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

[pinefamily]

Good find, Malcolm!
Ian, could James be an anglicised version of Jacob?

[jamcat95]

Good find, Malcolm!
Ian, could James be an anglicised version of Jacob?

I was actually thinking what James could be in Swedish. This site says so anyway: http://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/swedish


Ian

[jamcat95]

Ian, could James be an anglicised version of Jacob?

Jöns and Jonas could also be James perhaps.

Ian

[Malcolm33]

   I think I know why Maude left Broken Hill for Melbourne in 1899.    I have just found a couple of trove reports dated 18th February, 1899, strangely in Queensland papers although the incident was at Summerhill, Sydney.   These tell us that Charles Lawson a Swede cut his throat and then stabbed himself in the abdomen and then threw himself into a canal (the Hawthorne Canal runs through Summerhill).   That was just under 8 months after he married Maude and 4 months before the birth of Percy.    He had found out that he was suffering from an incurable internal illness.   Nevertheless the only death that looks like him was in 1941 when a Charles Lawson living in Stuart Town died aged 74 and that fits the age of Charles who was 30 when he married in 1898.
    Stuart Town is not far from Mudgee where Peter Lawson married Louisa and she gave birth to Henry Lawson the Poet.    Peter Lawson was really Nils Larsen, a Norwegian Miner so they really did change their names quite a lot.

[pinefamily]

Malcolm,
I know it is not Sydney, but what about the Charles Lawson death in 1899 in the district of Gunnedah?

[Malcolm33]

Malcolm,
I know it is not Sydney, but what about the Charles Lawson death in 1899 in the district of Gunnedah?

   Thanks for that.   I never thought to look at 1899 when I first checked NSW deaths as I somehow took it that Charles had gone to Melbourne with Maude for the birth of Percy in 1899.  I see that the Gunnedah Charles gave his father's name as 'Hansen' which I suppose could be a variation of Lawson rather than Jacob.   Trove is not working well at the moment - overloaded they say - so will have a look at that in the morning.   Malcolm

[jamcat95]

Hi
Just adding names to the list. Might be something.

Charles Lawson died 7 Sept 1910 and buried in Finley, New South Wales.
Charles Lawsen died 22 Nov 1899 buried West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide.

Ian

[pinefamily]

Charles Lawsen d. 22/11/1899, buried West Terrace Cemetery was 50 years old. The section he was buried in is called the Kingston Allotments. I am not sure if that was the pauper section, as there is no lease details for the grave, which is unusual.

[Malcolm33]

  Thank you both, some very interesting cases arising all about different Charles Lawson's.   One has been found in police records using the names John Williams, John Wilson and Charles Norton, but that Charles Lawson was born about 4 years later and was in Melbourne all the time.
   Malcolm