Karl Fredr. Spångberg, Skärhyttan?, Nora, Örebro f. 1844

[Michael Swanson]

All:
 
I just trimmed a speculative branch from my tree and am starting again from a known ancestor.  I have been using several free databases but I have made no high confidence progress in finding the father of Karl Fredr. Spångberg f. 1844.  Any help would be appreciated. Karl Fredrik Spångberg and his family moved to America (Newberry Michigan) between 1892 ansd finally Karl in 1906 to live with his in-law, Michael Swanson (Mickel Sven of Finland).  Karl is the grandfather of August Spångberg (1893-1987), member of the Swedish Parliament, awarded the Norwegian Order of St. Olav, and and author of Rådmannen: En historia om ett brott.
 
Michael Swanson
Franklin, TN  
Email: swanson.michael@ieee.org
 
From Arkion 1890:
http://www.arkion.se
Homeparish: Nora lands
Residence: Skärhyttan.
County: Örebro
SVARvolume: 000335  Card nr: 12
Page: 73  Row: 43
Persons in the household
Fam nr: 1
Karl Fredr. Spångberg f. 1844 in Nora Lands, torpare
wife Krist:a Elis:t (Kristina Elisabet) Bark?n f. 1845 in Nora Lands
d. Anna Lov:a (Lovisa) f. 1870 in Nora Lands
d. Klara Fredr:a (Fredrika)  f. 1876 in Nora Lands
s. Osk. (Oskar) Fredrik f. 1878 in Nora Lands
d. Alma Maria f. 1882 in Nora Lands
d. Hilma Leont:a f. 1884 in Nora Lands
d. Jenny Elis:t (Elisabet) f. 1886 in Nora Lands

[Elisabeth Thorsell]

According to the records, Karl Fredrik Spångberg emigrated in 1906 March 10 from Skärhyttan in the company of his daughter Jenny Elisabeth.
 
Karl Fredrik was born 1844 Feb.19 in Nora.

[Marie Esplund-Lynn]

Hello Michael!
Karl Fredrik Spångberg was born 19 february 1844 in Skärshyttan, Nora landsförsamling (The country area ouside of Nora city). His fathers name was Jan Ersson Spångberg and the mother was his wife Maja Lena Persdotter, 33 years old.
(Nora parish, C:9B)
 
The Spångberg family emigrated one by one:
Klara Fredrika left 1892-05-16, 16 years old.
Alma Maria & Hilma Leontina left 1899-08-05, 17 & 15 years old.
Father (widower)Karl Fredrik & Jenny Elisabet, 20 years old, left 1906-03-10.
 
Did the family end up together in Amerika? Wich daughter was married to Michael Swansson? What happend to the family?
 
I hope you will answer my questions.
From
Marie

[Michael Swanson]

Thank you for the reply!  It helps a great deal because all we had were some notes handed down.  You confirm what the notes indicate (which we doubted and were not legible).  
 
If the notes are correct, I think Jan Ersson Spångberg's father is Erik Carlson b 6 Mar 1776 Grythyttan and d 1 Apr 1829 Newberry, Michigan USA.  His mother is Chatrina Jonsdotter b 8 Jul 1776.  
 
We do not know Erik Carlson's parents.  It has been a family mystery, aad he was the person who came to Newberry Michigan first and everyone else followed.  I hope his ancestry is not lost.
 
Chatrina Jonsdotter is the daughter of Bonden Jonas Jonsson b 1745 Karlskoga, Örebro and Stina Jansdotter b. 1747 Kroppa.  That is a far as we got in that line.
 
The family ended up in Michigan (Upper Pn. McMillan and Newberry).  I have a picture of the whole family in Newberry, including Karl before he died.  Michael Swanson (aka Mikel Svens of Finland) a railroad construction forman married Klara Spanberg (1876-1946), who was a midwife.
 
His children all stayed in Michigan and became drs and dentists.
 
I Michael Swanson's Great grandson.
 
I hope you can find Erik Carlson's parents....
 
Thanks,
 
Michael Swanson

[Marie Esplund-Lynn]

Hello again Michael!
As I wrote before Karl Fredrik was born in Skärshyttan, so I checked Nora parish again. In the household invertory A1:14b 1841-1850 (page 195). I found the family:
Spångberg, Jan Ersson b 1808 1571 Grythyttan parish
wife Maria Helena Persdotter b 1811 5/2 Nora parish (married 1830 26/12)
children:
(hers) Maja Stina 1827 17/11 Nora parish
(theirs)
Jan Gustaf  1832 17/11 Nora parish
Eric August 1836 19/5 Nora parish
Pehr Axel   1839 9/5 Nora parish
Carolina    1841 2/11 Nora parish
Carl Fredrik 1844 19/2 Nora parish
Anders Albert 1847 8/8 Nora parish
 
With the family lives also:
father-in-law Petter Jacobsson 1780 18/2 Nora parish
mother-in-law Stina Jacobsdotter 1774.
 
I also checked Grythyttans parish:
Bith book C:7 1797-1817
1808 (as child nr 2)  
born 14 og january
baptized 17 of january
Name JAN
Parents: Erik Nilsson and mother Catrina Jonsdotter at Loka. Born in marriage.
 
In the household inventory för the same period I couldn?t fins the family.
 
I hope somebody else can find them for you.

[Håkan Blomqvist]

This was an interesting site for me. I am a Swedish historian specialised in the history of the labour movement. I am currently writing some biographical notes about August Spångberg, the communist and later social democratic member of parliament and the grandson of Karl Fredrik Spångberg. In the auto biography of August Spångberg (1893-1987) I tidens ström (1966) he writes about his childhood together with his grandfather in the small cottage deep in the forests of Nora. In Swedish the first lines of the biography is almost like natural poetry:
Djupt inne i skogen, en bra bit från landsvägen, mellan Rockesholm och Stadra herrgård, låg det lilla skogstorpet Lämtjärnsfallet med sina små åkerlappar (In the depth of the forest, far from the road, between Rockesholm and the mansion of Stadra, lay the small forestcottage of Lämtjärnsfallet with its small patches of arable land.
It seems that it was not until 1898 Karl Fredrik moved to the small village of nearby Skärhyttan (with only four cottages) - but perhaps you know all of this. In 1955, when August Spångberg and his wife Sofia went to America they seem to have met with all the Swansons and Ericsons in Michigan (and Newberry where August visited the grave of Karl Fredrik - as you probably know he writes about his trip and about Newberry, Jenny and Alfred Ericksson and the fishing tour at the lake Round with the cousin Albin Swanson).
 
As a kid August Spångberg, according to his biography, helped his grandfather Karl Fredrik in the forest as a charcoal-burner. When the only horse in the family died in an accident they had to leave their forestcottage and move to Skärhyttan. To avoid ending up at the poor-house Karl Fredrik moved together with his youngest daughter Jenny to relatives in America. August was to be put in a foster home but could after some time unite with his mother Anna Lovisa and her husband Anders Olsson (August's father August Carlsson) emigrated to America shortly after his son's birth in 1893). August grew up helping his stepfather as a stone worker, then he worked in the forest, built roads, was a metal worker and finally got a job at the rail road in Charlottenberg in the landscape of Värmland close to the Norwegian boarder. As very young he got in contact with the temperance movement and the socialist youth movement (he experienced his first First of May demonstration in the city of Falun only 14 years old). And he became one of the pioneers in building the social democratic labour movement i Värmland, including the cooperative movement and the rail way union. In the split in the labour movement in 1917 he followed the left wing which came to support the Bolshevik revolution and joined the Communist International - Comintern. It was as a leader of the communist children's organisation in Charlottenberg he met Sofia, his becoming wife. During the 20's and the 30's August Spångberg was one of the leading Swedish communists - in 1922 he was one of the first five communists elected to the Swedish parliament - and the parliament's youngest member until then. Together with the majority of Swedish communists Spångberg was expelled from Comintern in 1929 and upheld an independent communist party - critical of Stalin and the oppression in Soviet Russia - until 1937 when the party fell apart and many, including Spångberg, returned to the Social Democracy. August Spångberg kept his seat in parliament as a social democrat through numerous elections until 1964 when he, 71 years old, retired.
 
His life embodies much of the History of the Swedish working class from the very poor circumstances in the beginning of the 20ths century, through the hard and sometimes violent class struggles of the 20's to the beginning of the so called people's home in the 30's and the building of the well fare state after the war.
 
In my lectures on Swedish 20th century history I often use a biographical perspective. Next year I hope to make the autobiography of August Spångberg a material for reflection by the students, when we discuss the century.  
 
Håkan Blomqvist
Stockholm