Sunday, June 18, 2017

An Interesting Find, After a Chance Comment

I asked one of the Missionaries at the LDS Family History Library where I might find an emigration date. When he learned they were LDS converts, he said, "Well! Look at the Branch records!"
As I am not a member of the church, it had not dawned that since I was looking at Lutheran records I might very well look at LDS records! Thank you, Elder!
These records were cards on microfiche, and referred to filmed records as well:
          Inger Backman, baptism 17 Aug 1863, immigration 4 Aug 1880
          Samuel C. Backman,baptism 26 Jul 1961, immigration 24 Jun 1878
          Charlotta Backman, baptism 27 Apr 1864
          Axel Backman, baptism 25 Jan 1864
          Inger Backman Christensen, baptism 6 Aug 1871
          Johan Petter Backman, baptism 24 Feb 1862
          Anna Johanna Backman, baptism 24 Sep 1861, immigration 24 Jun 1878
          Anders S. Backman, baptism 13 Jul 1879, immigration 5 Aug 1880
          Gustave H. Backman, baptism 13 Jul 1874, immigration 1877
          George S. Backman, immigration 24 Jun 1878
          Anna W Backman, baptism 19 Jun 1878, immigration 24 Jun 1878
          Berta K. Backman, immigration 24 Jun 1878

There are names not in this list, some dates missing. But I have a new resource.

Inger Sofia Backman Christiansson does not have an emigration date, because, as I've now had varified, she remained in Sweden. At Lundby. The Branch records list a death date, 23 Jul 1897. This does not match other records I have read.

As I will not do an utflyttade article for Inger, let's look at what I have learned of her family now.

Again, I must thank the other Backman researchers for their kind sharing. Jacki Lynn Latin and Kristin Richins have added much to my understanding of this family. I lean heavily on ArkivDigital online.

Inger Sofia Backman left Grinneröd when Inger Dahlberg Bacakman did, it appears they were the last to leave for the city.

Inger met a widower, Abraham Kristiansson, whose wife had died in 1866 leaving husband and child, Carl Magnus. Inger and Abraham married in Lundby the 5th of June 1867.

Abraham Kristiansson was born in 1838 in Orust.

I find a record with a daughter Ida Josefina, and have no reason to doubt that, but have not yet confirmed it myself, through records. She was born 1867, in Lundby. The family moved where there was work for Abraham, but Lundby would be home mostly.

The family grew: Kristina Oktavia (1869), Sven Albert (1872), Johan Edmund (1875), Elin Konstantia (1880), Ann (1883), Emma Axelina (1886) and Edit (1890). All were born in Lundby or Carl Johan, both parishes in Göteborg. Carl, Ida, Elin, Anna and Emma would pass away in Sweden, where Inger Sofia is found in the Lundby Dödbok on September 5, 1918, followed by Abraham on the 28th of June, 1920.

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