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Författare Ämne: Johan Nordlander family in Gudmundrå  (läst 3291 gånger)

2019-04-12, 18:57
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I am working on my family’s immigration and was wondering if there is any information on the Johan Nordlander family in Gudmundrå. Johan immigrated in 1902 - destination West Superior, Wisconsin with his contact there Erik Wiklund who traveled with him. His two oldest children Einar (my great-grandfather) and Signe joined him in Duluth, MN in 1909. His wife, Anna Brita, died in January 1910 from blood poisoning. He returned to Sweden and in April 1910 returned to Duluth with his two youngest children, Helga and John and $530 (a lot of money back then - did he sell property?).
Is there any record on how Anna Brita became ill - was she injured somehow? Did the family own a small farm? What was Johan’s job before he left? Is Erik Wiklund a family member? Etc
Any information about their lives in Sweden would be most appreciated.
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Lynette Norlander Case

2019-04-13, 03:39
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Do you read Swedish Church records? Johan is found in Gudmundrå (Y) AIIa:2 (1899-1921) Bild 2520 / sid 598 (AID: v121372.b2520.s598, NAD: SE/HLA/1010049). Johan indeed owned a very small farm, a "Torp" under Frånö no 1, and it was sold and got a new owner, Frans Öberg(?), but his profession was "Eldare" = Stoker. The death record in Gudmundrå (Y) F:4 (1901-1915) Bild 1400 / sid 134 (AID: v121423.b1400.s134, NAD: SE/HLA/1010049) say nothing about how Anna Britta got blood poisoning. They married 1891-03-22 and had at least five children, but the youngest died 1902-02-10, just a few days after Johan's travel to N. Amerika. There is no record here that Johan returned 1910, and that is as expected because he was only visiting, but the two youngest moved out 1910-05-23. Petrus Wiklund with wife and Jonas Emanuel Wiklund (probably not their son but young enough to be that) moved out from Gudmundrå the same day 1902, but you say an Erik Wiklund traveled with him?

2019-04-13, 16:12
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Thank you for the information. I have found most of my information from the ship manifests. Erik Wiklund immigrated in 1892. I think he had been visiting in Sweden in 1902 and then brought Johan Nordlander, his nephews Jonas and Peter Wiklund (and his wife Sarah Lisa) back to Superior, Wisconsin with him.

2019-04-13, 23:37
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OK, Erik was a visitor 1902 and was not moving out from Gudmundrå, just as Johan on visit 1910, thus not seen in Church Records. No more questions?

2019-04-13, 23:51
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I am not sure what information you have access to there in Sweden but I am interested in anything you might be able to tell me about Johan and Anna Brita and their children. Johan died from tuberculosis in October 1910 in Duluth, MN. Our family knows very little about him. His four children who immigrated here were very good, hard-working individuals. My 90 year old father and I are writing a document about our family’s immigration to pass down to the next generation. So anything you can tell us about the family would be most appreciated. Thank you.

2020-04-12, 02:49
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I finally figured out how to access some of the Swedish documents online and was reviewing this one. Is there any way to determine when Johan sold the farm and for how much? Why would he sell the farm? Maybe to finance his trip to America?

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Lynette Norlander Case

2020-04-12, 09:24
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I'm not sure that it was a farm (however small). Johan is recorded as sawmill worker and stoker already in Gudmundrå AI/8b pp. 454, 491.
The records of the Swedish National Survey Office show that a lot of small allotments were parceled off larger estates and farms in Frånö in the 1880's and 1890's and bought by workers. Those allotments were often priced at around SEK 500. I haven't found Johan's name among the parcelling documents, but it might well be that he bought one of those.
Buying/selling real estate in Sweden is always registered by the courts. I've found Johan twice in the records from Gudmundrå tingslag, Ångermanlands södra domsaga.
He buys the house/cottage Sept. 10 1896 and the title deed is issued Febr. 11 1897:
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/H0001064_00069
No information about how much he paid. This might be in the contract, which is probably archived even if it's not accessible online.
Next mentioning of Johan is from 1910, after the estate inventory following Anna Brita's death. Johan and the children are registered as the owners of two cottages: Lövbacken No. 1 and Forslunds torp.
Both cottages are sold to Petrus Öberg and his wife May 22 1910 (title deed issued Nov. 1 1910):
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/H0001065_00138
It's probably now that Petrus Öberg's name is entered in the parish records as the new owner.
So they seem to have kept their home in Sweden during their first eight years in the US.

2020-04-12, 21:06
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After Anna Brita Nordlander died 1910 the home was sold. In the inventory the value was SEK 1200 for both places. Today that would be SEK 65917 (consumer price index). After the debts were paid there remained SEK 895.
Ångermanlands södra domsagas häradsrätt (Y) FII:7 (1910) Bild 950 / sid 40 (AID: v516771.b950.s40, NAD: SE/HLA/1040098)

2020-04-12, 21:32
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Thank you so much for this information. It is all extremely interesting. Johan returned to Duluth, MN with Helga and John and $530. Sadly he died in October 1910 from tuberculosis.
A question about household examination books. It seems there are multiple families listed on each page. Are they neighbors? I noticed Anna Brita’s parents are at the bottom of the same page as the Nordlander family (#598 Gudmundrå 1899-1921)?
Where did you find those sale/purchase property documents? I can’t navigate to them on my own on riksarkivet. I know how to look at the household examination books and such, but not the court archives.

Thank you for your help,
Lynette

2020-04-12, 22:32
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Hi Kristina,
Would you please link the image to me? I don’t think I have access to the document.
Thank you,
Lynette

2020-04-13, 00:54
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The reference to the inventory is to Arkiv Digital, a pay service. I don't think it is available at Riksarkivet.

2020-04-13, 01:05
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Kristina,
Thank you! I did not know about that website. I will definitely check it out. :-)
Lynette

2020-04-13, 09:18
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Records of title deeds are found here:
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/lagfartsbocker

Easiest way to find out to which court district a certain parish belongs might be to look up the parish in Swedish Wikipedia.

There is a register of inventories at Riksarkivet: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bouppteckningar but not all of them are digitized. My impression is that ArkivDigital covers more of them. Riksarkivet offers a link for ordering copies (for a fee).

2020-04-13, 19:16
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Thank you for the information.

And one more question: Do you know the process for being allowed to live on the parish poor farm? I can’t find an answer to this anywhere. My family was living there from about 1887-1894 or so. Did you have to go before the town council? Or was it something that the church was involved with?

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Lynette

2020-04-13, 19:44
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At that time, poor relief was a matter for the local municipality.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_municipal_reforms_of_1862 for a short overview.
In theory the reforms of 1862 drew a line between secular administration and the church. in practice the links could still be close. The vicar had the right to participate when the local Poor Relief Board was convened - if i remember correctly till 1918.

2020-04-13, 20:34
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Would there be a record in the Frånö documents of my family members, Erik and Brita Stina Nordlander, being sent to the poor farm? If so, do you know where I should search?

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Lynette

2020-04-13, 20:50
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There will definitely (99 %) be records of your ancestors in the Poor Relief Board's documents.
Fråno was part of Gudmundrå municipality, today part of Kramfors municipality. The documents should therefore be found here: https://www.kramfors.se/kommun--demokrati/arkiv-och-diarium.html
The documents won't be digitized, but it is possible that they can search and provide copies for a fee.

2020-04-13, 20:54
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A thousand thank you’ s!!!!! :-))))))

2020-04-22, 19:08
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Need a bit more help deciphering these property purchase/sale documents. I searched through the court cases and found all of these transactions for Johan Nordlander. In 1910, it appears he sold two cottages, but it appears he purchased five. I am going by the comments in the far right column that states he is the new owner of rooms 6, 21, 18, 25 and so on but sells different number rooms. It is all very confusing to me.

Any help would be most appreciated.

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Lynette Norlander Case

2020-04-23, 09:41
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The "rooms" are the horizontal lines you have pictured. Frånö consisted originally of eight farms. Your photographs are from a land-book (jordregistret), one spread for each number, Frånö 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. When a real estate is sold the event is listed in this land-book, the buyer in the third column, the seller in the fourth column. The first column is the number of the "rum", the second a description of the property.
The original farm has the designation Frånö 1:1, 2:1, 3:1 and so on. When an real estate is split new numbers are used. If Frånö 1:1 is divided by two brothers the new real estates are designated Frånö 1:2 and Frånö 1:3. But the buyer was permitted to give his property a name of its own, in the case of the property Johan Nordlander bought from Frånö Nya AB in 1896 it was designated Granbacken 1:1. But this new property seems to include even the property he bought from Jon Näsman in 1897. That is probably why the name of the property, Granbacken, was created, because it consisted of parts from both Frånö 1 and Frånö 2. You can leave rum 30 out of account beause it was wrongly noted "Orätt införd, se Frånö nr 1 rum 6".

2020-04-23, 16:07
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Thank you for the information.
I am still a bit confused. What actually did Johan purchase? Two separate houses (one in 1897 and the other in 1899) and some land?
Also, would you know the location of this property on a map? And do you think the dwelling(s) still exist? I am planning a trip to Sweden next summer and would like to at least see the location where my family lived.
Thank you!

2020-04-23, 16:41
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Iagree with Per Sundin that the registry suggests that Johan bought two (probably adjoining) pieces of land (not necessarily any houses) which were given the new name Granbacken 1:1.

This property still exists, and there's a house ther (or was, since the map might be a few years old). And the dotted line leading to the house suggests a footpath rather than a road accessible with a car.

See the pic below: Granbacken is situated southwest of Frånö.

2020-04-23, 16:51
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Thank you for your patience with me.
So this property is not household #598 where they were living in the early 1900’s? This is a land purchase separate from that?

2020-04-24, 09:31
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I'm confused, too.

In 1897, Johan buys Granbacken No. 1: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/H0001065_00096
In 1899, he buys Lövbacken No. 1: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/H0001065_00137

He sells "Forslunds torp", part of Frånö No. 2, to Petter Öberg in 1910:
# 68, https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/H0001066_00125 pencilled note Granbacken 1:1

But he also sells Lövbacken and "Forslund's torp", part of Frånö No. 1, to Petter Öberg in 1910:
# 26, https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/H0001065_00138 pencilled note mentioning both Lövbacken No. 1 and Granbacken No. 1.

I cannot figure out how Lövbacken and Granbacken are related to each other, nor can I understand why Forslund's torp occurs in two different entries 1910.

 I can't find Lövbacken on today's maps of Frånö (there's an area called Lövbacken in neighbouring Lunde, but that must be a coincidence). It might be that Lövbacken and Granbacken were adjoining allotments that have later been merged.

Again, local knowledge - i.e. the local heritage association - might help. Otherwise one probably has to visit the regional archive in Härnösand, digging through those documents regarding buying/selling that haven't been digitised.




2020-04-24, 15:09
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Is it correct to say that he owned the home he lived in and some other land? I really want to know that as he grew up on the parish poor farm so owning the home he and his family lived in says a lot for his hard work and ambition.
This is the last piece of the puzzle in putting together my family’s life in Sweden. I did not know those property purchase/sale documents were online. And those maps were wonderful! Thank you for sending me those links and for all your help in deciphering them.

2020-04-24, 16:50
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Yes, the records definitely show that he did own a piece of land (or maybe two pieces), most likely with a house where he and his family lived.
Not a very big piece, though - there's one record of Lövbacken No.1, specifying the area as 0.5371 hectare or roughly 1.3 acres. But enough for a house, a vegetable patch, a pig, maybe even a cow. And of course he had his paycheck, working as a stoker.
The sawmills and paper mills that were established along the coast during the last decades of the 19th century offered the opportunity to go from utter poverty to, if not wealth, so at least conditions stable enough for marrying and raising a family. But hard work and ambition were necessary, too.



2020-04-24, 16:57
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I am so very grateful to you for all of your help. Thank you.

2020-04-24, 17:32
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You're welcome  :) And I hope your visit to Sweden next year will be fruitful.

2021-04-12, 15:08
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Is there a map of Frånö that would show where the property in Frånö 1 at 5 7/8 is located? My family sold this property in 1910. Also, I am wondering if there is a photo of the school my great-grandfather attended - they were living in the house in Frånö 1 at that time.

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Lynette Norlander Case

2021-04-12, 16:31
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I haven't been able to find a map from around 1910, but here's a map with descriptions from 1802, showing Frånö 1 (A) and Frånö 2 (B):

https://historiskakartor.lantmateriet.se/historiskakartor/image/lms2_4c4d535f5831382d373a38_1_1.png
https://historiskakartor.lantmateriet.se/historiskakartor/image/lms2_4c4d535f5831382d373a38_1_2.png

The lower half of the first image shows the main part of the property, the upper half show separate parts located in the "outback".

Not easy to find the location today, even if the main road is visible and probably have roughly the same stretch today. Note that the map's North arrow doesn't point at "twelwe o'clock" but at "two o'clock".

Today, Frånö 1 has of course been split into several smaller properties. One cannot be 100 percent sure that old property codes haven't changed, but most likely today's Frånö 1:19, 1:30, and so on are parts of what once was Frånö 1.

For Frånö today, you can visit https://minkarta.lantmateriet.se/
Choose English as your language. Choose the map layer "Property map" (button to the right), and search for "Frånö 1".

2021-04-12, 16:41
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2021-07-02, 04:12
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I am trying to find information on all of Johan and Anna Brita’s children and their spouses here in the United States. All four of the children married fellow Swedish immigrants.

The immigration records for Helga Nordlander’s husband, Hugo Lundgren (no middle name on birth record, born April 8, 1892 in Östra Fahlmark in the Skellefteå Parish) are extremely confusing. I can’t locate him in the outgoing records or the summary population report. There is a notation for him in the Skellefteå household examination book (Band IX 1912-1926 household #150) that says he was non-existent on 12/31/1913 and also a notation about military training in 1913. However, according to his naturalization records, he arrived in Boston on May 6, 1913 (this has to be correct for the person to become a citizen). I found the ship manifest - but his brother’s name, Karl, appears on it. Also, both of the names Karl and Hugo are on the first draft of his naturalization record which was not common but many immigrants changed their name when arriving in the USA.
Did he complete his military training? Did he leave from a different town? For some reason, did he have to use his brother’s name when leaving Sweden. Also, I can’t decipher the first words of the non-existent notation which may give a clue.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Lynette Norlander Case

2024-02-14, 02:02
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Lynette,

I am not sure if you are still interested in information about Granbacken. I found this forum after speaking with the current owner of the property. The house has been renovated and still exists. My grandfather, Viktor Karlsson, bought it in 1932, and rebuilt it and moved in 1935 with his wife Estrid Karlsson, whom he had married that same year. My father and his two sisters both grew up there. In 1949, Viktor and Estrid moved from Granbacken into Frånö proper. The property changed hands at least one more time before it was bought by the current owners.

Please let me know if you are interested in more information about Granbacken. I have myself learned quite a bit from this thread.

2024-02-14, 02:28
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Hi Joakim Karlson,

I would be interested in any information you have on Granbacken! I found the sales agreement from 1910 in my grandmother’s belongings. My great-great grandfather sold the house in 1910 after his wife died from blood poisoning. He returned to Sweden to get his two youngest children and returned to Duluth, MN with them.

Thank you!
Lynette

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