Category: Maja Christina
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Signe Emilia, prison warden
Ada Hedberg’s oldest child was her daughter Signe Emilia. Signe was born on July 13, 1878. Her parents had married the same year, at 23 and 24 years old. Ada’s husband worked for the railroad in Falköping, and when Signe was born they lived in the railway station. The family moved to Göteborg in 1883. On…
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Letchworth village, Thiells, NY.
On Sept. 15, 1915, Alice M. Boov married William N. Kemp in Spring Valley, Rockland Co., NY. Alice used her mother’s maiden name for the records, and her parents are listed as Ada Hedberg and Alfred F. Boov. William is a ‘laborer’, and Alice’s is ‘doing housework’. They live in Thiells, NY. It’s a first marriage…
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Alice Maria Bååv
Alice Maria Bååv, Ada’s daughter, Cintra’s older sister, and my grandfather’s first cousin, left Göteborg for Hull on the S/S Runo on March 17, 1913. From Hull she took the train to Liverpool, and then she left for New York from there. Alice arrived in Ellis Island on March 30, 1913 onboard the Celtic of Liverpool.…
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