Rose-Marie,
Wester is not an unique family name in Sweden - several not related families use and have used this surname. Today 2220 persons in Sweden use the name Wester as their surname, according to the webpage of Statistics Sweden.
This Wester family, that your great-grandmother Axelina was a member of, has been publiched several times in Swedish genealogical reference books:
[Viktor Örnberg], Svensk Slägtkalender 1886, p. 312-316;
[Viktor Örnberg]: Svenska Ättartal 1892, p. 485-497;
Karl A. K:son Leijonhufvud: Ny svensk släktbok, 1906, p. 221-232;
Svenska Släktkalendern, volumes 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919, 1936, 1950.
This family doesn't belong to the nobility, but several members of the family married members of Swedish noblefamilies. The parents of Axelina was the warden of a prison in Gothenburg, captain Sven Adolf Victor Wester (1828-1911) and Carolina Charlotta (Lotten) Zachau (1822-1904)(about the Zachau family, see Svenska Ättartal 1893, p. 501-509). Victor Wester's grandfather the county treasurer in Värmland county Lars Magnus Wester (1754-1801) was married to Maria Magdalena (Maja) Uggla (1750-1826), the daughter of the nobleman Georg Gustaf Uggla, (Swedish noblefamily n:o 100). According to Viktor Örnberg, Svenska Ättartal 1892, p. 486-487, Maja Uggla was a decendant to the Swedish king Karl Knutsson (Bonde) (1409-1470).
Your great-grandmother Axelina had three brothers:
- Victor Herman Axel Wilhelm Wester (1861- ), stockbroker, Mariestad, who was unmarried.
- Carl Victor Louis Wester (1862-1939), part owner in wholesale firm Berner&Nielsen in London, married 1st 1885 (divorced) to Maria Elisabeth Charlotta Lillehöök af Gälared och Kolbäck (noblefamily n:o 66) (1858-1932), and married 2nd 1915 to countess Catharina Emilia Charlotta Ottiliana (Carin) Cronhielm af Hakunge (1886- ) (count's family n:o 69). In the two marriages he got 5 children (Alice, Percy, Daisy, Violet, Dollie).
- Sven Adolf Victorsson Wester (1865-), engineer in Bristol, CT, USA. Married 1906 to Ulrika Josefina (Riken) Larson (1873-). One daughter Charlotte (1907-) married 1929 to Carl Borg, engineer in Bristol, CT.