Cheri, if there are any other places that you can think of in Pope county where people may have gone I can do a search by location. Let me know it only takes a few minutes to check. You are very welcome.
Many of the early settlers went first to Ishpeming, MI and worked in the mines for a few years. I would really appreciate a look up for that as that would show my great-grandparents. Johan or Jan Jansson in 1868 and Anna Carlson or Carlsdotter in 1869.
The recent messages about finding ancestors on "Emihamm" was very interesting to me. I hadn't heard about that site. I took a look, but I don't know how to use it. My problem is that I am trying to learn more about my great grand mother. Her name was Mary Peterson. All I know is that she was born somewhere in Sweden about June 1850. I then know that she was married and gave birth to my grandfather in 1878 in San Francisco, CA. So sometime in the 28 year period between 1850 and 1878 she got to the US. She died young at the age of 33, I suspect maybe from childbirth/ pregnancy complications. The only clue from a SF newspaper death notice was "notify New York newspapers". So she might have had family there and maybe that's where she arrived? With a name like Mary Peterson, I might as well be looking for "Mary Smith". That and the lack of records caused by the SF earthquake and fire make this a tough hunt. Any ideas on how to attack the immigration question would be appreciated.
these might be your people.These records are from Emibas. From here you can get into the parish rolls and look at the Swedish church census. The page of the parish register is part of the reference.
Karlsdotter, Anna Katrina Inhysedotter (ogift kvinna)
f. 20/3 1849 i Ljusnarsberg, Örebro län (Västmanland)
Utvandrad 30/4 1870 från Högfors Hytta, Ljusnarsberg, Örebro län (Västmanland) till Nordamerika
Källa: Husförhörslängd, s. 592
Emibas emigrationsakt: Ljusnarsberg T 1870 015
Jansson, Johan Gruvarbetare (ogift man)
f. 2/9 1839 i Ljusnarsberg, Örebro län (Västmanland)
Utvandrad 9/5 1868 från Fäbobacken, Ljusnarsberg, Örebro län (Västmanland) till Nordamerika
I am hoping someone will be able to give me some advice on how to search for my great grandfather's family in Sweden.
John Alfred Peters (Sea Captain on son's marriage registration) (may have been born on Shetland Islands but no evidence of this yet.)
married Anna ______ (BC death registration on Family Search)
I suspect they married in Sweden.
Son: George Alfred Peter b 14 Mar 1883 in Sweden (death registration, his Canadian military record states Gottenburg, Sweden)
Mother (alive and well in 1917), 1 brother and either 4 sisters or sisters, father died at sea (military record)
Edward Peters - bother on military record - residing at Water St., Vancouver, B.C. when enlisted in 1915
I am hoping to find the marriage of John and Anna or the birth of George Alfred Peter or Edward in Sweden to hopefully get more information on the family.
The family story says that George was so upset when his father John died at sea that he left school and jumped on a ship. He contracted malaria in China before the war so I suspect he was a seaman for a while. Anna's family is believed to have owned ships transporting goods between China, North American and Europe.
Looking for relatives of Andrew Bengtson (may have been Henning Bengtson) from Bunkeflo, Malmohus Sweden. He had a brother in Illinois, he settled in Connecticut/immigrated 1882.
I have finally been able to scan into my computer a few documents from my Father, Per Hilding Persson, who was born in Filipstad, Varmlands, Sweden, in 1902, died 1977 in Indiana, USA. The documents include a single letter from my Grandfather Erik Johan Persson to my Father, dated May 1930, just two months before Grandfather died. Two more letters are from my Father's brother Carl (who remained in Filipstad) dated 1939 and 1952, respectively. My Dad also wrote some notes in a small notebook sometime back in the 1930's, which he kept & I've been able to input to my computer. All these things are in Swedish, which, unfortunately, I've never learn to read, speak or write. There are also a couple legal documents, probably related to my Grandfather's estate, which are also in Swedish. I really need to locate someone who could translate these things for me, but I am not able to pay them. Unfortunately, I lost my job and am not currently working outside the home as I take care of my 70-yr-old diabetic companion. I would appreciate any input where/how I might be able to get these documents translated. Thank you.
Below is just one page from a document my Father drafted in his handwriting. I won't put every page up here, obviously it takes up a lot of space. But perhaps there is someone who can help me transcribe this?
I got your letter (through our sister) the 21st of nov 1938. where I read that the property in Österås is apparently for sale, probably through our brother Adolf. There for we wonder, why our brother Carl couldn't buy(?) the apartment in Österås, for which we gave our consent last summer and warrant from all of us here in this country. All of us over here are eager to see an investigation of the matter, since we found our brother Carls's offer satisfying.
It was always Father's wish that one of his children would take over after him, his wish was that I would take over one of the properties, when I was home in the summer of 1929.
Nordic Genealogical Society of Southern California meets at the West LA Family History Library on March 10 at 2 pm. We help each other with research and learn about useful genealogy methods and things. Greater Los Angeles area. See our web site at nordicgenealogy.org
Hello again Sue. I don't know if you already have this information, but Karl Gustaf Persson b 1899 26/11 died 1/2 1976 in Filipstad according to Swedens' death book. His wife Rut (b. Bjurbäck) b 1899 d 1969 and their daughter Ruth b. 1926 11/11 d. 1951 22/11. I will keep my eye open for more info on your ancestors. /Elisabet
Dear Elisabet ~ You are so kind! Thank you for this new information on Karl, Rut, and daughter Ruth. If the little girl is, in fact, little Ruth (seems reasonable), she was a beautiful child. It is tragic she had such a short life (died at age 25). Do the death records specify her cause of death?
I hope you will excuse my delay in thanking you for your help. My computer has been out of commission since the beginning of March & only recently got it fixed. Finally back online today & saw your comments here. By the way, on Thursday, 3/22, I receved a snail mail letter from a woman who lives near Stockholm who does genealogy and says we are related! Her great-grandfather was my grandfather's brother! What a wonderful surprise it was to get her letter!
It's been quite some time since I have visited the site. Due to health reasons. I am scrolling through the posts reading. However, thought I would post that I am researching Hedquist / Headquist / Hedqvist / Hedkvist . My grandfather came from Sweden in the early 1900's, from a fairly large family. If anyone else is seeing any link to those names I would love to talk with you. From what I am told the name was uncommon and that even today, it still is.
HI i'm a new member also new to doing this on computer! My Grand dad was Franklin J. Carlton of Gottenburg Sweden. 03 May 1896 Parents, Gustav and Margaret. Imm. 1882 or 1890. Lived in Massachusetts,
I am looking for information on my great-grandparents, who are from Kalmar. His name was Gustav Adolf Holquist (Hultqvist) (b. 1863), and emigrated to the USA in the 1880s. He also had a brother, Frank F. Nelson, so his original last name may have been Nelson; there also may have been another brother, Charles. My great-grandfather settled in Omaha, NE, while Frank and Charles lived in Bay City, MI. My great-grandmother's name was Karin Persson. Is there a way for me to access any parish records from Högsby to look them up? Frank had listed his father's name as Holgrest Nelson.
Kristen, Swedish vital records were kept by each parish of the Swedish (state) church. Almost all of these "church books" have been filmed/scanned and images of the pages are available via the internet. Most of the access services are by subscription (in other words, not free). FamilySearch, SVAR, Ancestry/GenLine and ArkivDigital. FamilySearch is free but does not yet seem to be comprehensive. Most larger FamilySearch Family History Centers will have a library subscription which you can use in the center only. Their contract currently is with ArkivDigital. Wonderful images: direct digital color scans!
No indexed searches by name available yet, but they are coming...
Kristin, I moved some additional comments about your post to the H-name Discussion Forum (see the area just above the gray line "comment Wall" above. While the wall is not very busy, the H-name forum may be the first place someone may search for Holquist/Hultquist in the future (say a year or two).
I would not yet. Maybe, if you later show that Nelson was really their name.
I was helping a searcher with a Danish letter written about 1906 from a father to a 5-year-old child after a divorce and emigration to USA. The writer had a more unusual Danish surname, so on a remote chance, I did a Google search. The first hit was from a 2009 Danish genealogy forum posting with someone looking for the writer! This does not happen every day but it made a connection between two (related) researchers an ocean apart.
In Sweden for your family, I would expect to see Nilsson. The father's first name would likely then be Nils. Also, I may have opportunity to look at ArkivDigital tomorrow to see what I can see. Do you have a Family History Center near you?
To find a family history center location, visit familysearch.org. On the home page, there are tabs across the top. Click on FamilySearch Centers and enter some geographic data like a zipcode (assuming you are in the USA). The system will then search for 3 or 4 nearest you.
You should check the center hours and maybe call. Small centers tend to have limited staff and hence limited hours. These centers are operated by the Mormon/Latter-day Saint church and are open to anyone for no charge. The number of computers might be just a few. Our center here in Los Angeles is large with 75 computers, a good sized library, etc.
And while you are on the home page, you should also take a look at the first tab "Learn." It will bring up another menu. The left-most item links to the family history research wiki. This is a very useful tool for looking up all sorts of stuff. Since you are doing Swedish research, type in SWEDEN. Reading this main page should be your beginning reading assignment. You will see lots of other interesting an useful links from here. Think of the posibilities... and, this wiki is available 24/7. Try typing in Högsby parish and see...
Kristen: I went through Högsby Parish Records for 1863 and 1864 and checked for births of your ancestor under both the Hultquist name and the Nelsson name and there were no matches. Could he have been born elsewhere or a different year? All of Högsby's Parish Records are available at Ancestry.com and I read through them all. Parents from Sweden and have no trouble reading old Swedish but no luck with your family.....sorry,.
Larry, thank you so much for looking. I had been told that they were from Kalmar, and found a very old photo of the Högsby church with other photos that they had, so I thought that meant they were from there. It is possible that they are under another name, but right now, I am stymied. I suppose Nelson could have been Nilsson? I will look for more records around here. I have not been able to find any immigration records from them, either, so I don't have that. In his Bible that he received for confirmation, it says, "Klockaregård". Does that mean anything? Again, thanks!
I should correct that. It reads, "Gustaf Adolf Hultqvist: Myresjö Klockaregård, född den 8 Mars 1863.
På Confirmationsdagen: Myresjö d. 13 April 1879."
So, I guess that means that the name was Hultqvist in Sweden, and that his brother Frank changed his name to Nelson, unless Frank is a half brother. Is Myresjö near Högsby? Could their father's name be Nils Hultqvist?
I guess it also means that I should have gone back and checked the Bible first.
Kristen: Okay, here goes: Nils August Hultquist, born May 14, 1832 in Myresjö parish, his wife Mathilda Johanna Petersdötter born February 14, 1826. Didn't find the marriage date last night but they had the following children: Annetta Gustafva Hultquist born January 13, 1853, Sven Johan Hultquist born Dec. 26, 1854, Mathilda Adolphina born February 23, 1856, Carl August born July 2, 1859, Frank Fredrik born January 6, 1861, Gustaf Adolph born March 8, 1863 and Amanda Mathilda born January 7, 1865. All children born in Myresjö parish. The actual birth of Gustaf Adolph reads that the farmer Nils August Hultquist and the mother Mathilda Johanna Petersdötter had a male child born on March 8, 1863 and christened in church on March 12, 1863. Witnesses were: Anders Carlsson and his wife Sara Louisa Johannesdötter...all of Torp in Myresjö parish. "Klockaregården Rusthåll".is the farm they are on when Gustaf Adolph is confirmed but it is still within the same parish. Could have found more I guess but it was pretty late here when I began the research.
Larry, thank you so much! It is just wonderful to have this information,to be able to put together that part of my family. Any idea what the name, "Hultquist" means?
Next question: Is there any possibility that Karin Persson (maybe Persdotter?)(my great-grandmother) was the one from Högsby? At this point, all I know of her origin is her birth date (June 10, 1866). She and my great-grandfather married in Omaha, NE, so I don't know whether or not they were acquainted in Sweden.
Hultquist is from two words. A "hult" is a grove as in a grove of trees. Quist comes from an archaic Swedish Kvist which is a twig or branch. So, I guess you could say it means a grove of twigs or branches.
Kristen, For your records Högsby parish births searched for the birthdate you posted would have been on p245 on ArkivDigital. Högsby CI:6 (1861-1883) Image 128/page 245. Very readable record book.
Myresjö (Jönköping county) is a good 60 km from Högsby as the crow flys. Myresjö lies south west of Vetlanda maybe 10km and about 100km inland (west) from Oskarshamn on the Baltic coast near the island of Öland. My trusty KAK Atlas. In the 1860s this was a major distance with no railroads... there must be another story here.
Cheri Sletten
Thank you Janet!
I recognize most of the names on this list, and upon further checking I am sure I will know who most, if not all, of them are.
Cheri
May 31, 2011
Janet Johnson
Cheri, if there are any other places that you can think of in Pope county where people may have gone I can do a search by location. Let me know it only takes a few minutes to check. You are very welcome.
Jun 1, 2011
Cheri Sletten
Janet,
Many of the early settlers went first to Ishpeming, MI and worked in the mines for a few years. I would really appreciate a look up for that as that would show my great-grandparents. Johan or Jan Jansson in 1868 and Anna Carlson or Carlsdotter in 1869.
Thank you,
Cheri
Jun 2, 2011
Janet Johnson
By chance have you got Johan/Jan Jansson's birthdate and Anna Carlsdotter's birthdate? and is 1868 and 1869 the arrival date or their birth year?
Jun 2, 2011
Frederick george henchell
Jun 2, 2011
Cheri Sletten
Janet,
Johan (Jan) was born 2 Sep 1839 and emigrated in 1868.
Anna was born 20 Mar 1849 and emigrated in 1869.
They are both in the 1870 census in Ishpeming. Johan took the name John J. Berg, which the census taker wrote as Berry in 1870.
Cheri
Jun 2, 2011
Janet Johnson
Frederick,
Emmihamm is a database not a website, I search for your Mary Peterson, but so far no luck. Sorry
Jun 2, 2011
Janet Johnson
Cheri
these might be your people.These records are from Emibas. From here you can get into the parish rolls and look at the Swedish church census. The page of the parish register is part of the reference.
Karlsdotter, Anna Katrina
Inhysedotter (ogift kvinna)
f. 20/3 1849 i Ljusnarsberg, Örebro län (Västmanland)
Utvandrad 30/4 1870
från Högfors Hytta, Ljusnarsberg, Örebro län (Västmanland)
till Nordamerika
Källa: Husförhörslängd, s. 592
Emibas emigrationsakt: Ljusnarsberg T 1870 015
Jansson, Johan
Gruvarbetare (ogift man)
f. 2/9 1839 i Ljusnarsberg, Örebro län (Västmanland)
Utvandrad 9/5 1868
från Fäbobacken, Ljusnarsberg, Örebro län (Västmanland)
till Nordamerika
Källa: Husförhörslängd, s. 538
Emibas emigrationsakt: Ljusnarsberg T 1868 063
Jun 2, 2011
Colleen Bukach
I am hoping someone will be able to give me some advice on how to search for my great grandfather's family in Sweden.
John Alfred Peters (Sea Captain on son's marriage registration) (may have been born on Shetland Islands but no evidence of this yet.)
married Anna ______ (BC death registration on Family Search)
I suspect they married in Sweden.
Son: George Alfred Peter b 14 Mar 1883 in Sweden (death registration, his Canadian military record states Gottenburg, Sweden)
Mother (alive and well in 1917), 1 brother and either 4 sisters or sisters, father died at sea (military record)
Edward Peters - bother on military record - residing at Water St., Vancouver, B.C. when enlisted in 1915
I am hoping to find the marriage of John and Anna or the birth of George Alfred Peter or Edward in Sweden to hopefully get more information on the family.
The family story says that George was so upset when his father John died at sea that he left school and jumped on a ship. He contracted malaria in China before the war so I suspect he was a seaman for a while. Anna's family is believed to have owned ships transporting goods between China, North American and Europe.
Any thoughts would be great appreciated.
Many thanks
Best wishes
Colleen
Jul 11, 2011
Lynne Benson Polansky
Aug 8, 2011
Janet Johnson
Could either of these be your Anders Bengtsson
Bengtsson, Anders
Skräddare (ogift man)
f. 27/12 1855 i Södervidinge, Malmöhus län (Skåne)
Utvandrad 24/3 1882
Bengtsson, Anders
Järnvägsarbetare (ogift man)
f. 1855
Utvandrad 9/5 1882
från Östra Förstaden 38, Malmö Karoli, Malmöhus län (Skåne)
till Amerika
Källa: Husförhörslängd, s. 147
Emibas emigrationsakt: Malmö Karoli M 1882 291
från Södervidinge 1, Södervidinge, Malmöhus län (Skåne)
till Köbenhavn amt, Danmark
Källa: Husförhörslängd, s. 16
Emibas emigrationsakt: Södervidinge M 1882 001
Aug 8, 2011
Lynne Benson Polansky
Aug 8, 2011
Sue Pearson Greichunos
Aug 16, 2011
Sue Pearson Greichunos
Aug 17, 2011
Sue Pearson Greichunos
Using Google Translate (or any online translation help) is tedious, time-consuming, and inexact. But every little bit helps, I guess.
Still would like to find someone who could help translate these documents.
Aug 17, 2011
Cheryl Palmer
Thank you Jean! I didn't know about the Swedish keyboard! Shows you how observant I am! I use Goolge translate all the time! Very helpful!
Aug 19, 2011
Annelie Jonsson
This week 29th Aug - 5th Sept it's free to search in Ancestry's immigrant- & emigrant records.
http://www.ancestry.com/immigration?o_iid=43348&o_lid=43348&...
/Annelie
Aug 29, 2011
Sue Pearson Greichunos
Feb 3, 2012
Sue Pearson Greichunos
Below is just one page from a document my Father drafted in his handwriting. I won't put every page up here, obviously it takes up a lot of space. But perhaps there is someone who can help me transcribe this?
Feb 3, 2012
Elisabet Lindberg
Hello Sue! The translation is (roughly):
I got your letter (through our sister) the 21st of nov 1938. where I read that the property in Österås is apparently for sale,
probably through our brother Adolf. There for we wonder, why our brother Carl couldn't buy(?) the apartment in Österås, for which we gave our consent last summer and warrant from all of us here in this country.
All of us over here are eager to see an investigation of the matter, since we found our brother Carls's offer satisfying.
It was always Father's wish that one of his children would take over after him, his wish was that I would take over one of the properties, when I was home in the summer of 1929.
Feb 4, 2012
Sue Pearson Greichunos
Oh Wow! Elisabet, this sends chills through me to read my Father's words this way. Thank you!
p.s. ~ There are several more small little handwritten pages like this. Dare I upload them here???
Feb 4, 2012
Karin Naylor
This is wonderful, Elisabet, that you can do this for Sue.
Feb 4, 2012
Slægtens Historie
http://video.visitdenmark.com/video/3495646/denmark-on-demand-american
Feel free to contact us at www.slaegtenshistorie.dk
Feb 5, 2012
Lynn Anderson
Nordic Genealogical Society of Southern California meets at the West LA Family History Library on March 10 at 2 pm. We help each other with research and learn about useful genealogy methods and things. Greater Los Angeles area. See our web site at nordicgenealogy.org
Mar 8, 2012
Elisabet Lindberg
Hello again Sue. I don't know if you already have this information, but Karl Gustaf Persson b 1899 26/11 died 1/2 1976 in Filipstad according to Swedens' death book. His wife Rut (b. Bjurbäck) b 1899 d 1969 and their daughter Ruth b. 1926 11/11 d. 1951 22/11. I will keep my eye open for more info on your ancestors. /Elisabet
Mar 8, 2012
Elisabet Lindberg
Oh and by the way, the little girl on the picture may very well be little Ruth.
Mar 8, 2012
Sue Pearson Greichunos
Dear Elisabet ~ You are so kind! Thank you for this new information on Karl, Rut, and daughter Ruth. If the little girl is, in fact, little Ruth (seems reasonable), she was a beautiful child. It is tragic she had such a short life (died at age 25). Do the death records specify her cause of death?
I hope you will excuse my delay in thanking you for your help. My computer has been out of commission since the beginning of March & only recently got it fixed. Finally back online today & saw your comments here. By the way, on Thursday, 3/22, I receved a snail mail letter from a woman who lives near Stockholm who does genealogy and says we are related! Her great-grandfather was my grandfather's brother! What a wonderful surprise it was to get her letter!
Mar 24, 2012
Lori Butler
It's been quite some time since I have visited the site. Due to health reasons. I am scrolling through the posts reading. However, thought I would post that I am researching Hedquist / Headquist / Hedqvist / Hedkvist . My grandfather came from Sweden in the early 1900's, from a fairly large family. If anyone else is seeing any link to those names I would love to talk with you. From what I am told the name was uncommon and that even today, it still is.
Mar 27, 2012
Lynn Anderson
Hi Lori - See the post in the Discussion for "H-Swedish Patronymic or Common Name" (above)
Mar 28, 2012
Joan ( Murphy) (Balue) Fullmore
HI i'm a new member also new to doing this on computer! My Grand dad was Franklin J. Carlton of Gottenburg Sweden. 03 May 1896 Parents, Gustav and Margaret. Imm. 1882 or 1890. Lived in Massachusetts,
Jul 22, 2012
Sue Pearson Greichunos
Welcome, Joan Fullmore. What's your main question?
Jul 23, 2012
Kristen Holquist Waite
I am looking for information on my great-grandparents, who are from Kalmar. His name was Gustav Adolf Holquist (Hultqvist) (b. 1863), and emigrated to the USA in the 1880s. He also had a brother, Frank F. Nelson, so his original last name may have been Nelson; there also may have been another brother, Charles. My great-grandfather settled in Omaha, NE, while Frank and Charles lived in Bay City, MI. My great-grandmother's name was Karin Persson. Is there a way for me to access any parish records from Högsby to look them up? Frank had listed his father's name as Holgrest Nelson.
Jul 23, 2012
Lynn Anderson
Kristen, Swedish vital records were kept by each parish of the Swedish (state) church. Almost all of these "church books" have been filmed/scanned and images of the pages are available via the internet. Most of the access services are by subscription (in other words, not free). FamilySearch, SVAR, Ancestry/GenLine and ArkivDigital. FamilySearch is free but does not yet seem to be comprehensive. Most larger FamilySearch Family History Centers will have a library subscription which you can use in the center only. Their contract currently is with ArkivDigital. Wonderful images: direct digital color scans!
No indexed searches by name available yet, but they are coming...
Jul 23, 2012
Lynn Anderson
Kristin, I moved some additional comments about your post to the H-name Discussion Forum (see the area just above the gray line "comment Wall" above. While the wall is not very busy, the H-name forum may be the first place someone may search for Holquist/Hultquist in the future (say a year or two).
Jul 23, 2012
Kristen Holquist Waite
Thank you, Lynn! Should I also post to the N-name Discussion Forum, or is Nelson too common a name?
Jul 23, 2012
Lynn Anderson
I would not yet. Maybe, if you later show that Nelson was really their name.
I was helping a searcher with a Danish letter written about 1906 from a father to a 5-year-old child after a divorce and emigration to USA. The writer had a more unusual Danish surname, so on a remote chance, I did a Google search. The first hit was from a 2009 Danish genealogy forum posting with someone looking for the writer! This does not happen every day but it made a connection between two (related) researchers an ocean apart.
In Sweden for your family, I would expect to see Nilsson. The father's first name would likely then be Nils. Also, I may have opportunity to look at ArkivDigital tomorrow to see what I can see. Do you have a Family History Center near you?
Jul 23, 2012
Kristen Holquist Waite
I don't know if there is a Family History Center near me. Not that I know of. I will google it and find out.
On his marriage record, Frank Nelson listed his father as Holgret Nelson, and his mother as Matilda Swanson. Does that make any sense?
Jul 23, 2012
Lynn Anderson
To find a family history center location, visit familysearch.org. On the home page, there are tabs across the top. Click on FamilySearch Centers and enter some geographic data like a zipcode (assuming you are in the USA). The system will then search for 3 or 4 nearest you.
You should check the center hours and maybe call. Small centers tend to have limited staff and hence limited hours. These centers are operated by the Mormon/Latter-day Saint church and are open to anyone for no charge. The number of computers might be just a few. Our center here in Los Angeles is large with 75 computers, a good sized library, etc.
And while you are on the home page, you should also take a look at the first tab "Learn." It will bring up another menu. The left-most item links to the family history research wiki. This is a very useful tool for looking up all sorts of stuff. Since you are doing Swedish research, type in SWEDEN. Reading this main page should be your beginning reading assignment. You will see lots of other interesting an useful links from here. Think of the posibilities... and, this wiki is available 24/7. Try typing in Högsby parish and see...
Jul 23, 2012
Larry Bowles
Kristen: I went through Högsby Parish Records for 1863 and 1864 and checked for births of your ancestor under both the Hultquist name and the Nelsson name and there were no matches. Could he have been born elsewhere or a different year? All of Högsby's Parish Records are available at Ancestry.com and I read through them all. Parents from Sweden and have no trouble reading old Swedish but no luck with your family.....sorry,.
Jul 23, 2012
Kristen Holquist Waite
Larry, thank you so much for looking. I had been told that they were from Kalmar, and found a very old photo of the Högsby church with other photos that they had, so I thought that meant they were from there. It is possible that they are under another name, but right now, I am stymied. I suppose Nelson could have been Nilsson? I will look for more records around here. I have not been able to find any immigration records from them, either, so I don't have that. In his Bible that he received for confirmation, it says, "Klockaregård". Does that mean anything? Again, thanks!
Jul 23, 2012
Kristen Holquist Waite
I should correct that. It reads, "Gustaf Adolf Hultqvist: Myresjö Klockaregård, född den 8 Mars 1863.
På Confirmationsdagen: Myresjö d. 13 April 1879."
So, I guess that means that the name was Hultqvist in Sweden, and that his brother Frank changed his name to Nelson, unless Frank is a half brother. Is Myresjö near Högsby? Could their father's name be Nils Hultqvist?
I guess it also means that I should have gone back and checked the Bible first.
Jul 23, 2012
Lynn Anderson
There is a Myresjö parish in Jönköping county and the wiki lists a "Klockaregården Rusthåll".
The farm name means bell ringer farm... The Klockare provided assistance to the parish priest... and perhaps even rings the bell
Jul 23, 2012
Lynn Anderson
I should have mentioned Jönköping is the next county over.
Jul 23, 2012
Larry Bowles
Kristen: Okay, here goes: Nils August Hultquist, born May 14, 1832 in Myresjö parish, his wife Mathilda Johanna Petersdötter born February 14, 1826. Didn't find the marriage date last night but they had the following children: Annetta Gustafva Hultquist born January 13, 1853, Sven Johan Hultquist born Dec. 26, 1854, Mathilda Adolphina born February 23, 1856, Carl August born July 2, 1859, Frank Fredrik born January 6, 1861, Gustaf Adolph born March 8, 1863 and Amanda Mathilda born January 7, 1865. All children born in Myresjö parish. The actual birth of Gustaf Adolph reads that the farmer Nils August Hultquist and the mother Mathilda Johanna Petersdötter had a male child born on March 8, 1863 and christened in church on March 12, 1863. Witnesses were: Anders Carlsson and his wife Sara Louisa Johannesdötter...all of Torp in Myresjö parish. "Klockaregården Rusthåll".is the farm they are on when Gustaf Adolph is confirmed but it is still within the same parish. Could have found more I guess but it was pretty late here when I began the research.
Jul 24, 2012
Kristen Holquist Waite
Larry, thank you so much! It is just wonderful to have this information,to be able to put together that part of my family. Any idea what the name, "Hultquist" means?
Jul 24, 2012
Kristen Holquist Waite
Next question: Is there any possibility that Karin Persson (maybe Persdotter?)(my great-grandmother) was the one from Högsby? At this point, all I know of her origin is her birth date (June 10, 1866). She and my great-grandfather married in Omaha, NE, so I don't know whether or not they were acquainted in Sweden.
Jul 24, 2012
Larry Bowles
Hultquist is from two words. A "hult" is a grove as in a grove of trees. Quist comes from an archaic Swedish Kvist which is a twig or branch. So, I guess you could say it means a grove of twigs or branches.
Jul 24, 2012
Lynn Anderson
Searching Högsby parish births I did not see any Karin in May June or July 1866. Just in case, I also checked October 6 page and no Karin.
Jul 24, 2012
Lynn Anderson
Kristen, For your records Högsby parish births searched for the birthdate you posted would have been on p245 on ArkivDigital. Högsby CI:6 (1861-1883) Image 128/page 245. Very readable record book.
Jul 24, 2012
Lynn Anderson
Myresjö (Jönköping county) is a good 60 km from Högsby as the crow flys. Myresjö lies south west of Vetlanda maybe 10km and about 100km inland (west) from Oskarshamn on the Baltic coast near the island of Öland. My trusty KAK Atlas. In the 1860s this was a major distance with no railroads... there must be another story here.
Jul 24, 2012