Anton Oslund

[Arthur Oslund]

I am looking for any information about Anton Oslund or Karla Hammarberg parents to my grandfather Tycko Ferdinand Oslund who emigrated to the USA about 1900. Anton Oslund lived in or around the town of Harnosand north of Sundsvall.  Karla eventually lived in the town of Hovid as Karla Molin.  Anton Oslund did not believe in infant baptism, but in reading his Bible, was convinced that a person should accept Christ as his or her savior and then be baptized by immersion as a testimony of his new life in the Lord.  Consequently he would not allow his children to learn the Lutheran catechism in school, or be baptized in the state church.  Fellow believers with him held meetings in his house and ultimately they built a chapel at Rigsta (?spelling).  Anton Oslund has been written up in some church histories as a moving spirit in religious freedom in Sweden.  Some of the furniture from his home is in a museum in Harnosand.

[Bo Nordenfors]

From Census Sweden 1900:
 
 
Record 3360394
 
Åslund, Tycko Ferdinand
Arbetare=laborer
 
b. 1879 in Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
Boy
 
Alafors Ångsåg= sawmill of Alafors
Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)  Hässjö is the parish, county of Västernorrland, province of Medelpad.
 
odöpt(not christened, i.e. not in Swedish Church)
 
Place of birth (original source): Hässjö Västernorrlands län
 
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Census 1890 tells us they were baptists:
 
 
Post 4339772
 
Hammarberg, Klara Johanna
Födorådst.i.e.  receiving her
          livlihood/support from the person to whom the farm
          now belongs. (usually related)
 
f. 1852  year of birth
 
Änka, mor i familjen  widowed, mother
 
Främmande Trosbekännare: Baptister Backås
Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
children:
 
Post 4339776
 
Maria Kristina
 
f. 1873 i Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
d.
Ogift kvinna, barn i familjen =unmarried woman, child
 
Främmande Trosbekännare: Baptister Backås
Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
Födelseort i källan: Hässjö Vester N. Län
 
Post 4339775
 
Margareta
 
f. 1876 i Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
d.
Flicka, barn i familjen  girl, child
 
Främmande Trosbekännare: Baptister Backås
Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
Födelseort i källan: Hässjö Vester N. Län
 
 
Post 4339774
 
Klara Helena
 
f. 1877 i Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
d.
Flicka, barn i familjen=   girl, child
 
Främmande Trosbekännare: Baptister Backås
Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
Födelseort i källan: Hässjö Vester N. Län
 
 
Post 4339777
 
Tycko Ferdinand
 
f. 1879 i Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
s.
Pojke, barn i familjen/  boy, child
 
Främmande Trosbekännare: Baptister Backås
Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
Födelseort i källan: Hässjö Vester N. Län
 
 
Post 4339773
 
Frida Sophia
 
f. 1881 i Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
d.
Flicka, barn i familjen    /girl, child
 
Främmande Trosbekännare: Baptister Backås
Hässjö (Västernorrlands län, Medelpad)
 
Födelseort i källan: Hässjö Vester N. Län
 
(Meddelandet ändrat av rannug den 10 januari, 2009)

[Bo Nordenfors]

Census 1880
 
 
About the person
Name:    Anton Antonsson Åslund
Homeparish:    Hässjö Västernorrlands län
Residence:    Backås
County:    Västernorrland
Year of birth:    1827
Parish of birth:    Hässjö Västernorrlands län
Occupation:    Nämndeman Hemmansägare
Marital status:    Married (G)
Gender:    Man
Family status code:    Father/husband (F)
Declaration of faith:    Baptist
Page:    7  
Row:    37  
 
 
   
About the household
 
Persons in the household
Fam. nr 1
Anton Antonsson Åslund, b. 1827 in Hässjö Västernorrlands län, Nämndeman Hemmansägare
Klara Johanna Hammarberg, b. 1852 in Ljustorp Västernorrlands län
Erik Antonsson, b. 1859 in Hässjö Västernorrlands län
Augustin, b. 1861 in Hässjö Västernorrlands län
Maria Kristina, b. 1873 in Hässjö Västernorrlands län
Margareta, b. 1876 in Hässjö Västernorrlands län
Klara Helena, b. 1877 in Hässjö Västernorrlands län
Tycho Ferdinand, b. 1879 in Hässjö Västernorrlands län
 
 
Fam. nr 2
Märta Stina Ersdotter, b. 1863 in Hässjö Västernorrlands län, Piga=maid
Fam. nr 3
Sara Katarina Ersdotter, b. 1853 in Viksjö Västernorrlands län, Piga
Source:  www.svar.ra.se  (subscription)

[Bo Nordenfors]

 
Looking into the clerical survey for Hässjö between 1871 and 1880, volume AI:8 pg 36, GID 2055.12.49700:  
 
appears Brita Stina Andersdotter was the spouse in Anton Antonsson's first marriage. She was born in 1822 and died in 1872
they married in 1851.
 
Anton Antonsson Åslund was born in 1827, June 16, at Backås, Hässjö.
 
second marriage (1873) to Christina Catharina Hammarberg (1849 -- 1873)
 
third marriage (in 1876) to Klara Johanna Hammarberg, b. 1852
 
the Hammarberg women came from Ljustorp parish
 
(Meddelandet ändrat av rannug den 10 januari, 2009)

[Bo Nordenfors]

Tycko Ferdinand was born on 29 July 1879 i Hässjö.

[Arthur Oslund]

Thanks for the help.  I realy appreciate it.  I am working on a family tree and this information is wonderful.  Thanks again.