Sigrid Hasselqvist

[Annika Malmquist]

I'm trying to find more information on Sigrid Nilsson born 1895 i Assarum, Blekinge and emigrated to USA 1914 (noted on Ellis Island with Oscar II).
In later dokument she is named Sigrid Hasselqvist whith adress in New York, 382 East 10 st(1958)
 
I wonder if anyone know of relativs to her or abut her life.
She is younger sister to my grand mother.

[Karen Kelsey]

On the 1920 U.S. Federal census there is a listing for a Sigrid Nilson, age 24, who lived in Manhatten, NY County, New York.  She was a cook, and it says that she came from Sweden in 1914.  She was living on west 57th street, and there is a family listed above her name who might be her employers.  Their names were John, Margaret, Jeannine and Oilette Villon (hard to read, but he was French), and below them were listed a nurse, a maid, a cook (Sigrid) and a governess.  I do not have access to the 1930 census here at home, but I will look when I get to a library.  I could not find her listed in the social security death index under either Hasselquist or under Sigrid, using her date of birth as a delimiter.  I could not find her sister, Amanda, listed on the 1920 census, so she must have married by then and taken another name?  Next week I will look at the 1930 census.

[Annika Malmquist]

Thank you.
I know about her sister Amanda(born 1893-feb-10)that she married Andersson and that she was dead 1958 and only had one son alive att that time his name is Roy Andersonn living in Tampa Florida(1958)

[Karen Kelsey]

I could find no further census information for Sigrid Nilsson, no matter how I searched - under Nilsson, Nilson, Nelson, Hasselquist, or Sigrid in the 1930 census.  I could not find her death date either.

[Annika Malmquist]

Thank you for trying, do you have any ideas about how to go on serchin since I know she was alive and living in New York 1958

[Karen Kelsey]

Perhaps someone who is better at using the Ancestry site could try to find Sigrid for you.  I gave up searching her by last name on the 1930 census, and searched using her given name, and that gave me too many hits.  Could someone try to find Sigrid Nilson or Sigrid Hasselquist in the 1930 census?  I have access to HeritageQuest here at home, and can only look through 1920.

[Karen Kelsey]

I will try to show you the 1920 census where Sigrid was listed.  I hope this image shows up OK and you can read it.

[Karen Kelsey]

I will try this again-

[Laura Bonde]

Annika,  
 
I've had the same difficulty as Karen. The closest I've found in the 1930 Census is:
 
4020 71st Street, Dwelling 73, Household 127, District 195, Queens, New York
 
Hasselquist, Edwin Head age 36, 31 years old when married, born in Sweden with both parents born in Sweden, came to the US in 1921, naturalized citizen working as a printer in a print shop.  
 
Hasselquist, Signe wife, age 38, 32 years old when married, born in Sweden with both parents born in Sweden, immigrated in 1914, naturalized citizen, occupation none.  
 
They have two children, Edwin, age 4 and 4 months born in New York; and Roy 2 months old.  
 
Then, in the 1920 Census I found:
1441 Union Street, Dwelling 150, Family 403, District 1103, Brooklyn Assembly District 18, Kings County, New York
 
Nelson, Signe  25 years old, born in Sweden.  She is a servant in the household of Robert and Margaret Thedford.  Her year of immigration is unclear it could be 1914, but it could also say 1912.  In the index, the name was recorded as Wigne Nelson.  
 
The Social Security Death Index had the following.  
Edwin Hasselquist  
Name: Edwin Hasselquist  
Last Residence: 19460  Phoenixville, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America  
Born: 18 Apr 1894  
Died: Feb 1966  
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951
 
Hälsningar,
Laura

[Eva Telbrant]

Annika,
 
Are you certain she is later named Hasselqvist?
Edwin Hasselquist mentioned in messages above was a cousin of my grandmother and I have looked into the background of his wife Sigrid. Her maiden name was Wickman and she came to US in 1914 but was born in 1891 in Stockholm so I belive this is a wrong track.
 
Best Regards
 
Eva Telbrant

[Annika Malmquist]

Eva
I'm sure her name is Sigrid Hasselqvist 1958 when one of her sisters died she is mentioned in Boupptäckningen with an New York adress. If this document not is wrong and the wrong person got the money. And I have found her Ellis Islad record 1914 as Sigrid Nilsson born 1895. Her sister Amanda Nilsson born 1893 emigrated the year before 1913 and in 1958 she is dead and her son Roy Andersson is living in Tampa Florida.
The above mentioned Signe/Sigrid is not the same persson.
Annika