Re: Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?
Do you know which parishes? My family lived in Lidkoping, Norra Harene, Hovby, Berg and Vattlosa parishes at some point or another (the one I've been tracing in Vasta Gotland moved around a bunch).
Mine moved around a bit too. THis is from my Swedish cousin- translated from Swedish so a bit choppy.
We have also made contact with descendants of the grandmother's sister Maria Charlotta. She married soldier Klas Dahlqvist. They had 12 children. One of the children was Signe who is the mother of Jan Persson, currently living in Öland. Jan has helped us to display the image on the family reunion they had in the Sanctuary in 1956 and we have been able to give the tree a number of new faces.
We have visited Hovalida in Gingri where grandmother and father with some of the children lived and managed the farm during the years 1889-1894. From there the family moved to Little Råshult in Sanctuary where 1906 became neighbors with daughter Signe's family moved to the adjacent Great Råshult from the croft in Sandhult.
In the beautiful Ätradalen north of Ulricehamnsloppet lived our grandfather's grandmother's great-grandfather, Jonas Lejon, who soldier on Korsberga croft (see picture opposite) outside Timmele, between 1736-1741. Korsberga is today a beautiful year round residence. We have also visited his next croft Hässlet, east of Ulricehamnsloppet and Plate which is also located in Ätradalen. This fall, we will try to find out how Jonas lived his soldatliv but now we know that he, among many other patterned in Pomerania in 1758 and was a soldier in various positions from 1736 to 1780. Jonas's father was named Per Leo. He was also a soldier, and after these two are several descendants and relatives who were soldiers. The last of them was of course great grandfather, Gustaf End.
and a bit more- these are the railroad guys- 1905 the family moved Colson to the small town of Stanley outside Port Arthur where John was responsible for a group of railway workers and maintenance of a web member for the Canadian National Railway. John retired in 1931, on his 69 th birthday and then moved to Clara to Thunder Bay where he died in 1933. Clara passed away in 1942.
In Schreiber also lived his brother, Alfred, who then called himself Fred Carlson. He married Ida Petersson, we still do not know more about than that she was born in Sweden in 1861. They had their first child, Mary Carlson, Schreiber in 1889, but moved the following year to Minneapolis. There was born the daughter Jennie in 1891.
At the census of 1900, Fred renamed Frederick Carlsen and Ida called themselves Alfreda Carlsen, and they had then moved with the two girls to Springfield, Ohio. In 1910, Fred lived, Ida and Mary in Buffalo, NY, before 1914 moved back to Minneapolis again. Jennie stayed in Springfield where she married Ralph Dodd and lived all his life. They had no children.
Mary married in 1913 to Nels Swanson, who we have reason to believe was Nils Svensson from Gothenburg, born 1869. Mary and Nels had a daughter Alfreda, who had five daughters and son Alvin had a daughter, Peggi, today the editor of one of the largest websites on snowsports. The five girls are all married, have a family and live in different parts of America.
Both Fred and Nels worked for the Minneapolis Street Railway, which was a very extensive system of tram traffic to St. Paul, and ultimately to the pretty little town of Stillwater River at La Croix. Fred's wife Ida died in 1919 and there after Fred has lived with her daughter Mary and her family. He retired in 1930, 71 years old, and died 1938.
