Niels Christian, Anton & Morten

Morud 1929

Morten Meilgaard says:
Some family history. He was Niels Christian Jacobsen as a bricklayer in Jutland, working at the "castle" Meilgaard.
The owners were not called Meilgaard, they were Juel or Juel Brockdorff. When Niels Christian emigrated to Copenhagen, he found that several bricklayers there were named Jacobsen, so he went by the name of "Meilgaard" Jacobsen.
He applied for and received permission by "Kongebrev" for him and his descendants to change the family name to Meilgaard. Remember, Jorgen found that document, signed by King Christian the Ninth. Henceforth he called himself Niels Christian Meilgaard Jacobsen, and his oldest son became Anton Christian Jacobsen Meilgaard, with the surnames in reverse order. When I was born, they discarded Jacobsen altogether, and I was christened Morten Christian Meilgaard.