Charlotta Christina Backman was born 2 October 1839 in Ljung parish in Göteborg och Bohus län, Sweden, the eldest daughter of Sven and Inger Backman.
Several families stopped at the home in Liverpool, England, of Charlotta and her husband Johan Ferdinand Abrahamsson, who, here in the United States was known as John F Anderson. I have not found the marriage record, however, family histories say 1857, in Grinneröd. I do find Charlotta moving to Göteborg as early as 1860, and as yet have not found John there.
John was the son of Abraham Fredriksson and Johanna Jänsdotter, born in Langelanda, Sweden, on September 13, 1843.
John was a mariner, like Charlotta's brothers, and it may for this reason that they were in Liverpool. Certainly they provided a place to rest and renew family ties with their home there.
We do find them together on the ship, Wyoming, departing Liverpool the 19th of April 1879 to arrive in New York the 30th.
John had a younger brother, Martin, who also had gone to sea and would travel to Idaho to visit John and Charlotta, with the outcome of meeting and shortly, marrying Charlotta's sister Lena.
While Charlotta and John did not raise children of their own, they were close to Lena's even -or because- of her early death in 1891.
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