Steen Andersen Bille
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The name of Steen Andersen Bille is closely associated with one extended family of Danish Naval Officers over four generations. Their relationships are as follows
  • Steen Andersen Bille (1624 – 1698)Colonel and Vice-Commandant of Copenhagen.

Sons
  • Captain Just Bille(1670) and
  • Admiral Michael Bille (1680)
Grandsons
  • Rear Admiral Daniel Ernst Bille (7/4/1711 – 25/2/1790)
  • Junior Lieutenant Steen Andersen Bille (27/03/1725 - 23/09/1748)Unmarried
  • Captain Mathias Bille (17/2/1736 – 17/3/1782)
Greatgrandsons (via Michael and Mathias) - the halfbrothers
  • Rear Admiral Michael Johan Petronius Bille
    Michael Bille
    Disambiguation: See Steen Andersen Bille for relationships to other naval officers in the familyMichael Bille was a Danish-Norwegian, and Prussian naval officer born 8 November 1769 in Stege on the Danish Island of Møn into a naval family which had produced and would produce Danish...

      (8/11/1769 – 27/3/1845)
  • Captain Søren Adolph Bille (4/6/1775 – 12/9/1819)


Grandsons of Captain Just Bille
  • Commander Just Bille (13/3/1744 - 17/01/1802) No issue.
  • Admiral Steen Andersen Bille (23/8/1751 – 15/4/1833) Actions: Action of 16 May 1797
    Action of 16 May 1797
    This battle took place on 16 May 1797 near Tripoli . The Danish squadron was victorious over a Tripolitan squadron that outnumbered them in terms of the number of vessels...

    , Battle of Copenhagen, Gunboat War
    Gunboat War
    The Gunboat War was the naval conflict between Denmark–Norway and the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The war's name is derived from the Danish tactic of employing small gunboats against the conventional Royal Navy...

    . Two sons below
  • Senior Lieutenant Ernst Wilhelm Bille[5] 9/9/1795 - 15/3/1821 Unmarried.
  • Vice Admiral Steen Andersen Bille
    Steen Bille
    Disambiguation: See Steen Andersen Bille for relationships to other naval officers in the family-Early Years:Influenced by his father’s roll in the defence of Copenhagen in 1807, and the visits of many leading naval figures to his parents’ house, he became a cadet in 1809 at the age of 12, seven...

    (5/12/1797 - 2/5/1883)

Sources

T. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard (1935) “Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den danske Søetat 1814-1932“ (Danish Naval Officers)

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