Hi Eva,
I think I may have given you the wrong idea, my mother was in fact Welsh. She married my father Francis Carlson who was Beda's fourth Child.
I am trying to find out about my Swedish grandmother. Her name was Beda Wilhelmina Karlsson. Her date of birth was 3rd may 1875 or 1876 she died in Cardiff Wales UK in Oct 1950 aged 74. She is believed to have come from Gothenburg. She had a twin sister named Anna Marie who stayed in Sweden.
Beda was also known as Beatrice Carlson while she lived in Wales. I know Swedish people often changed their names when they settled in another country. Beda had a daughter named Helena. I have found a record of a Beatrice Karlsson in the catholic Saint David's cathedral baptism records in Cardiff. It is a record of Helena's confirmation, Helena was born Aug 26th 1905. This seems right because my father's eldest sister's name was Helena. It would seem that Beatrice had a hard time when she first came to Cardiff. Helena was taken into Nazareth House, an orphanage, when she was six. She was there until she was sixteen. My grandmother had three other children but Helena did not come home, very sad. I know my grandmother kept in touch as she was at Helena's confirmation in 1913. I don't know in which country Helena was born. I have tried to get her birth certificate, but they can't find any record of her in the Cardiff register office. My father's baptism is also recorded in the church records.
My grandfather was John Carlson who was born about 1870-1880 in Gothenburg area. They both came to Wales about 1900, both worked in the Merchant Navy. He was a donkeyman and she a stewardess. It is possible they did not emmigrate but signed off their ship in the UK.
John was killed in late 1917 or early 1918 when his ship was torpedoed. There is a record of a John Carlson being killed at sea in the last quarter of 1917. He came from Cardiff and was aged 39. His ship was the Mergerison but I can't find this ship in any other records. This seems to be my grandfather as all the data seems to fit.
Please help if you have any information or can give me any leads for my search. I understand there is a CD Goteborg emigranten with databases of Swedish records but I don't have access to this data.
Thanks
bob.carlson@talk21.com
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