Category: Oskarshamn
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You be the judge
To the left, Maja Christina’s grandson Jack Trommer, born in Iowa in 1904. To the right, Johanna’s great grandson Gösta Kratz, born in Stockholm in 1914.
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Anders Svensson Hedberg
Anders Hedberg, laborer, died in Falköping on Sept. 21, 1875. He was 64. The estimated total value of his belongings was 90 kronor, around $10. The estate inventory states that his daughter Maria Christina’s whereabouts were “unknown”. From the bird’s eye view of the internet, we know that Christina and her family had emigrated in…
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Johanna
The first time Johanna moved away from her family to work was in 1862. She was 18 years old. She moved to Slättäng, in Sandhem southeast of Falköping. Two roads met in Slättäng and there had been a local court and an inn there for a long time. It seems Johanna was a maid at…
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