Karl Johan Herman LUNDBERG

Notes:

Arrived with his parents and younger sisters in Boston in 1896.

He may be the Charles Johnson who was living with Oscar and Tillie in Superior in the 1900 census.

In the 1899 city directory for Superior, Charles Johnson, laborer, lived at 1205 N 3d, the address of Oscar Johnson. That Charles is still at the same address in the 1900 city directory. In the 1901 city directory, when Oscar lives at 510-1/2 Bay, there is a Carl Johnson, who also works at the St P & W Coal Co., who lives at 500 Bay.

There is a death record for a Charles Johnson, a single man who died 31 Aug 1900 in Douglas County, Wisconsin. That Charles was 23 when he died and was born in Sweden in 1877. His father was listed as August Sandberg. This Charles Johnson was buried in Pine City, Minnesota, according to that same death record in the “Wisconsin Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968.”

If we believe the 1910 census entry for Albertina, in which she is shown to have had 6 children, 4 still living, then either Emma or Karl Johan, but not both, were dead by 1910. That would be consistent with the death of Karl Johan, as Charles Johnson, in August of 1900.

The Charles Johnson who died in Superior on 31 August 1900 died of typhoid fever.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 Jun 1852, Torup, Hallands län, Sweden

Notes:

Had 6 kids. Also emigrated to North America.

According to the parish register of Långaryd, 1881-1890, Johan August was 1/24 part owner of Gässlingabo farm. They had moved to Långaryd from Torup in 1881. Johan was found guilty of theft in 1882.

There is also a record of Johan August as half owner of Segelsbo farm in Långaryd. The family (less Emma, who emigrated in April of 1889) moved to Södra Hestra parish on October 7, 1890. There is a suggestion that Johan August was found guilty of theft again on March 5th of some year.

In the 1890 Swedish census, according to one of Terry’s researchers, the family was living in Kindhult, Södra Hestra parish, Jönköping län. Terry believes that Johan August owned the Kindhult farm.

The Södra Hestra Household Examination for 1891-1897 shows the family living on Kindhult Södra until October of 1894 at which point they moved to Spjuthult Nestra, still in Södra Hestra. They (Gus, Albertina, Karl Johan, Laurentia, and Mathilda Charlotta) emigrated to North Amerika in 1896.

Johan August Lundberg, född 1852-06-08 i Rydö, Torup N. Hemmansägare
i Sandshult, Torup N. Långaryd N 1882-?. (f).

The 1867-1876 Torup Household Examination shows that Johan August left for Transhult in 1875.

Johan August, age 44, his wife Albertina, 45, and their three youngest children, Carl, 19, Laurentia, 17, and Matilda, 14, arrived in the U. S. in the port of Boston, on May 17, 1896, on the S.S. Cephalonia. This ship had departed from Liverpool on May 7th. The Lundbergs’ last residence is shown as S Hestra, Sweden. The ship’s manifest lists their son, Carl O. of Boston, and their daughter, Emma Miller of Boston, as relatives already in the U. S. who will be meeting the immigrants. Emma’s address is shown as 129 Telestron Street, Boston. The family is noted as having arrived with the sum of $650.

There is a reference to a Johan August Lundberg being a member of the Norden Society in Minneapolis in the period 1903-1906.

In the 1905 Minnesota state census, August and “Mrs. Albertine” Lundberg, ages 53 and 54, respectively, are living by themselves on a farm in New London Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, where they had been for 2 years. This census also shows that they had been in Minnesota for 7 years.

In the 1910 census, August and Albertina are living in Union Grove Township, Meeker County, Minnesota with an 11 year-old adopted son named Antone Anderson who was born in Minnesota. The census form says that the couple had been married for 38 years and that Albertina had had 6 children, 4 still living. The census erroneously lists their arrival date in the U. S. as 1866 instead of 1896.

In the 1916 Canadian census, August, Albertine, and Anton live in Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Also in the household were their daughter Emma Griffin and her husband William.

Terry says: JOHAN AUGUST LUNDBERG also came to Canada {apparently Winnipeg}. I do not know what name Johan August Lundberg used in the USA but I suspect it was CARLSON or Johnson . I only have border crossing records for him visiting his daughters in Orr, St. Louis County, Minnesota and the other daughter in the Boston, Mass. area named Elsie MacFarlane. I have a complete residential addresses for the daughter in Boston but I have not been able to check any further yet on her.

The border crossing records show two crossings for August Lundberg. On June 19, 1923, he crossed at Ranier, Minnesota. He was a farmer from Watson, Saskatchewan, and he gave as his nearest relative his son Oscar Lundberg of Watson. August’s destination is Boston, Massachusetts, where he intends to visit his daughter, Elsie MacFarland of 22 Edgerton Road. He intends to remain in the U.S. for 5 months. He is described as 6 feet tall, of medium complexion, with gray hair and brown eyes. He gives as his place of birth “Heaplopsocher, Sweden.” August claimed to have been in the U.S. from 1896 to May of 1906.

The other border crossing is for John August Lundberg, a farmer of Watson, Saskatchewan, who is leaving Canada at the port of Winnipeg in September of 1919 with his destination Orr, Minnesota. He still claims to be a Swedish citizen.

Terry says: Johan August Lundberg came to Saskatchewan, Canada and takes out a homestead and in his records he claims to be a USA citizen (?). I also found him again travelling to the USA in the American Border records claiming to be Canadian and going to visit another daughter in Orr, St. Louis County, Minnesota.

As Terry points out, the John Lundberg living next door to Charlie and Ida in the 1911 census may be Gus.

An old news clipping given to Jan by Rose shows that Gus sold his farm land, and, presumably, moved into town in 1919.

Terry also says: One relative remembers a relative named "Gus” who died upstairs above their cafe in Naicam, Sask., and who was rooming there. {This is the cafe Oscar and Tilley owned.} He said he was a relative and was very old. In the Lutheran Church records in Naicam they have named Charley Lundberg as dying there but Charley actually died in the City of Nelson, years later, so I assume it was Johan August Lundberg who died above the Naicam cafe located across the street from the train station.

A couple of the locals remember Gus’s house burning down in 1927 which may be the reason that he ended up living above the cafe.

Jan found a border-crossing record for Gus visiting his daughter Mrs. Charles Okman in April of 1928. At that time, Gus was living in Naicam and was expected to spend six months in “Salmon”, Oregon.

Johan married Albertina Josefina Wilhelmina ROSENGREN on 28 Dec 1874 in Drangsered, Hallands län, Sweden. Albertina (daughter of Johan Fredrik ROSENGREN and Fredrika Wilhelmina HOLM) was born on 28 Oct 1851 in Dagsås, Hallands län, Sweden; died on 16 Apr 1919 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Naicam, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Jan’s source in Sweden: You asked about the parents of Josefina Albertina but that is impossible to find. She was born in 1851 but in the birth record in Dagsås where she was born is she not. I found a Josefina Albertina in 1853 but that is not sure it's correct. In the census 1890 is she born in 1851.

Lundberg, Johan August
1852 Far
Rosengren, Albertina Josefina Wilhelmina 1851 Mor
(Barn), Karl Oskar 1873 Barn
(Barn), Karl Johan Herman 1876 Barn
(Barn), Laurentia 1879 Barn
(Barn), Mathilda Charlotta 1882 Barn"

So he did not leave Sweden at least until after 1890 census anyway.

Birth:
or 29 Oct (Diana) or 9 Oct (Albertina’s gravestone)

Died:
Other sources sat 16 April 1916. She is still alive in the 1916 Canadian census taken June 22-23 in her area. Her gravestone says 16 April 1919. Her death is not listed in the Saskatchewan Death Index which extends through 1916.

Notes:

Married:
date and place from a source on Anbytarforum

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: “Rag man”, coppersmith

Notes:

According to Carl Johan, Johan was called Johan i Ryd because of where he lived (Rydöbruk). Carl Johan also says that he was Johan Martin in his birth record.

Carl Johan and Jan have found information suggesting that Karl Olaf Wigren, a sailor, may have been the biological father of Johan Mårten. In the birth records for Johan Mårten, he is shown as the illegitimate son of Elin Strömgren, no father listed. However, in the household examination for the fortress of Varberg and Karlsborg, Anders is stated as Johan’s father.

From Diana’s research:

Before he went to Torup, Halland, Johan was a millitary man in Karlsborg with the number 25. There he called himself Johan Mårten Persson Lundberg. Before he moved to Karlsborg he lived in Mariestad. He moved from Mariestad to Karlsborg in 1835. He and Maria Elisabet Lind married 12 Jan 1840 in Karlsborg. Maria Elisabet moved from Undernäs to Karlsborg in 1839.

Johan is referred to as Arb. No. 25 M. Persson in the record for his marriage.

He and Maja and his first son are listed in a clerical survey in Karlsborg. By the 1840s the family is in Rydö.

The census image for Johan in the late 1860s and very early 1870s seems to say April 1st. The May 3rd birth date is confirmed in another census or church record that Jan has received from a contact in Sweden.

At the time of a census in the late 1860s and very early 1870s, the family consisted of the parents plus Johan Alfred, Carl Oscar, Carl Gustaf, Johan August, Leander, and Vilhelm (Wilhelm) born in 1864.

Rydö is a place in Torup in Halland. There is or was a paper mill there too. Johan Lundberg worked as a rag-man and sold rag to the paper mill.

From Roger’s research:

Johan! Lundberg, född 1817-05-03, död 1872-04-22 i Torup N.
Lumpsamlare i Rydö Pappersbruk 1842-1856, Torup N. (hfl)..
Kom 1842 ifrån Barnarp F.
Ej född i Jönköpng Kristina F eller Jönköping Sofia F 1817.
Adress Barnarp F (Ej på socknen P.219-221 1840-1845, men har ej
kollat hela hfl, ingen flyttbok) ?-1842,
Torup N Rydö Pappersbruk Lumpsamlare 1842-1856,
Torup N Härhult 1856-1860, Torup N Gohult 1860-1861,
Torup N Övregårds ägor 1861-1872.

Gift med
Maria Elisabet Lind, född 1816-11-07 i Östra Grängshyttan Pilabo,
Hjulsjö T, död 1887-07-16 i Torup N. Bosatt i Rydö Pappersbruk 1842-1856,
Torup N. (f,hfl).
Döpt samma dag, Äkta dottern kallad Maja Lisa i födelsebok,
Föräldrar Glashandlare Christoffer Lind o. h. Eva Sofia Vennerberg
i Grängshyttan. Adress Hova R ?-1838, Undenäs R 1838-?

Barn:
Johan Vilhelm Lundberg, född 1839-08-14 i Berget, Hova R. (f).
+ Karl Johan Lundberg, född 1841-11-11, död 1843-05-03 i Varberg N.
(hfl).
Emelie Vilhelmina Lundberg, född 1843-10-20 i Rydö, Torup N.
(f,hfl). E1881.. Amerika 188100516-? (?0510).
Adress Torup N ?-18670520,
Annerstad sn Socknens Slut P.359 piga 18670520-1867,
Annerstad sn Annerstad Hulugård 1867-?,
Kånna sn Berghem Andersgård ägare 18731107-1879,
Kånna sn Berghem Västregård lägenheten Grönlund ägare änkan
1879-18810516, Amerika 18810516-?
Johan! Alfred Lundberg, född 1845-11-14 i Rydö, Torup N, död 1890-02-14
i Drängsered N. Järnhandlare Bleckslagare. (f,d).
Karl Oskar Lundberg, född 1847-12-02 i Rydö, Torup N.
Kopparslagare Bleckslagare i Kobbol 1894, Torup N. (f,hfl).
Adress Torup N ?-18701024,
Annerstad sn Annerstad Hulugård torpet Berget
kopparslageriarbetare 18701024-18711105,
Kånna sn Berghem Bergsgård torpet kopparslageriarbetare
18711107-18730107,
Kånna sn Knänjarp Södregård torpet Berget kopparslageriarbetare
18730107-1876,
Kånna sn Knänjarp Södregård inhyses kopparslagare under Bengt
Peterssons 1877-18821116,
Kånna sn På Socknen P.183 18821116-18830611,
Torup N 18830611-18831224,
Kånna sn På Socknen P.184 kopparslageriarbetare 18831224-18850331,
Torup N 18850331-?, Torup N Kobbol 1894.
Karl Gustaf Lundberg, född 1850-02-12 i Rydö, Torup N. (f,hfl). E1881..
Amerika 18810919-?.
Adress Torup sn ?-18731202,
Kånna sn Kvänjarp Södregård torpet Berget Dräng 18731202-18741002,
Kånna sn Berghem Andersgård torpet Björkelund dräng
18741002-18771029,
Kånna sn Berghem Södregård torpet Berget 18771029-18810919,
Amerika 18810919-?
Johan August Lundberg, född 1852-06-08 i Rydö, Torup N. Hemmansägare
i Sandshult, Torup N. Långaryd N 1882-?. (f).
Vilhelm! Lundberg, född 1854-09-10 i Torup N. Bleckslagare
i Kobbol P.10 fb 1910-1930, Torup N. (hfl,ej i fb).
Adress Torup N Övregård bleckslageriarbetare 1886.
+ Maria Matilda Lundberg, född 1858-04-14 i Härhult, Torup N,
död 1861-11-20 i Torup N. (f,hfl).
Leander! Lundberg, född 1863-02-27 i Torup N, död 1893-03-18 i Kobbol,
Torup N. Bleckslagare i Kobbol 1883-1893, Torup N. (f,hfl).

The family was not listed in Öfregård in the Torup 1861-1866 Household Examination. They were, however, listed at the end of the Household Examination in a place called Öfregårds Nybygge for the years 1861-1866.

Birth:
in Löderups parish, Skåne (near Ystad), according to Carl Johan … May 4th according to WikiTree

Johan married Maja Lisa LIND on 2 Feb 1840 in Karlsborg, Skaraborgs län, Sweden. Maja (daughter of Christofer ANNASSON LIND and Eva Sophia WENNERBERG) was born on 7 Nov 1816 in Grängshyttan Pilabo, Hjulsjö, Örebro län, Sweden; was christened on 7 Nov 1816 in Hjulsjö, Örebro län, Sweden; died on 16 Jul 1887 in Torup N Bosatt i Rydö Pappersbruk, Hallands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Nov 1816, Hjulsjö, Örebro län, Sweden

Notes:

Birth location also shown as Östra Grängshyttan Pilabo Hjulsjö Sweden. Born as Maja Lisa. Also known as Maria Elisabet.

Her birthdate in the Torup Household Examination for Öfregards Nybygge 1861-1866 is 5 May 1817.

Birth:
WikiTree says 1815

Notes:

Married:
banns January 12th

Notes:

Diana says: The Rosengren family have not been such good people. Many of them have spent much time in jail. I have one of them being beheaded in 1823. Carl Johan identifies the beheaded one as Carl Fredrik Rosengren, 1778-1823.

Johan married Fredrika Wilhelmina HOLM. Fredrika was born on 27 Dec 1822 in Grimeton, Hallands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lumpsamlaren Och Artilleristen

Notes:

He was in the military in Karlsborg and had the number 39. The family moved from Varberg, Halland, to the Karlsborg garrison in 1831.

Carl Johan says that Anders Lundberg was an artillery man at Varberg and Karlsborg between the years of 1824 and 1832. Carl Johan also believes that Anders Lundberg was convicted of theft at least three times in Skåne in the years before 1824.

Carl Johan believes that Fredrik Lundberg, b. 1741 in Skåne, d. 1789-1792, may be the father of Anders and Anna Sophia Mentzner, b. ca 1740-1752, d. 1800, may be the mother of Anders. Alternatively, and perhaps more likely in Carl Johan’s opinion, is that Frederick Lundberg was Anders’s grandfather and that Anders’s father was Frederick’s son Petter, b. ca 1773 in Gothenburg, who would have fathered Anders at age 16.

By Carl Johan’s research, Frederick joined the military in 1776 at Malmö and was dismissed in 1789. Peter Lundberg served in the military from 1796 to May of 1798 when he was convicted of forgery.

Frederick also had a daughter, b. ca 1768 in Gothenburg, who died in 1778.

Petter Lundberg had a daughter named Anna Catharina with Sara Wennergren in 1796. Later, Sara had a daughter with Samuel Gustav Blom who was born in Abild parish, Halland county, on 23 Aug 1800. Anna Catharina Blom, having taken her step-father’s surname, had children with a man named Lindqvist, naming them with the combined surname Blomqvist. Quite interestingly, three of Johan Lundberg’s six sons married or had children with women with surnames Lindqvist or Blomqvist.

Anders also had a son name Johan Petter.

Carl Johan also found an old newspaper from January of 1798 which describes that the priest who had been asked to marry Petter Lundberg and Sara Wennergren demanded proof that Petter was not already married to another woman. Perhaps he had made up his own paperwork evidence to show that he was not married to another woman! Nevertheless, Sara Wennergren had a child with Blom two years later.

From all of his research, Carl Johan offers the following best guess, reasoning that we must be related to these people as they were the only Traveller Lundbergs in Sweden at that time:

Petter Lundberg. Soldier 1796-98 at Landskrona garnison. Born 1772 in Gothenburg. Engaged with Sara Wennergren 1796-98. Convicted for forgery in 1798 and dismissed from the Army.
Children: (here’s where the best guess comes in) son Anders born 1789 in Skåne, mother unknown. Daughter Anna Catharina born 1796 in Skåne, mother Sara Wennergren.

Fredrik Lundberg. Soldier from 1776 to around 1790 at Malmö garrison and wanderer (Swedish vandringsman). Born 1741 in Skåne, died around 1792 (perhaps in the war against Russia in 1790). Married with unknown women before 1782, married to Anna Sofia Mentzer (b. 1760-1752, d. 1800) after 1782.

Children: daughter Maria Helena born around 1767 in Gothenburg, died 1778 in Kronoberg. Son Petter born 1772 in Gothenburg. Daughter Sara Christina born 1782 in Skåne (mother Mentzer). Daughter Albertina born 1784. Daughter Fredrika born 1788, death 1789.

Further elaboration on Anders by Carl Johan:

“Anders Lundberg lived a short life: 42 years old when he died. He began his career as a farm hand and later at the age of 18 he went on to become a soldier, hussar, at Skånes Husarregemente. In all, Anders was a hussar, naval gunner, artillerist, vagabond and ragman at Klippan's paper mill. In 1811, 200 years ago, he was dismissed from the Army and began wandering the roads as a vagabond. It is clear that he came in contact with Travellers and befriendend them. He adopted a Traveller lifestyle that resembles that of other "real" Travellers of that time (e.g., working as naval gunner, ragman, coppersmith, etc.). He may have been seen as a Traveller by other Travellers. However, the only "real" Gypsy blood in his descendants comes in when his son Johan marries Maja Lisa Lind and when their children marry into other Traveller families. It can also be noted that Anders at 3 times was convicted for thievery and in 1821 he was sentenced to 10 days of water and bread.”

Also from Carl Johan: “In 1812 Anders was convicted for theft and got 40 lashes. Later a second time for theft with 40 lashes again and a third time for theft on water and bread.”

Birth:
Carl Johan’s research. Lyngby parish, Malmöhus län, Skåne.

Andreas married Elin STRÖMGREN. Elin (daughter of Johannes STRÖMGREN and Lena Pettersdotter) was born on 18 Feb 1787 in Kronobergs län, Småland, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not tattare. (And, apparently, neither was Anders.)

Carl Johan and Jan have found information suggesting that Karl Olaf Wigren, a sailor, may have been the biological father of Johan Mårten. In the birth records for Johan Mårten, he is shown as the illegitimate son of Elin Strömgren, no father listed. However, in the household examination for the fortress of Varberg and Karlsborg, Anders is stated as Johan’s father.

Carl Johan comments: “At a unknown date, Anders’s first wife Kersti dies or get divorce and he marries Elin Strömgren at an unknown date. Since Anders in the 1810ths was a naval gunner in Karlskrona, and that fact that Elin travelled in the same area as Anders, I suspect he was cheating on Kersti with Elin. In order to get a passport to Skåne, Elin told the authorities that she was to visit her uncle Henrik Bengtsson in Trelleborg. The problem is that she had no uncle Henrik so she obviously lied.”

Birth:
Östra Torsås socken

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Glass And Iron Merchant

Notes:

Other sources have his birth on 15 Mar 1788 in Eskilstuna, Södermanland.

He was employed in glass manufacturing and lived in several places.

Died between 1821 and 1823.

He married his cousin’s daughter.

Jan Johannson calls him Christofer Olofsson (Lind).

Died:
Jan Johansson says between 1821 and 1823.

Christofer married Eva Sophia WENNERBERG on 27 Dec 1811 in Järlåsa, Uppsala län, Sweden. Eva (daughter of Lars WENNERBERG and Hedvig LUNDSTRÖM) was born on 6 Jun 1795 in Norrtälje, Upplands län, Sweden; died on 17 Jan 1842 in Hova, Västergötland, Skaraborgs län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Jun 1795, Norrtälje, Upplands län, Sweden
• Confirmation: 7 Jun 1811

Notes:

Regarding her first marriage:

Marriage records reveals he was a widower, had papers verifying his good standing in the Lutheran church, was of good character, had previously labored as a glass merchant in a metal plant (manufacturer). He was from Eskilstuna.

Eva had this summer been taught her religion. She partook of the sacrament on 7 June 1811. Her father, L. Wennerberg, was a glassware merchant. Her mother was Hedvig Lundstrom. She was from Gyntersbach hem[m]an in this parish. The Banns were read. (Translated by Enka Haslam.)

Birth:
“probably in Eskilstuna, Södermanland”

Baptism:
WikiTree says Norrtälje is in or near Stockholm

Notes:

Married:
or Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden, the location in Swedish Marriages 1630-1920