Distant relatives of Gerda Hanson
who live in the United States
have been
FOUND !!!!!!!!!
From Carolyn:
For many years, I have tried to find distant
relatives of Carl and Gerda who live in the United States. Recently, with help from Sharon Nuttal,
granddaughter of Aunt Gerda, I was in contact with Jeanette R. Little from
Aiken, South Carolina. She sent me the
following information and gave me permission to post this on the blog.
From: Jeanette
INFORMATION:
CARL JOHAN HANSON (father of
Gerda) and sister HEDDA LENA HANSDOTTER
"Its very nice to hear from you. I
am quite confident that my husband, Bart Little is distantly related
to you.
He is a descendant of Hedda Lena Hansdotter,
who had a brother, Carl Johan Hanson...who by our records is the father of
Gerda Hanson.
We don't have any specific information about
Gerda or her family line on down, but we have done a deep dive into the Swedish
records about Hedda Lena Hansdotter and her brother, and we are working our way
back through the old church records.
Here is a general recap of what we know.
Hans Persson (1802 - 1863) married Anna
Stina Benghtsdotter (1812- 1852) in 1837 in a church known as Tryserum Parrish,
Valdemarsvik Municipality, Kalmar Län, Sweden.
They had a total of 5 children:
Anna Lotta Hansdotter (1839-1885)
Hedda Lena Hansdotter (1842-1910)
Carl Johan Hansson (1845 - 1898)
Anders Peters Hansson (1849-1850)
Christina Mathilda Hansdotter (1851-1851)
As you can see from the dates, the two
youngest children did not survive to adulthood, and the mother, Anna Stina died
around the same timeframe as the youngest two children.
For many years, the family lived on a farm
named Käggla, we strongly suspect they rented the farm rather than being
landowners.
As a widower, Hans Persson kept his children
with him until they were adults, his daughters Anna Lotta and Hedda Lena moved
to nearby farms to work after age 17. He continued to live with his
son, Carl Johan until his death when Carl Johan Hansson was 18 or 19 years old.
The three children took different paths once
their parents had passed away....the oldest child, Anna Lotta had three
children, but didn't marry until she was over 40 years old. I don't have
a great deal of information about her three children, she had a son Karl, and
two daughters Anna and Hulda. The records seem to indicate that one of
the daughters, Anna immigrated to Canada in 1892...but we are missing
significant pieces to that story.
The middle child, Hedda Lena, married Nils
Martin Magnusson in 1864 at age 21 and they lived in the same area as her
father until 1882 when the whole family immigrated to a Swedish
settlement in Stanton Iowa. They had four children, three of whom were
born in Sweden: Carl Johan, Anna, Sven, and Gus. The entire family
changed their surname to Lundquist when they immigrated to the United
States. Hedda and Nils Lundquist are buried in Stanton, Iowa, but the
grave is unmarked. Their oldest son Carl Johan Lundquist married a
Swedish immigrant and had 10 children. Anna married and had one daughter
before her passing as a young adult. Sven did not survive to adulthood,
and Gus had 4 children.
The youngest child, Carl Johnan Hansson,
married twice. His first wife was Carolina Carlotta Andersdotter, and we
suspect his second wife was her sister, Wilhemina Andersdotter. Our
records show they had three children, Anna - who died as a infant, Gerda and a
son, Carl Allen. The family moved to the Stockholm area in the 1890s -
and that's where the access to the church records ends for us. We suspect
that Carl Allen remained in Sweden as he appears in a Swedish death index, but
it doesn't tell us when he died or if he ever married."
From Carolyn:
As I learn more from this family - I will include it on the blog.
