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Titel: SV: Otto Carlberg : Son of Carl Johnson and Christ Lumson
Skrivet av: John Bentley skrivet 2016-11-11, 21:40
I looked at the marriage record, agreed with Lumson and then left it for half a day.
But I recalled how names changed in USA. Otto's fathers name has become Johnson from Jonsson. And elsewhere in the record Swedish names such as Andersson have become Anderson. Further this was the time when -dotter names for women were changing to -son, so all the womens name were eg Anderson. And Svensdotter became Svensson !
I have one suggestion. I looked at the mothers name and imagined myself as a pastor reading a name from a handwritten page, and putting down what he thought it said. Perhaps he could not read Svenson or Svensson. It became Lumson. Capital S and L similar. No letters with up or down strokes. Similar length word. A pastor not familiar with Swedish names. Not a perfect explanation but equally could have happened that way.