Tracing the men who jumped ship

[jamcat95]

Just wondering..... how do you know he jumped ship?

Ian

[Xashus]

That is what both of my Swedish 2 x Great Grandfather's did. They were not part of any Scandinavian emigration voyages and that is why we have no other records for them.
Frederick Lawson (Larson) fell in love with my 2 x Great Grandmother while working on the ship that she was sailing out from England on.

[jamcat95]

Ha, so you have 2 Swedes in your family!
If you need help on Frederick I can try there too.


Also
Is his natuarlisation record online?

And
What info do you have on Petrine as it might help.



Ian

[Xashus]

I have found Petrine and her family as the Danish records are free and not too difficult to decipher.
I will need to do some more digging for Frederick.

[jamcat95]

Did Peter have a middle name.

Ian

[Xashus]

It doesn't look like it. Frederick Larson died quite young and doesn't appear to have been naturalised.

Peter's naturalisation record has him as Peter AndersEn.

Petrine Peterson came out to NZ aboard the Punjab in 1873. There were quite a few other Scandinavians on board - perhaps Peter was a crew member on that.

[jamcat95]

The surname Andersen sounds Danish.
I know you said the record says Goteborg but are you sure he was actually Swedish.

Ian

[Beg Clonrode...]

Hello Xashus...

Welcome to Rootschat

Although often inaccurate, "Svenska in NZ" has the following...

(it's a free-to-view Dropbox link so just X any popups asking you to register)

http://tinyurl.com/pdtt8sl

Columns are as follows...

Name - Born - Parish - County - Arrived - Naturalised - Deceased - Married/Children - Occupation - Notes

Dates are back to front so his date of birth is 8 Jan 1850 (nowhere near 1832)

Date of marriage is 20 Dec 1874 in Banks Peninsula

Date of naturalisation is 15 Jan 1901 in Le Bon's Bay

Date of death is 16 Aug 1918 in Christchurch

Four children


Any of this fit?

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Here is the brother, Erik Gustaf...

http://tinyurl.com/opf5ldz

Regards
Beg

[jamcat95]

Hi
Great info Beg.

I took a look at these 2 gentleman in the Swedish Church Books and yes they were brothers and were seamen. Their dates of birth are correct. This looks like to be Peter Andersson even if the birth date is different. Their father's name was Andreas Pettersson.
The minister had noted that Erik Gustaf had jumped ship in November 1872. He had also noted in the book for 1872-1882 that Peter was in London.


Ian