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Titel: Äldre inlägg (arkiv) till 04 januari, 2014
Skrivet av: Lexia Bain skrivet 2013-11-29, 07:20
This is my first post, and it's about Pehr Österlund. I am putting the post here because he lived in Sundsvall for what I can track of his adult life. He was a tailor, born 26 March 1838 in Eifdalen, according to the HFL Sundsvall 1866-79 p652. It also gives his date of death as 27 January 1878, which record I could also find in Sundsvall's death book, with an age at death as 39 years 10 months and 1 day - so a little puzzle here. I also found him in Sundsvall's HFL 1851-66 f232 in 8 Rotan, crossed out and with notations saying he had moved in or out and the places Hassela and Forsa or Torsa. He didn't have family with him, but is noted as married. I wonder where his wife and son were? Anyway to start at the end: Pehr's son (Pehr Leonard {PL}) left Sweden and, according to his daughters, sailed around the world - I assume as crew. He arrived in Queensland, Australia, got a good job, educated himself and made a good life. PL's death certificate gives his father's name as Pehr Olof, which is slightly different to the Sundsvall records, but the same could be said for the details stated about his mother. Catharina Maria Wiklund, PL's mother can be traced easily from Sundsvall back to Lövånger, and in that parish for many generations. Their daughter, Emilia, died as a child; and Pehr's wife, Catharina died a couple of years later: I have found them in Sundsvall's death book too. At the time of his death, Pehr seems to have been engaged to a much younger woman, who had a son, Axel. Axel appears to have adopted the Österlund name, and was brought out to Queensland by his step-brother, PL. (Lotta Vikström used Axel's mother, Brita as an example in one of her papers on working class mothers who 'migrated' to Sundsvall and had illegitimate children.) Going back to Pehr the father, his birth place is Eifdalen, which is, I think, Älvdalen in Kopparberg. If that's correct, I can't find an 1838 birth record, however the birth book on ancestry.com at that time is feint, and the minister wasn't too keen on putting the year on the top of pages either! Does anyone have a better copy, or an idea of where I should look in the HFL? Unfortunately I don't know his patronymic, so all the birth records c. 1836-39 on familysearch are no help yet. I would appreciate any help/ suggestions. Thanks in anticipation elbe