I would really need some help with one of the hardest to solve brick walls in my research! I just found this site and it seems to be full of nice helfpul people so I can't resist taking the chance to beg for help!
The person alluding me is my maternal grandmother's aunt, Elvira Cecilia Lovisa Engström, born September 15th 1879 in Mönsterås, Småland, Sweden. Here she is on my website (only in Swedish, though, sorry) where information about her family might be found: http://genealogy.maritha.net76.net/g...3&tree=maritha
(I have asked for help on another online forum but got no response whatsoever there. The text below is mostly cut-and-pasted from that place.)
Up until 1896 she lived in Mönsterås; May 8 she left Sweden to go to Chicago in America, then stopped briefly in England, left from Liverpool on board the ship Campania and arrived April 18 at Ellis Island. (For some reason their transcription says she's English, which she's obviously not.) Her last name was probably spelled Engstrom or Engstroem in the USA.
I know next to nothing about her whereabouts after that. She was headed to Chicago - did she end up there? Granny told me that Elvira eventually married a man with the surname Karlsson (Carlsson/Carlson) and that they has three children (all daughters?), of which one daughter at some point came to Sweden and visited her relatives there. Granny couldn't remember any of their names, sadly.
I have found one possible match in the 1930 Census, but I do not dare to take it for a fact. Here's her post from the census:
Elvira Carlson
Födelse: Ungefär 1880
Hemvist: 1930
Chicago City, Cook, Illinois, USA
Folkräkningsregister:
År: 1930
Rulle: 0481
Delstat: Illinois
Län: Cook
Kommun: Chicago City
Folkräkningsdistrikt (FD): 16-1511
Sida: 5a
Familj nr: 85
Hushåll
Namn Ålder
Elvira Carlson 9
Gustaf A Carlson 26
Morris Carlson 16
Roy Carlson 14
Elvira Carlson 50
Innar Carlson 6
Swea Carlson 18
Adolph Carlson 50
Arthur Carlson 12
I would deeply appreciate any help on her life and descendants! I have very limited experience of research in the US since I have remarkably few relatives that I know emigrated. Perhaps someone with access to Ancestry's databases might be able to help?
Thank you,
Maritha
The person alluding me is my maternal grandmother's aunt, Elvira Cecilia Lovisa Engström, born September 15th 1879 in Mönsterås, Småland, Sweden. Here she is on my website (only in Swedish, though, sorry) where information about her family might be found: http://genealogy.maritha.net76.net/g...3&tree=maritha
(I have asked for help on another online forum but got no response whatsoever there. The text below is mostly cut-and-pasted from that place.)
Up until 1896 she lived in Mönsterås; May 8 she left Sweden to go to Chicago in America, then stopped briefly in England, left from Liverpool on board the ship Campania and arrived April 18 at Ellis Island. (For some reason their transcription says she's English, which she's obviously not.) Her last name was probably spelled Engstrom or Engstroem in the USA.
I know next to nothing about her whereabouts after that. She was headed to Chicago - did she end up there? Granny told me that Elvira eventually married a man with the surname Karlsson (Carlsson/Carlson) and that they has three children (all daughters?), of which one daughter at some point came to Sweden and visited her relatives there. Granny couldn't remember any of their names, sadly.
I have found one possible match in the 1930 Census, but I do not dare to take it for a fact. Here's her post from the census:
Elvira Carlson
Födelse: Ungefär 1880
Hemvist: 1930
Chicago City, Cook, Illinois, USA
Folkräkningsregister:
År: 1930
Rulle: 0481
Delstat: Illinois
Län: Cook
Kommun: Chicago City
Folkräkningsdistrikt (FD): 16-1511
Sida: 5a
Familj nr: 85
Hushåll
Namn Ålder
Elvira Carlson 9
Gustaf A Carlson 26
Morris Carlson 16
Roy Carlson 14
Elvira Carlson 50
Innar Carlson 6
Swea Carlson 18
Adolph Carlson 50
Arthur Carlson 12
I would deeply appreciate any help on her life and descendants! I have very limited experience of research in the US since I have remarkably few relatives that I know emigrated. Perhaps someone with access to Ancestry's databases might be able to help?
Thank you,
Maritha
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