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

[Malcolm33]

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

That is quite a find, Ian.   Many thanks.    I had no idea that Ede's Dad had been in the services in 1918.    Ede did tell me that he was in the RAAF during the last war and was stationed in Darwin.   When she married Dick in Scotland in 1956 she or someone had him down as a Squadron Leader but I don't believe that for a moment.     I guess it would have been the Army in 1918?   Malcolm

[jamcat95]

In 1943 he was in the Civil Constructional Corps - Victoria.


Ian

[jamcat95]

I had no idea that Ede's Dad had been in the services in 1918.

Well, he was medically unfit in 1918. So he wasn't enrolled.


Ian

[jamcat95]

It does also say that he was in the 1st A.I.F. for 2 months.

You can read these records here: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx

Just search with Percival William Lawson.


Ian

[Malcolm33]

Thanks Again Ian.   So the RAAF in Darwin was just a story.    Not really surprised.   Thanks also for the links.    I have had a quick look at Valda in Wikitree but there is no profile manager.   However I did discover that she was a daughter of Leonard Lawson born 1892 in Broken Hill who had a Masonic Funeral there in 1932.    So think I will investigate the possibility of Leonard being a brother of Charles.

[jamcat95]

Cheers Malcolm

I have just about exhausted all avenues looking for Jacob and Charles here in Sweden. I need a little more info really. Maybe something will pop up.

Ian

[Malcolm33]

Cheers Malcolm

I have just about exhausted all avenues looking for Jacob and Charles here in Sweden. I need a little more info really. Maybe something will pop up.

Ian

Thanks for all your help Ian.   Funny thing is that even the smallest find which may look insignificant leads to something bigger.    Your direction to Valda on Wikitree had me looking at that family which told me that her father was Leonard Lawson.  So I tried a search with some of the pointers in that Wiki Tree and up came the death of Leonard in 1932.   I tried to find his birth and at first it seemed it wasn't there in NSW BDM, but then I spotted a John L Lawson born in 1891 which would have been about right and that told me his father was James and mother Eliza.   I had already seen something about James which put his age about one year older than Charles so then guessed that James was an older brother of Charles.    I then found that James married Eliza Prentice and then looked through the Broken Hill Deaths which told me that James had died in 1913.   A new search in Trove and Bingo - http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/45227310?searchTerm="James Lawson"&searchLimits=l-state=New+South+Wales|||l-title=53|||l-decade=191    This not only confirms that James was the father of Leonard J Lawson but says that James was born in Gothenburg.    Previously we found that Charles came from Stockholm as did the father Jacob.   So perhaps Jacob and Christina had lived for a while in Gothenburg before going back to Stockholm a year after James was born.    There only seems to be a year difference between the births of James and Charles.
   There is a lesson here for everyone - Don't Ever Give Up and keep an eye out for the tiniest clue.

[jamcat95]

Great stuff.
I will try this new avenue.

Ian

[jamcat95]

Maybe my PM will be of some use!

Ian