Christine Persdotter Lundquist

First name: Kerstin

Emigration date: 1886-08-15

Last name: Persdotter Andersson Lundqvist

Emigration county: Värmland

Birth date: 1855-01-12 Emigration parish: Gräsmark

Farm anme (eg. Bäcke-Nils): Emigration location: Timbonäs

Birth county: Värmland Destination place:

Birth parish: Gräsmark Destination country: N. Amerika

Birth place: Country code:

Birth location (Outside Sweden): Alone/Family (E/F): F

Birth country (Outside Sweden): File nr: 35

Profession: Hustru Source:

Age: 31 Page in household examination book: 441

Sex: K Nr in emigration book: 61

Civil status: G

Based on the information you have supplied, we have found certain details in the church records at Varmland Archives.

Page 440 in the 1886-92 household survey records from Mansackbacken/Timbonas farm in Grasmark lists the following people:

Per Elofsson, born September 16. 1815 in Gumiarskog. Recorded as leaving

Grasmark on May 17, 1892 for emigration to North America. (File no. 108)

His wife, Maria Eriksdotter, born August 7,1820 in Grasmark, died May 18,

1891.

Their granddaughter {daughter's daughter) Maria Stina Gtistafsdotter, born

November 30, 1879 in Grasmark. Recorded as leaving Grasmark on May 20,

1892 for emigration to North America. (File no. Ill)

Presumably, Per and his granddaughter made the ocean crossing together; other records not in our archives should be able to confirm this.

Page 441 in the same 1886-92 household survey records from Mansackbacken/Timbonas i'urm in Grasmark lists the additional family members:

Johan Andersson, bora January 21, 1863 in Grasmark. (File no. 34) His wife Kerstin (note: not listed as Christina) Persdouer, born on January 12, 1855 in Grasmark, married to Johan on April 6, 1885. (File no. 35) Kerstin's two children from previous relationships:

Son, Magnus Jonasson, born December 10, 1876 in Grasmark. (File no. 36)

Daughter, Maria Stina Gustafsdotter (same as above on p. 440)

Johan's and Kerstin's son:

Johan Fritiof, born November 25, 1885 in Grasmark (File no. 37)

Johan, Kerstin, Magnus and Johan Fritiof were recorded as leaving Grasmark on August 15, 1886 for emigration to North America.

Sources: Grasmark parish church archives 1886-92, AI:29, pp. 440, 441; Database EmiWeb: www.emiweb.se

No records were found for any Rudolph Lundquist (Anderson) born in 1886, nor does the name Lundquist appear in the church records in our archives. But additional information might be found in the emigration records and/or ship passenger lists kept by the Sweden America Center in Karlstad, a neighboring archive institution specializing in the emigration to North America. The designation "File no." listed above refers to emigration files also found at the Sweden America Center. For further information on services and research fees, contact the Center at info@,swedenamerica.se or visit their website at www.swedenamerica.se

The information with which we have provided you is from two sources. Should you wish for additional research performed at Varmland Archives there is a fee of 125 SEK charged for each fifteen minutes of research begun, regardless of the results.

JOHN AND CHRISTINE LUNDQUIST Deer Township

John and Christine Lundquist came with their three children, Magnus, Christine and Fred, from Sweden to the United States. Their first home in America was in Dodge county, Minnesota. Here the other children were born. They include Richard, Lottie, Emil, Edd, and Robert.

In 1900, when John was thirty-nine years old, the family moved to Deer township, where John had filed a homestead claim a year earlier. The family remained on this homestead for seventy years.

The children and grandchildren include: Magnus who had ten children, Clifford, Martin, Luella, Oscar, Reuben, Milton, Kenneth, Ruth, Eunice and Donald. Christine had two sons, Clifford and Conrad; Fred; Richard, who had two daughters, Nadine and Lila; Lottie whose two sons are Rudolph and Ralph; Edd (who served in France in World War I); and Robert whose one daughter and four sons are Mabel, Morris, Willard, Floyd and James.

The Lundquists were members of the Lutheran church.

Roseau Co. Historical Society and Warroad Bi-Centennial Committee, Pioneers! O Pioneers, Book 1 - Early Settlers of 1895-1910, pp. 202-03, . Source Media Type: Book, 164.