Crested china; Haagensen Memorial, Laceby c1920s.
From the Historic England Official List entry; “Due to the high regard with which the family were held and the unusual nature of the statue, the Haagensen Monument attracted a steady flow of visitors and during the first half of the C20, sufficient numbers arrived by charabanc to support the establishment of the Laceby Tearooms, and the sale of postcards and glazed Goss pottery replicas.”
The design of the pottery replicas proved popular and they were also sold as souvenirs with crests other than Laceby’s e.g. Cleethorpes and Wakefield.
The larger replica on the right was made by ‘Waterfall Heraldic China’ (F.C.C.H. copyright). It has a Laceby crest on the front. On the back it says, “IN MEMORY OF CONSUL PETER HENRIK HAAGENSEN BORN AT MOSS, NORWAY, 3RD AUGUST 1837, AND OF HIS BELOVED WIFE, JANNA, BORN AT VINGER, NORWAY, 7TH SEPTEMBER 1845 DIED AT GRIMSBY 11TH DECEMBER 1897. ALSO OF THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, HENRY, CLARA, FREDERICK & MAUD. TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE HOPE OF RESSURECTION AND RECOGNITION IN ETERNITY”.
The original script of the memorial epitaph at Laceby has been altered at some point in time, as old postcards and this replica show that it originally included the names of the four children Henry, Clara, Frederick and Maud, which have been removed and the place of Peter’s death (Bournemouth) has been added. Only Peter and Janna are buried here.
The smaller replica on the left has no maker’s mark. It has the ‘3 Owls’ Cleethorpes crest on the front. On the left side it says, “IN MEMORY OF CONSUL PETER HENRIK HAAGENSEN BORN AT MOSS, NORWAY, 3RD AUGUST 1837.” On the back it says, “AND OF HIS BELOVED WIFE, JANNA, BORN AT VINGER, NORWAY, 7TH SEPTEMBER 1845 DIED AT GRIMSBY 11TH DECEMBER 1897. ALSO OF THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, HENRY, CLARA, FREDERICK & MAUD.” On the right side it says, “TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE HOPE OF RESSURECTION AND RECOGNITION IN ETERNITY.”
The Haagensen Memorial and Vault of 1897 is listed at Grade II. The vault was briefly opened up for visitors on 3rd September 2022. It’s normally opened once every couple of years. (See the photos on this website which were taken on the day.)
Peter Henrik Haagensen was born at Moss in Norway in 1837. In 1871, he became the Consul for Sweden and Norway. His wife, Janna Eleanora Andrea Haagensen (née Hagerun) was born at Vinger in Norway in 1845. The family lived at Norman Villas and then Spring Villa in Bargate, Grimsby.
Janna (Johanna) died in Grimsby on 11th December 1897. The subterranean family vault with a memorial statue above was built in Laceby Cemetery. (It is said that PHH’s request to construct the same in Grimsby was refused.)
Peter Henrik Haagensen of 36 Purbeck Road, Bournemouth died in a nearby nursing home on 12th May 1919. Peter and Janna are in the central pair of tombs opposite the marble stairway. ———————————————————- Notes (researched by Grimsby & Cleethorpes Museum):
Peter and Janna Haagensen had four children.
Henry Haagensen (1874-1943?) Married Lilian Cole in 1915. (Henry possibly died in 1943 in Greenwich, London.)
Clara Lina Andrea Haagensen (1876-1963) married Llewellyn Sidney Davies, a barrister in London, in Grimsby in 1906. Clara Lina Andrea Davies of The Grange, Herringswell, Mildenhall, Suffolk died on 29th October 1963. Llewellyn died in 1953.
(Hans) Frederick Haagensen (1877-1943) married Wilhelmina Grange Stephenson in Grimsby in 1899. ‘Elma’ came from well-known Grimsby families. They later divorced. Frederick Hans (born Hans Frederick) Haagensen travelled extensively and eventually became a painter-etcher/artist and lived on the Essex coast with his second wife, Audrey. He died in Bradwell-on-Sea (Bradwell-juxta-Mare) in 1943. Audrey Margherita A. Haagensen died in 1994, over 50 years after the death of her husband. (‘Trusses Cottage’, where the couple lived, is now a Grade II Listed Building.) Audrey once organised an exhibition of Frederick’s paintings in Grimsby as well as in other places.
(Margit) Maud(e) Haagensen (1881-1970) married John Sutcliffe Pyman, shipbroker, in Grimsby in 1902. The couple visited the USA in 1924, Kingston, Jamaica in 1932 and 1952 and various places in Africa in 1952 and 1954. Maud Margit Pyman of Flat 9, Falmouth House, Hyde Park Place, London died on 13th November 1970. John Sutcliffe Pyman of ‘Kelso’, 85 Gregories Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire died on 29th July 1954.
