He grew up with his parents.[3] Then he worked for some time at Värnanäs manor. He left in 1840[4] to work in the garden of Lundholmen manor in Vrigstad.[5] He came as gardener from Vrigstad to Nydala manor in 1841 and left for Kungsbacka in 1841.[6]
While he was in Nydala, he had married Anna Lotta Andersdotter, who lived in Halfnarp in neighbouring Hylletofta and gave birth to their first child in the home of her widowed mother:[7] The gardener A.W. Törngren at Nydala and his wife Anna Charlotta Andersdotter in Halfnarp had a son Carl Fredrik 16 April 1847.[8]
Kungsbacka in this case meant Särö in Släp parish, where gardener Anton Svensson Törngren and his wife had two more children: Anton Emil 19 November 1849 and Emelie Charlotta 18 October 1851.[9] Wilhelmina Amanda was born in Särö 22 January 1854.[10]
Hilda Adelina was born in Vidkärr in Örgryte 25 September 1856.[11][12] They had two more little girls, both named Ida Fredrika - one in 1859 and one in 1861, both dead the same year they were born.[13]
Gardener And. Svensson Törngren in Vidkärr died from consumption 9 May 1861. He was married and had six children.[14]