Looking for Swedish birth record for Carl Erik Holmer and parents [closed]

Question

Carl Erik Holmer was born in Älvsborgs län, Sweden on 20 September 1880. His parents were A.J. Holmer and Ida. A.J. Holmer seems to have emigrated to the US before 1890, perhaps without his wife and children. Any birth records, emigration, or marriage records would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I think I have found Ida and the children emigrating in 1890 and the father emigrated in 1888. That part fits with you family history. But the name Holmer must have been taken in US, AJ's LNAB was Abrahamsson and AJ stands for Anders Johan.

Will add info to the profile, then you can edit it to fit your style of biography.

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I was waiting for your EmiWeb findings!

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:-D

Need your reading help though to make sense of where AJ and his parents were from. Something ....red, perhaps Tistered? But can't find any parish named Tistered?

Grönahög (P) AI:9 (1877-1890) Bild 174 / sid 169 (AID: v15042.b174.s169, NAD: SE/GLA/13166)

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You can see the family a little better on p. 158 - but it sure is a new variant of bad handwriting.

It's Fivlered.

Found out by looking up Ida Carlsdotter in Folkräkningar, her husband was also there and they give birth parishes.

Answer 2

Hi Dana,

Not sure but here is a possibility for immigration record

Name:	Carl E Holmer
Arrival Date:	16 Jul 1903
Birth Date:	abt 1879
Age:	24
Gender:	Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality:	Swedish
Port of Departure:	Liverpool, England
Port of Arrival:	New York, New York
Ship Name:	Aurania

Source: Year: 1903; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 0375; Line: 23; Page Number: 75

Comments

Thanks for your time on this one, Steve. I found this Carl E. Holmer, too. But, unfortunately it's not the right guy.

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Alright thanks for letting me know

Answer 3

I just found this:

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS6N-J83 : accessed 7 September 2017), Carl E Holman in household of Andrew J Holman, Ellicott Township Celeron & Falconer villages, Chautauqua, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 93, sheet 22B, family 532, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,014.

Comments

Hmmm... daughter Ingrid L?? That should be Signe Wendela Charlotta. One would think she would take the name Charlotte.

Will check on when Ida's mother might have emigrated.

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As so many censuses it is full of mis-spellings. There is also an Urie in the family - who is Thure in the Swedish book.

I looked at a couple of household records, but I'll leave it to you.

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Well, Idas mother, Johanna Larsdotter, left at the same time as Ida and her children did but was not listed as "family". Emiweb said she travelled alone, was 68 years old and unmarried.

Also searched Emiweb for everyone leaving Grönahög parish and there is no Ingrid at all among the results.

@ Dana, I won't be doing any more editing on Carl Eriks profile so you can start editing to fit your style.

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I was thinking that Ingrid was a mishearing of Signe by the census taker, but when I look at the census image it looks more like a mistranscription - it says Singan or something like that. Singen, perhaps.

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You're right, didn't check the original. You can also see it says Holmar and not Holman.

SInce Idas mother Johanna is named Johnson in the census her husband should probably have been a Johansson. Don't have time to do further research today though.

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Wasn't looking at the last name.

Anyway, this is a good illustration for why transcriptions without an image available should be taken with a big pinch of salt. (Is that expression used in English?)

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Thanks for digging into this for me, Eva. Yes, mis-transcriptions do bedevil us, don't they!