Titel: Malmstrom name origin
Skrivet av: Britt-Marie Waller skrivet 2010-01-24, 12:40
Hi Jim!
I guess this is your ancestor? In 1881-08-26 August Fridolf Malmström (son of a farmer) emigrates from Björntorp, Grebo (BI:3 Grebo). Emigrates to obestämd ort, troligen Amerika, which means unknown place, probably America.
Here is August Fridolf and his family at the time he emigrates, AI:14 Grebo p 96 Björntorp:
Carl Fredik Malmström was born 1809-06-07 (C:3 Grebo p 65) son of the farmer and juryman Magnus Pettersson and his wife Maria Beata Beckvall at Björntorp.
His father Magnus Pettersson never uses the name Malmström. He later becomes a foreman of the jury and dies at Björntorp 1852-05-30. He was born in 1774-12-20 at Norrby, Grebo (C:2 p 586) to Petri (Peter) Månsson and his wife Lena Sophia Adamsdotter.
In 1845 Carl Fredrik Magnusson Malmström moves to Askeby parish with his wife to the farm Stämne södergård as a leaseholder. When he left Grebo the name Malmström isn´t noted in the parishrecord, but in the moving in record for Askeby he is for the first time named Malmström.
In this area of Grebo and Åtvid parishes there are many mines and the name Malmström are maybe connected to this fact.