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Särskilda ämnen & övrigt => Discussions in English => Ämnet startat av: Jack Stoughton skrivet 2021-07-25, 00:42
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Please help with reading the birth record for #53 in Västerås Domkyrkoförsamling (U) C:15b (1880-1886) Image 46 / Page 237 (AID: v74787.b46.s237, NAD: SE/ULA/11727). A .pdf of the page is attached. I am most interested in inscription in the right hand column. Thank you so much for taking time to help with this.
Jack Stoughton
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Bertil Walfrid Eugéne, born 1882-04-14, baptized 1882-04-19, mother the maid (piga) Sofia Cecilia Paulina Hedqvist. Its her first, she is 27 years old.
Hon kyrktagen i Malmö Caroli församl.
såsom blifv. h. till cigarrarbetaren Otto
Valfrid Gran som uppgifvit sig vara
barnets fader.
She has been churched (1882-08-13) as the intended wife of cigar worker Otto etc, who has admitted being the father of the child.
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Thank you, Staffan. That was a big help!
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Correction of name: His name was Ontel (not Bertil, Antil or Onkel) which appears in family archives and genealogy programs). He was my grandfather's brother. Both my grandfather James and father Lennart mentioned his name sometimes when I was younger. When Ontel emigrated to the United States in 1901, he changed his name to Ontel Walfrid Grahn. Ontel died in 1926 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Mysterious? Ontel's mother, Sofia Cecilia Evelina (not Paulina) (sometimes called Hedqvist) with birth name Bergström. "Otto Valfrid Gran has declared himself to be the child's father." Ontel's birth is 14 APR 1882 in Västerås, BUT according to the church archives, Otto emigrated to America 12 APR 1880 and came back to Sweden 6 JULY 1882. Can't find him in the 1880 passenger list from the Ellis Island archives. I am guessing that Otto never actually went to America but that he stayed in Sweden, perhaps in the Västerå region. Otto is listed as the father of Ontel before Otto is entered as an immigrant to "Humle XII, Malmö Caroli, Malmöhus län (Skåne county)" 6 JULY 1882 from America. Conclusion: The timeline is not correct according to the archives. Otto to America 12 APR 1880. Ontel born 14 APR 1882. Otto to Sweden 6 JULY 1882. ???
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Correction of a part I commented earlier (after further research in archives): Sofia Cecilia Evelina (sometimes called Hedqvist) with birth name Bergström emigrated from Sweden to America 7 AUG 1879 and came back to Sweden 31 DEC 1881. Therefore, it is likely that Sofia met Otto in America who went to America 12 APR 1880 and came back to Sweden 6 JULY 1882. However, find neither Otto nor Sofia in passenger lists 1879-1880 from Ellis Island archives.
According to archives, I also see that Eric Gustaf Bergström emigrated from Sweden to America on 7 AUG 1879.