Pappa till Hilmer Emanuel Karlsson?

[Maria Langen]

I´m searching for my mothers grandfather.
My mothers name is Valborg Eriksson (still living). Her fathers name was Hilmer Emanuel Karlsson 4/2 1888 (Kinna, Älvsborgs län, Sweden – 25/11 1968 (Skarpnäck, Stockholm, Sweden). Hilmers mother, Matilda Svensdotter Johansson Gill ,19/6 1862 (Kinna, Älvsborg, sweden) – 31/1 1948 (Kullings-Skövde, Älvsborg, Sweden), was married to Elias Johansson Gill (1836-1910) from 1898. Hilmers father is registred as ”okänd”, as his two siblings Sven Edvard Ekblad, 9/3 1882 (Kinna, Älvsborg, Sweden) – 5/12 1970 (Gisslaved, Jönköping, Sweden) and Anna Emila Johansson, 24/1 1885 (Kinna, Älvsborg, Sweden) – 21/8 1916 (Stora Malm, Södermanland, Sweden). There is no evidence that Elias Gill should be the father – he was at the time in another marriage and has not accepted the sibllings as his even later when he married Matilda 1898.
Further on we have tried DNA (autosomal) via Valborg, myself, and Valborgs brother Gerhard. Gerhard also made a Y-DNA. All DNA-tests gave poor results so far.
We cannot know if the three siblings had the same father but apparently they were given different surnames; Ekblad, Johansson, Karlsson which could be a hint.

The family lived under very poor conditions during the time for the siblings childhood and stayed the early years in the smal ”torp” Gärdesgården in Kinna.

Maria Langen