This group was created for people researching the surname Petersen-Peterson. There also are the two Scandanavian spellings Pedersen-Pederson.
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Started by Rebecca M Trujillo-Batty. Last reply by Kate Steere Jul 26, 2009. 6 Replies 0 Likes
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If you need help regarding Scandanavian patronyms like Petersen/Pedersen/Persson etc. perhaps we can help you?
Looking for Emma Peterson/Petersen
4 Aug 1868
father from Norway (or Sweden)
married Thomas McClellan LaPointe
lived in Northfield MN
mother of Andrew Thomas LaPointe
Hi All, I recently discovered that my paternal great grand mother was a Peterson. MARY PETERSON has been a real genealogical mystery. I know from the 1880 US Census that she and her parents were born in Sweden. From a SF CA newspaper death notice I know she died in San Francisco CA on March 7, 1884 at the young age of 33yrs 9 months. I suspect pregnancy, child birth complications or some kind of epidemic. Her estimated birth date is about June 1850. So she immigrated to the US sometime between her birth in 1850 and 1878 when she was first located in SF CA. Sometime in the 1870's, she married my great grand father and became Mary Peterson Haentschel . She had a son, my grandfather born on Feb 17, 1878 in SF. Because of the San Francisco earthquake and fire very few records regarding marriage, birth, death exist. I do know where she was first buried in SF and that she was later moved to Colma when they closed and moved most of the SF cemeteries. I have no idea when, where or how she arrived in the US. I suspect maybe New York. I wonder if she may have come to the US as a child with other family members? I have no idea of names of parents or possible siblings. But maybe there could be a link to someone else in this group? .
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