Tracing an immigrant . where do I start? - CARLSEN

[jorose]

His birthplace may be Kristinestad/Kristiinankaupunki, and there are some Finnish parish records online:
http://hiski.genealogia.fi/hiski?en

However, there are a lot of Carls with fathers Carl in the right sort of time frame (it's set up so if you enter Karl etc you'll get Carls back).

[Cell]

Hi thanks so much  for the replies Jorose and Tricia, I've only just see them.

 Hi David, I've only just got back into this side. When I eventually  put all my  info together on the Johnson's I will send you the info - As it stands now, it's all over the place in various files . The Johnson's got confusing last time and I put it down for a while- this time I'm sorting it out for once and for all (I hope)

  I think you may have two families mixed up. Just my thoughts: I think that there were two Nicholas Johnson's around Swansea at the time   - one married an Ann in 1793 , the other a Jane in 1808. Reason being as in 1820 "our" Nicholas Johnson was still married to an Ann.
 He and his wife seem to have fallen on hard times in the 1820  as he and Ann put in a claim with Trinity house in Swansea ( the seamens mission)   . That's unless he married three times, which is possible of course  - ie Ann first then Jane and then to a another Ann .

The report of the  coroners inquest of Nicholas Johnson ( There was an inquest into his death in 1844) could  mention family members , I'm about to email for the cost of it , and order it by post, which will probably take a few weeks by slow mail.

confused?, I am !
Kind regards

[Andrea Hertel]

Hi - Struggling to do something similar and getting nowhere fast!  My great grandfather is placed on his Master Mariners certificate in Port of London 1836 born Auclaw Prussia.  Where is that??

[wendy47]

Hi

I too am struggling.  Abram Carlson b c 1833 Sweden, a Ship's Carpenter. What is it about Swedish Ship's Carpenters?

 Have you looked for Charlson?
I did find mine under that name when he obviously registered anything because of his accent but he never mentioned his place of birth.
IGI has a Abram that could be him and it looks like I'm going to have to hire a Swedish researcher.
It doesn't help that his son names him Edward on the wedding cert but all the censuses have him as Abraham.

You have my sympathies.  Good luck

Wendy

[madpants]

Not that it's a lot of help to you Wendy, but we have Carlsson friends in Sweden and have been told that the C spelling is posher than the K 

[wendy47]

Hi madpants

I expect nothing less. 

CHARLSON must be royalty

Wendy

[Candolim_Imp]

Re: the listing of Carl being married in an early census, I wouldn't assume that was right.

My GG grandfather was a merchant seaman from Denmark and was listed as married on board ship some years before his marriage to my GG grandmother. For a while, my sister wondered about bigamy, but I believe it was a simple case of laziness and lack of knowledge/interest of the person who submitted the information. I suspect that one person (master/captain etc) gave the enumerator the data on all the crew, so the ages and birthplaces might be correct, being on ship records or being well-known, but a sailor's marital status would likely be unknown and of little interest to the master of the ship.

[Krysa]

You are able to look at immigrants and aliens on the National Archive Site.
There are records for certificates for alien arrivals and naturalisation case papers can be searched

Naturalisation case papers (1789-1934)
Search the Catalogue (HO 1, HO 45 and HO 144) by last name (surname) and nat* for naturalisation case papers.

Web Address:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/naturalised-britons.htm

Hope this helps.

Regards Krysa.

[wendy47]

Thank you very much Krysa

I am still looking!!
I have very little info pre-wedding [in 1862] . No place of birth and I believe some sailors just walked off their ship and disappeared. He is missing in 1871, and his wife is listed as a Seaman's wife.

I will check out the link but I'm not sure whether he was naturalised.

Regards Wendy