The vault beneath the once-famous Haagensen Memorial, Laceby 2022.
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.
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.
With thanks to Laceby Parish Council and Laceby History Group. ———————————————————- 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.
