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Comment by M Graham on April 14, 2013 at 4:26pm

Hello - I am searching for my great grandfather with a very common name and not much information.  I am hoping someone can help me.  His name was Charles A. Anderson.  He was a shoemaker.  He was born about August 1851 in Sweden.  His mother's name was Johanna Anderson.  On January 22, 1876 he married Clara Andersdotter in Burlington, Iowa, USA.  Clara was born on September 14, 1857. Stora Hester. Vastra Ryd (E).  She emigrated in 1870. I believe Charles emigrated about the same time.  I do not know if knowing about Clara will help fiind Charles.  In the 1870 United States Federal Census, I have found a family consisting of Johanna Anderson (55 years of age), Frank Anderson (23 years of age), and Charles Anderson (20 years of age) living in Burlington, Iowa, USA.  I do not know if this is the Charles I am looking for.  They were living with the Yanson family (Charles Yanson, Mary Yanson, and Eva Yanson).  After this census I can find no further information on the Yanson's.  I am wondering if they changed their name.  Anyway, back to Charles.  Any help you can give me will be appreciated.  I wish I had more information to provide.  Thank you so very much.

 

Comment by LEWIS W STALLMAN on February 22, 2013 at 1:50pm

Hi to all my "Swedish Ancestors"....My maternal grandfather, Franz Axel Goethe Ofeldt (Afeldt) immigrated from Norrkoping, Sweden with his parents & 3 brothers in the late 1800's and established a boat building yard in Brooklyn NY.  Found the graves of my GGrrandparents in the cemetary in Brooklyn, NY.

There is a lot of information regarding the OFELDT steam boiler/steam car on the internet...& many Ofeldt ancestors in Rockland County, New York.

Anyone have surnames of: Ofeldt, Afeldt, Soederback, Ahlqvist, Andersdotter?

lew_stallman@yahoo.com

 

Comment by Kristen Holquist Waite on August 30, 2012 at 7:34pm

Thank you for your help! What is a comminister? What did they do?

Comment by Elisabet Lindberg on August 30, 2012 at 1:14pm

I spoke to an old history teaching friend and his guess of translation was "the one chosen by vote to run the village/parish". Jonas seems to have been a comminister as well.

Comment by Elisabet Lindberg on August 30, 2012 at 11:38am

Hello again! The word appears to be "socknesHr." which could be short for "sockneherre". It's a very old term and I am not sure how to translate it properly. Looking it up!

BrittGitta's father is male teacher Jonas Hultqvist. I found the family in the house records of 1792-1808 p.71. By that time the father is gone/dead and Britta has a brother, Johannes, born 28 sep 1788. I've looked for Jonas H in the death records of 1788-1792 with no luck… but it's very hard to read those pages. I'll keep looking and see if I can find anything else. 

Comment by Kristen Holquist Waite on August 29, 2012 at 7:17pm

Britta's birth record is in Södra-Solberga. On ArkivDigital, it is image 114, which is page 215,in the birth records from 1690-1781.

The household examination roll is from Myresjö parish in Jönkoping. The farm name is Stora Måla Rote Ekornehult. On ArkivDigital, it is image 127, which is on page 119 in the records from 1826 - 1834. This is where Peter Johansson is listed as "sockneskr" -- or whatever it is.

Thank you!

Comment by Elisabet Lindberg on August 29, 2012 at 3:26pm

Hello Kristen! Which Solberga (parish) is it? I can try and look at "Socknesker" with my swedish eyes. A magister was a male teacher. Also, the name Brittagitta could be the name Birgitta and Mätta - Märta. 

Comment by Kristen Holquist Waite on August 29, 2012 at 11:11am

I forgot to say that Britta's father was Jonas Hultquist.

Comment by Kristen Holquist Waite on August 29, 2012 at 10:02am

So, now I have traced G. A. Hultqvist back several generations, and have come across a Britta (also listed on her birth record as Brittagitta) Regina Hultqvist, b. 20 May 1781 in Solberga. Her father is listed as a Magister, or Magitter, and I haven't been able to find the translation anywhere. Her mother is listed as fru Mätta Lovisa Hultquist. She married Peter Johansson, who is designated as a "socknesker (?)", and their son, Jonas also had that designation, and began using Hultqvist as his surname, rather than Petersson, as at first. I think it was after Britta's parents either left the parish or died, that he began using that name.

Any suggestions on how I might find out what those titles mean?

Some of these things just seem a little odd, since they are a bit different than the way most of the listings were given in that parish.

Comment by Janet Johnson on July 25, 2012 at 5:01am

Here is Gustav Adolph's emigration record as well:

 

Hultqvist, Gustaf Adolf Dräng (ogift man)

f. 8/3 1863 i Myresjö, Jönköpings län (Småland)

Utvandrad 24/3 1886 från Myresjö Klockareg, Myresjö, Jönköpings län (Småland) till Nordamerika

Källa: Husförhörslängd, s. 153

Emibas emigrationsakt: Myresjö F 1886 001

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