Titel: SV: Translation help
Skrivet av: Don Kaiser skrivet 2020-03-14, 04:04
Aha! Leif! Good to hear from you. So, it says that he called himself Björklund from 6 Nov 1863. That is so great. And it's not a guess about being derived from Björkenas. The attached article actually says so.
Carl's older brother John Jonasson was fighting for the Union Army in the American Civil War around the same time. I forgot that he used the surname Buckman, an Americanization of Björklund, so Carl wasn't the first to use the name.
When my great grandfather moved from Binga No. 3 to Copenhagen in 1869, he was known as Sven Jonasson. I haven't been able to find him arriving back in Sweden from Copenhagen but he pops up again in the 1871-1880 census as Sven Jonasson Björklund in Skellefteå.