Hällström (Hellstrom/Halstrom), Katarina b1859 Edsele & fam From Helgum to US 1893

[Jack Howe]

Hej all!  My great-grandmother, Katarina Johanna (Sahlin) Hällström (aka: Hallstrom/Hellström/Hellstrom/Halstrom) born Feb. 27, 1859 at Forsmo, Edsele Parish, Västernorrlands Län. Her husband, Jakob Abraham Hellström died Jan 6, 1892 at Holmstrand, Helgum Parish (same County/Province). Widow Katarina emigrated to the U.S. on July 1, 1893 along with her four children: my grandfather Abram Georg (George Halstrom in U.S.), granduncle Isak Werner (Verner Holstrom in U.S.), grandaunts Ester Marg. Elisabet (Esther) and Ädla Georgina Johanna (Edla). (I don't know the last names used by the aunts in the U.S. prior to their marriages.) Upon arrival in the U.S. they immediately headed for the Swedish Settlement, a farming community in Marshall County, Kansas (near towns of Vliets & Axtell). Katarina remarried to Christian Boman (Bowman), also a Swedish immigrant.
 
I would like to know if anyone can identify the Swedish port from which they departed on 7/1/1893, the ship(s) upon which they sailed during their travels, and their date of arrival in the U.S.  I was told by the archive folks at Ellis Island that the arrival records for that time period were destroyed in a fire many years ago.
 
Thanks in advance for any information.

[Judy Olson Baouab]

There was a fire at Ellis Island in 1897. I've never heard about a fire there in 1893.
 
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0A13FC3D5911738DDDAC0994DE40 5B8785F0D3
 
 
http://members.tripod.com/~L_Alfano/BrooklynEagleJune15.htm
 
 
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/mfh-ellisisland-06.htm
 
http://library.thinkquest.org/5101/brief.history.htm
 
http://genrootsblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/ellis-island-castle-garden-which-one.ht ml
 
From the last listed site:
 
The Ellis Island fire of the night of June 14, 1897 also destroyed some Ellis Island administrative records and the New York immigration passenger lists. However, separate New York customs passenger lists were kept elsewhere (at the Customs House), and they have survived. So ship passenger lists for the early Ellis Island period (1892-June 1897) are available for research along with the rest of the New York passenger lists, beginning with 1820.  
 
 
The port of New York, which in 1893 had the Ellis Island receiving station, is not at all the only possible port used by your ancestors. Other major ports included Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc. and many headed towards the U.S. went to a port in Canada first, such as Quebec.
 
You probably already know the information from the Emibas CD but it might make it easier for others to search for this woman if they had the information handy.
 
Post 1037128
 
Sahlin Hellström, Katarina Johanna
Änka = widow (widow)
 
b. 2/27/1859 in Ed, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
 
Emigrated 7/1/1893
from Holmstrand, Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
to Kansas, USA
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 162
 
Emibas migration file ID: Helgum Y 1893 017
 
Un-normalized versions:
 
Place of destination: Kansas
Country of destination: USA
 
Post 1037129
 
Jakobsson Hellström, Abraham Georg
Bondeson = farmer's son. (unmarried man)
 
b. 1/28/1883 in Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
 
Emigrated 7/1/1893
from Holmstrand, Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
to Kansas, USA
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 162
 
Emibas migration file ID: Helgum Y 1893 018
 
Un-normalized versions:
 
Place of destination: Kansas
Country of destination: USA
 
Post 1037130
 
Jakobsson Hellström, Isak Verner
Bondeson (unmarried man)
 
b. 6/30/1884 in Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
 
Emigrated 7/1/1893
from Holmstrand, Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
to Kansas, USA
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 162
 
Emibas migration file ID: Helgum Y 1893 019
 
Un-normalized versions:
 
Place of destination: Kansas
Country of destination: USA
 
Post 1037131
 
Jakobsdotter Hellström, Ester Margreta Bettan
Bondedotter = farmer's daughter.  (unmarried woman)
 
b. 1/29/1888 in Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
 
Emigrated 7/1/1893
from Holmstrand, Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
to Kansas, USA
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 162
 
Emibas migration file ID: Helgum Y 1893 020
 
Un-normalized versions:
 
Place of destination: Kansas
Country of destination: USA
 
Post 1037132
 
Jakobsdotter Hellström, Edla Georgina Johanna
Bondedotter (unmarried woman)
 
b. 12/31/1890 in Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
 
Emigrated 7/1/1893
from Holmstrand, Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
to Kansas, USA
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 162
 
Emibas migration file ID: Helgum Y 1893 021
 
Un-normalized versions:
 
Place of destination: Kansas
Country of destination: USA
 
I don't see them on the Emihamn database so they probably didn't leave through a port in Sweden. Perhaps they left from a port in Norway. Other possibilities include a port in Denmark or Germany.
 
Judy

[Judy Olson Baouab]

Also, the 1 July 1893 date is the date of registering to leave Helgum parish. It is not the date of leaving Sweden. They had to have time to get to the port.
 
Judy

[Bo Nordenfors]

They left 12 July 1893  from Trondheim, Norway, with Juno from Dominion Line, heading for Frankfurt, Kansas.
Source: Digitalarkivet.no
 
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=15&filnamn= EMITROND&gardpostnr=79098&merk=79098#ovre

[Jack Howe]

Thanks so much Judy for the quick and info-packed reply! I lived on Governors Island (when it was a USCG base) in NY harbor, directly across from Ellis & Liberty Islands in the late 1980's. Unfortunately, that was before I inherited all the genealogy stuff accumulated over the last 300 years. I've seen several variations on the spelling of our Hellström family name and had never seen the patronymic Jakobsson inserted in the name in any other papers, although it makes sense since my G-GF was Jakob. Do you think there is any correct spelling, or would they all be interchangable? I've seen Hällström in a bible entry written in Katarina's hand, Hellström and Hellstrom on my grandfathers Birth & Christening book extract, Hallstrom in a newspaper clipping, Halstrom for grandfather George, and Holstrom for granduncle Verner. I'm a true novice using genealogy web sites...this being my 2nd post at Anbytarform. (Yesterday was my first.) and I've never heard of the Emibas CD. But I'm learning more every day. Thanks again!
 
Oh, and before closing, I see you have a Löfgren interest. I do too. Any link to Eric Löfgren b. 1726 in Ramsele parish, or his sons Henric b. 1764, or Israel b. 1765 in Helgumsby, Helgum parish?
 
Jack

[Bo Nordenfors]

Maybe this is not pertinent: I checked upon pg 162 in the clerical survey of Helgum at the time they left (page was given in the EMIBAS record)  
- volume is Helgum AI:9A (1882--1895) and for Isak Verner there has been added a note: Address 1941, Sept. 4:
4804-31 Ave. South
Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[Jack Howe]

Hej Bo!  I feel like I won the lottery! Thank you so much. That is exactly what I was hoping to learn.
Best regards,
Jack

[Jack Howe]

Bo...our posts passed like ships in the night. But yes, my grand uncle Verner lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota and I remember visiting him and grandaunt Hilma (Lindberg) there in the 1960's. That 1941 date is about the same time as my grandfather George obtained an Utdrag av Födelse- och Dopbok, (on Sept 27, 1941) probably needed to prove identity & relationship with my greatgrandmother Katarina after her death in 1940. Thanks once again!
Jack

[Bo Nordenfors]

Dominion line sounds not correct, Juno is known as a Wilson Line steamer , take a look
http://www.norwayheritage.com/gallery/gallery.asp?action=viewimage&categoryid=10 &text=&imageid=367&box=&shownew=
 
Wilson line was known as a transfer line between Scandinavia and Hull, England.
The Transatlantic steamers mainly left from Liverpool.

[Judy Olson Baouab]

Hi Jack,
 
Oh, and before closing, I see you have a Löfgren interest. I do too. Any link to Eric Löfgren b. 1726 in Ramsele parish, or his sons Henric b. 1764, or Israel b. 1765 in Helgumsby, Helgum parish?
 
I am unfortunately not related to you. My Löfgren was the foster father of my farmor (father's mother). He was August Andersson Löfgren, born 24 October 1855 in Vendel parish, Uppsala county. I have his ancestry for a few generations and there were no Löfgrens in his family before him, as far as I can tell.
 
 
 
Judy

[Bo Nordenfors]

A brother of Jakob Abraham also emigrated, according to EMIBAS: Perhaps you alreday know.  
 
 
Post 1037102
 
Hellström, Nils Abraham
Arrendator=tenant farmer (married man)
 
b. 8/9/1863 in Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
 
Emigrated 5/31/1892
from Holmstrand, Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
to USA
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 161
 
Emibas migration file ID: Helgum Y 1892 012
 
Post 1037103
 
Persdotter Hellström, Ida Karolina
Hustru=wife (married woman)
 
b. 6/24/1865 in Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
 
Emigrated 5/31/1892
from Holmstrand, Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
to USA
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 161
 
Emibas migration file ID: Helgum Y 1892 013
 
Post 1037104
 
Nilsson Hellström, Abraham Alfons
Dibarn (unmarried man)
 
b. 2/24/1892 in Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
 
Emigrated 5/31/1892
from Holmstrand, Helgum, Västernorrlands län (Ångermanland)
to USA
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 161
 
Emibas migration file ID: Helgum Y 1892 014

[Jack Howe]

Judy & Bo,
 
Judy - sorry we're not related thru the Löfgren's, maybe next time.  
 
Bo - I wonder if the trip was booked through Dominion, with the first leg using Juno of the Wilson line and then they boarded either the S/S Vancouver or S/S Sarnia of the Dominion line that sailed from Liverpool and arrived at Quebec, Canada on either 7/24 or 7/28/1893.
 
And NO... I never knew GGF Jakob had a brother that emigrated. I knew he had other relatives but I had no info on any of them. Thanks again for the GREAT information!
Jack

[Ingela Martenius]

Jack,
 
There's no correct spelling of the family name. In those days spelling a name was how you wanted it to be, each time you wrote it.  
Also, even today, many people spell their names one way while the authorities have it spelled another - so which spelling is the correct one? There are even noble families - the most codified ones of all - that spell their names in different ways, none of them wrong.
 
Löfgren is a very common name; even I have a Löfgren in the family, on a lateral line - but they come from the other end of the country (Skåne). Family name genealogy doesn't work in Sweden except for the nobility and to some extent for clerical and smithing families (though you should of course ask, like you did - there's always that off chance...).
 
Ingela

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