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Spouse(s) and children
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Anna Lisa Persdotter.
Born 7 March 1806 in Horn (E).
Died 2 October 1864 in Ählviken, Rumskulla (H).
Anna
Lisa had several daughters and her second daughter, Karolina Josefina, became Nils Johan
Nilsson's children's grandmother. Other daughters are Anna Charlotta, b.1837-12-13 in Horn,
Karolina Josefina, b.1840-05-19 in Horn, Kristina Sofia, b. 1843-09-29 in Horn. She emigrated
to USA in 1869 and her destination noted on her boat ticket was New York. Later in Amerika
she got married to Johan Peter Stenberg, who later changed his name to Boorkman. Next of
her daughters was Lovisa, b. 1845-01-15 i Södra Vi and the youngest Augusta Albertina, b.
1850-05-13 i Södra Vi. Augusta Albertina died from tuberculosis in 1833 in Södra Vi, Småland.
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Married
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Anna Charlotta Eriksdotter.
Born 13 December 1837 in Horn (E).
Anna Charlotta was born in 1837 as the eldest child of the
family of Erik Persson and Anna Lisa Persdotter. Place of birth was Horn (E). No documents
from this time are kept since a big fire at the vicarage of Ekeby 1851-01-10 destroyed all
church registers. The family eventually left Horn (E) for Södra Vi (H) in Småland. In 1855 Anna
Charlotta left home to go to Horn (E) to work as a maid. In 1856 she went to Låxbo, Södra Vi
(H) to serve at Lars Magnusson's farm. In 1857 you can find her in Rumskulla (H) working as a
maid there. In 1858 she moved to Kåreda in Södra Vi (H). She changed farm and moved to
one of the neighbouring farms in Kåreda. In 1862 you can locate her as a maid in
Vennebjörke, Södra Vi (H). Here she stayed until 1869. The same year in October she moved
to Näs in Vimmerby rural parish. The banns were published and she was married to Sven
August Karlsson 1869-12-30. He originally came from Södra Vi and was handicapped because
he was deaf. They lived at his parents, Karl Svensson and Maja Lisa Svensdotter , who had a
crofter's holding named Segelbäcken. In 1870-12-02 the first daughter was born and she
was called Maria Lovisa. In 1873-02-27 the next daughter was born and she was named Anna
Sofia. Then the big disaster occurred on the 22nd of November: the father of the family, Sven
August, drowned in a lake. Then the grandfather Karl Svensson was said to be a cottager and
Anna Charlotta a widow in the church registers. After this you can't find any traces of Anna
Charlotta and her family in the documents of the rural parish of Vimmerby (H).
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Karolina Josefina Eriksdotter.
Born 19 May 1840 in Horn (E).
Died 8 April 1910 in Södra Vi (H).
Karolina Josefina was born in Horn (E) in 1840. In 1856 when she was 16 years old, she
took a job at Norrgården in Bjerkeryd in Kisa (E). She changed to another farm in Bjerkeryd in
1857 and the next year she moved to Sörgården in Bjerkeryd and after that in 1860 she
moved to Ennebo in Kisa. In 1861 Karolina Josefina left Östergötland and took a job as a maid
in Kållemåla, Södra Vi (E). The next year she moved back to Östergötland to Tidersrum (E).
There's something special with Karolina Josefina - she always did very well at the parish
catechetical meetings and got high marks, like her mother and some of her sisters too. The
wedding between her and Magnus Vilhelm took place in the parish church 1864-10-22 and
the newly-married settled down at the cottage Spingan, which was an old soldier cottage,
belonging to a grenadier regiment. Their son Nils Johan was born on the 20th of June 1865
and his sister Anna Lovisa was born there on the 23rd of August 1867. From Spingan in
Söderhult Karolina with her family in 1868 moved to Horva in Tidersrum (E) and then the family
in 1873 moved to the farm Lindefall in Södra Vi (H). In 1910 Karolina Josefina died in Södra Vi
(H).
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Kristina Sofia Boorkman (Eriksdotter).
Born 29 September 1843 in Horn (E).
Died 27 November 1928 in Madison, Ind., USA.
Buried 1928 in Aurora, Illinois, USA.
Kristina
moved to USA in 1869-04-26. She was one of Karolina Josefina's sisters. In America she
married John Peter Boorkman, who came from Algutsboda, Småland. His name was originally
Johansson. He changed his name to Stenberg when going to America. Kristina got 6 children,
2 boys and 4 daughters. She died 1928-11-27 in Aurora, Illinois.
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Lovisa Eriksdotter.
Born 15 January 1845 in Södra Vi (H).
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Augusta Albertina Eriksdotter.
Born 13 May 1850 in Södra Vi (H).
Baptized 16 May 1850 in Södra Vi (H).
Died 3 December 1875 in Södra Vi (H).
Augusta
Albertina was Karolina Josefina Eriksdotter's sister. She was born 1850 and began working as
a maid when she was sixteen years old. She came to Bjerkeryd in Kisa (E) in 1866. Next time
she moved was to Folkinge in Kisa (E). Then she worked at many farms, such as Kristineberg
in Horn (E), Koppetorp in Frödinge (H) and Lindefall in Södra Vi (H). She came to Lindefall in
1874 where her brother-in-law Magnus Vilhelm and her sister Karolina Josefina farmed 1/3rd of
half a tax assessment unit of land. Next year, in 1875, Augusta Albertina died amongst those
dear to her, only 25 years old on the 3rd of december. My grandfather, Nils Johan, was then
only a child, 10 years old. Maybe he attended the funeral of his maternal aunt. Augusta
Albertina had a severe illness - the cause of death was tuberculosis.
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