Larsson family - Mary, Axel and Nels

[Karen Kelsey]

I am searching for my morfars family. If I do not have enough information, then I will keep looking for obituaries.  Here are the siblings who emigrated:
MARY LARSON Date of birth: 20-Feb 1864
    date of emigration:  prior to 1890
AXEL LARSON Date of birth: March 1857
    date of emigration: 1882 (or 1881)- according to the census
NELS LARSON Date of birth: Sept. 1861
    date of emigration: 1881 according to the census
The only obituary that I have found is that of Mary.  It says that she was born in Onimskåg, Sweden.  The Larson boys were farmers and they each took a farm in Benton County, MN.  Mary married and moved to Chicago, but returned to a MN farm in the 1920s.
   Does anyone recognize where Onimskåg is, or what town that might be?  Is there a possiblity to identify this Larson family?

[Cecilia Månsson]

Hi Karen,
 
Onimskåg sounds a lot like the parish of Ånimskog in Dalsland province. I suggest that you put a message under Ånimskog parish. Go to Landskap - Dalsland - Socknar - Ånimskog (at the end of the alphabet: after Z). Good luck!
 
Cecilia

[Judy Olson Baouab]

Karen,
 
Maybe this is your Mary. You need to check further. Maja is a form of Maria which could have been Americanized to Mary.
 
From the Emibas cd:
 
Post 565806
 
Larsdotter, Sara Maja
Arbeterska, piga (unmarried woman)
 
b. 2/20/1864 in Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
 
Emigrated 4/5/1883
from Måsen Lilla, Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
to Nordamerika
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 427
 
Emibas migration file ID: Ånimskog P 1883 008
 
I think that Arbeterska is a female form of arbetare, which means worker.
 
This seems to be the same person on the Emihamn database of CD Emigranten, which shows registrations with the port police before leaving Sweden.
 
First name: SARA M
Last name: LARSSON
Age: 19     Gender: K (Kvinna = woman)
Parish: ÅNIMSKOG     County: P (Älvsborg)
Port: GÖTEBORG
Date: 1883 04 13
Destination: ISHPEMING
Fellows: NEJ (Nej = no. She traveled alone on her ticket.)
Source: 22:356:19021
 
This person had the previous ticket.
 
First name: CARL JOH
Last name: LARSSON
Age: 17     Gender: M
Parish: ÅNIMSKOG     County: P
Port: GÖTEBORG
Date: 1883 04 13
Destination: ISHPEMING
Fellows: NEJ
Source: 22:356:19020
 
Judy

[Karen Kelsey]

I think that you have found the correct person.  Is there any way to look at a census and see if she had a number of brothers?  I believe that the entire family came here and settled in Minnesota.  Thanks!

[Karen Kelsey]

I found a photo of Mary Olson (maiden name = Larson), and she was with Charles Larsson.  He probably was her brother, so the Carl that she traveled with must have taken the name of Charles when he came to the U.S.

[Judy Olson Baouab]

Karen,
 
Look in the husförhörslängd (HFL)(often translated as household examination roll or clerical survey) for the parish of her birth and see who was living with her. Check before and after her birth for as many HFL as are available to find the whole family, since some may have moved out before her birth, or died before her birth. Find those on microfilm from any Family History Center or on the Genline subscription site, if it is already scanned. (They aren't finished.)
 
The Emibas lookup provides the page in the HFL where she was living when she emigrated. Work backwards from there, or work forwards from her birth record. Since she was born in 1864, look under the Sc records for Älvsborg (instead of choosing the parish name) or order the extracts of birth records found under the name of the län (county) in the Family History Library Catalog.
 
Unless the records were destroyed by fire or another disaster, you should have no problems piecing together the entire family. Swedish records are very detailed.
 
Judy

[Olle Andersson]

Karen!
 
Checking the Genline records available I have the following family information on Sara Maja:
 
Father Lars Magnus Eriksson born July 2nd 1823 Lund, Ånimskog died March 19 1875
 
Mother Kristina Eriksdotter born June 18 1823 Skållerud died Sep 19 1878
 
Siblings:
Erik Magnus 540106 (YYMMDD)
Lars Anton 551117
Alexander 571212
Nils Fredrik 600921
Sara Maja 640220
Johan 660804
Kristina Elisabeth 690717
 
Data collected from Genline GIDs:
1965.41.30300;39.51200;38.7100;36.34500
 
Regards
 
Olle

[Karen Kelsey]

Thanks so much!  I think that the Carl John that she came with was the brother listed above as simply John.  Her brother Nels was Nils Fredrik and her brother Alex was Alexander.  I will search to see if any of the others came to the U.S. too.
    I felt that the guess at the town/parish [in which she was born] was correct because the Swedish å makes a long O sound in English.  It is nice to know about her, since I all I have inherited was a box of photos with some identifications on the back.

[Judy Olson Baouab]

Karen,
 
More from Emibas:
 
Post 565805
 
Larsson, Johan
Dräng (unmarried man)
 
b. 8/4/1866 in Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
 
Emigrated 4/5/1883
from Bollsbyn, Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
to Nordamerika
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 332
 
Emibas migration file ID: Ånimskog P 1883 007
 
Dräng = farmhand.
 
Post 565779
 
Larsson, Nils Fredrik
Arbetare (unmarried man)
 
b. 9/21/1860 in Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
 
Emigrated 3/14/1882
from Slobol, Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
to Nordamerika
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 224
 
Emibas migration file ID: Ånimskog P 1882 009
 
Arbetare = worker.
 
Post 565781
 
Larsson, Erik Magnus
Arbetare (unmarried man)
 
b. 1/6/1854 in Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
 
Emigrated 3/19/1882
from Slobol, Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
to Nordamerika
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 225
 
Emibas migration file ID: Ånimskog P 1882 011
 
Post 565778
 
Larsson, Lars Anton
Arbetare (unmarried man)
 
b. 11/17/1855 in Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
 
Emigrated 3/14/1882
from Slobol, Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
to Nordamerika
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 225
 
Emibas migration file ID: Ånimskog P 1882 008
 
Post 22708
 
Larsson, Alexander
Dräng (unmarried man)
 
b. 12/12/1857 in Ånimskog, Älvsborgs län (Dalsland)
 
Emigrated 3/4/1881
from Uddby Kvarn, Tyresö, Stockholms län (Södermanland)
to Nordamerika
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 141
 
Emibas migration file ID: Tyresö B 1881 001
 
Judy

[Judy Olson Baouab]

From the Emihamn database of CD Emigranten:
 
First name: N F
Last name: LARSSON
Age: 21     Gender: M
Parish: ÅNIMSKOG     County: P
Port: GÖTEBORG
Date: 1882 03 31
Destination: ISHPEMING
Fellows: NEJ
Source: 19:348:14871
 
First name: E M
Last name: LARSON
Age: 27     Gender: M
Parish: ÅNIMSKOG     County: P
Port: GÖTEBORG
Date: 1881 04 05
Destination: NEW YORK
Fellows: NEJ
Source: 17:179:12917
 
 
Judy

[Karen Kelsey]

Thank you so much, Judy!  I will call one of the Larson descendents and take her to lunch tomorrow.  She will be thrilled with all of the information that I have learned from this site, and she can help me to identify the photos that I have inherited.  Everyone has been so helpful with this search!

[Karen Kelsey]

Thanks so much!  The information I have gotten has filled in many of the gaps in our knowledge of the family, and we can now search for the other Larsson emigrants who came to the U.S.

[Karen Kelsey]

Does anyone have ideas about how to find one of the Larsson emigrants who came to the U.S?  I need a little help here.  I have found all of the brothers except one: Erik Magnus Larsson, born 6-Jan. 1854 in Ånimskog (Dalsland), and emigrated 19-March 1882.  I do not have access to Ancestry, so maybe that would help in my search?  I discovered that an E. M. Larson filed his first papers for naturalization in Marquette County, MI (Ishpeming), but did not receive citizenship in that county.  I have searched the 1900, 1910, and 1920 censuses, and filtered the search by age and ethnicity in HeritageQuest.  Eric Magnus' brothers also filed for citizenship in that county, and then moved on.  I have tried to locate an on-line MI death index, but can't find one.  Any ideas??