so this was a lie, I think I have to say.
And, in her family, was eg. her grandfather, her mothers father, Anders Gjedde Nyholm, who was Chief of the Generalkommando, that's the general with control on all of Denmarks war-forces, in the 1920's.
And her grand-uncle, was Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, who was a judge, for the British imperial courts, in Cairo, and then later a judge in the International Court, in Hague, in the 1920's.
I wonder why they would lie about the noble backgroud.
Anders Gjedde Nyholm, only wrote A. Nyholm, I've seen, as a signature, on official portrait-photographs in the Danish military-archives.
And their grandfather, was a farmers son, I've read on Thisted Museum's, in Denmark's, website.
So they weren't noble, but they maybe used the Gjedde-name to get prestige, because of the famous Admiral and colonisator of Tharambangdi, in India, for Denmark-Norway, Ove Gjedde, was famous, and maybe they pretended to be from the same family?
I've tried to serch the British National Archives online, about this, but I got no result, so I didn't know how to try to find out about this, other than contacting a good university.
I was wondering why the British Imperial Courts in Cairo, would let a Dane, (my grandmothers grand-uncle), Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, be a judge, in the British Empire?
Isn't this a bit strange, weren't this positions normally given to people from the British Empire?
I hope you have the chance to answer about this, or that you know of someone who might know about this!
I hope it's alright to ask about this, and I apologise, if it isn't.
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
