Help please Hans Jannsen Ahlfors born 1861 in Malmo - Swedish Records

[jamcat95]

The name Valda is also a Swedish name. There are a number of Valdas in the databases.

Ian

[jamcat95]

For the Swedish connection we must establish when Charles came to Australia. There is a possibilty that Jacob and boys left Sweden after the death of their mother to mine in Australia. I haven't unfortunately been able to find a Jacob Larsson with a Christina in the available databases.

Ian

[jamcat95]

Ede's sister is still living so don't think I can mention it.

Sorry about that, of course you can't.

Ian

[pinefamily]

There doesn't seem to be any record of Jacob being in Australia.

[jamcat95]

I wonder if Charles just anglicised his mother's surname. I am thinking it could have been Davidsdotter maybe.

Ian

[Malcolm33]

 Yes I think that has to be the case and Charles was very likely Karl Larrson.   Quite a few Jacob Lawson's appear in Trove reports like this one - http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/208342243?searchTerm=chandlers hill,clarendon,lawson&searchLimits=l-state=South+Australia
  But he could have just decided to use the name 'Jacob' on arrival in Australia.

[jamcat95]

Yes I think that has to be the case and Charles was very likely Karl Larrson.

I believe that his name was most probably Karl or Carl Jacobsson here in Sweden following the patronymic system and took his father's surname Larsson.


Ian

[jamcat95]

One of those is the death of a Valda Lawson.

Here is Valda in the Wiki Tree:
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lawson-289


Ian

[jamcat95]

Yes I would have thought that Charles would have died before Maude remarried, but I have found so many cases where people separated and they just didn't bother.

On the first page of Percival's enlistment papers he states that his father was deceased and that his mother had remarried. It was dated 15 May 1918.


Ian