I have given some dates for Samuel's children who came from Sweden to the United States. Inger Sofia Backman and Abraham Kristiansson also had children who immigrated. These children assumed the name Chistensson in their American records, sometimes with diverse spellings. Because none of their children passed the name down I will will use this spelling.
I have reported Samuel's children as they immigrated, let me add a little for these children of Inger Sofia's.
Kristina Octavia, who would marry Axel Alfred Carlson, is given a pleasant article in www.familysearch.org by Crystal Noel Taylor (dated January 2014). This article gave me some information I had not recalled seeing previously, and for which I am grateful to gain.
In ArkivDigital [Lundby BI:4 (1885-1894) Image 390/page 34] we find the Utfyttnings-Längd record #134 on August 21, 1888, stating Kristiansson, Kristina Oktavia, local girl, going to N. Amerika. She would be 19 that year. In the same record Johan Edmund is also reported to be leaving that parish.
Sven Albert, I believe I have found enroute Copenhaven to Hull as Christensen, Sven, foster child, aged 10. Dates and age fit with my record, but I cannot determine with whom he is traveling as a foster child. Did he come with returning missionaries as William did? Also, I cannot find his passage from Liverpool to New York (the route I presume was used) and as yet I cannot determine where he lived when he arrived. He was 10, he must have stayed with someone. He was in the Sixteenth Ward in Salt Lake City when he died in 1885.
Johan Albert died, aged 23, from an injury while doing railroad work in northern Utah, and was buried in Brigham City.
Edit, left Sweden at age 19, as reported in the Lundby records [ArkivDigital, Lundby BII:2 (1906-1927) Image 56/page 102] on September 24, 1909. She married Carl Johansson before passing away at the State Hospital in Provo.
With these we have our American family. We do not break our ties with Sweden, as we will see, but will soon be a family "born in the USA".
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Leaving Sweden, utflyttade, Six: Axel Emanuel
Referring again to www.familysearch.org, in Axel's profile, a submission by Nickolas Burt, is the history provided to John Burt as [part of a genealogy program in Sweden. This is the record which gave us the history going back to Anders Larsson, tax collector and mayor of Uddevalla.
This record reports that Axel went to work in Hisingen at Rambergs Bruk.
I have been unable to exactly identify this place; however, Hising is identified as the country's third largest island, and the original site of what became Göteborg. An internet search for Rambergs Bruk gave me a few axe making foundries- which is not unreasonable, but again, I cannot confirm this.
This article goes on to say that due to the persecution LDS members were subjected to that Axel went to sea in 1862, never returning to Sweden.
Axel - Charlie - settled in New Orleans, later migrating to Utah.
This record reports that Axel went to work in Hisingen at Rambergs Bruk.
I have been unable to exactly identify this place; however, Hising is identified as the country's third largest island, and the original site of what became Göteborg. An internet search for Rambergs Bruk gave me a few axe making foundries- which is not unreasonable, but again, I cannot confirm this.
This article goes on to say that due to the persecution LDS members were subjected to that Axel went to sea in 1862, never returning to Sweden.
Axel - Charlie - settled in New Orleans, later migrating to Utah.
Utflyttade, part 5: John Peter
Except that we know John Peter Backman came to the United states with his nephew Gustave Hilmer Backman, I find no record of his departure. Peter had gone to sea, working the great waters between Sweden and Great Britain, possibly at greater distances, as well. Gustave's memoir states that Peter intended to leave the seafaring life in Liverpool in 1877, that the two of them stayed with Peter's sister Charlotta in that town.
They sailed aboard the Ship Wyoming, with a large company of Saints, the group presided over by Elder Udall, a missionary returning to the States. The journey would last ten days and was uneventful, generally. Gustave reported seasickness in himself, and he was not alone, but they group cleared the medical checks on arriving in New York and were on the westward train shortly.
We have this from Jackilynn Latin, in her biography of Peter in the www.familysearch.org profile:
At the time of John Peter’s departure for America he was engaged to a girl named Augusta Stein of Sweden. Her family, all converts to the church, moved to Utah prior to 1877. Once John Peter’s bags were unpacked, he posted a letter to Augusta, requesting that they meet and set a date for their marriage. Several days later, Augusta’s father came to him and unfolded the sordid tale of Augusta’s suicide due to involvement with another man.
When the sad swain’s anguish had abated somewhat, he remembered another comely miss named Matilda whom he knew in Sweden.
They sailed aboard the Ship Wyoming, with a large company of Saints, the group presided over by Elder Udall, a missionary returning to the States. The journey would last ten days and was uneventful, generally. Gustave reported seasickness in himself, and he was not alone, but they group cleared the medical checks on arriving in New York and were on the westward train shortly.
We have this from Jackilynn Latin, in her biography of Peter in the www.familysearch.org profile:
At the time of John Peter’s departure for America he was engaged to a girl named Augusta Stein of Sweden. Her family, all converts to the church, moved to Utah prior to 1877. Once John Peter’s bags were unpacked, he posted a letter to Augusta, requesting that they meet and set a date for their marriage. Several days later, Augusta’s father came to him and unfolded the sordid tale of Augusta’s suicide due to involvement with another man.
When the sad swain’s anguish had abated somewhat, he remembered another comely miss named Matilda whom he knew in Sweden.
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