Nils August's parents are listed as unknown in the birth record. According to the same record his biological mother was born Dec 6 1875. In the Haga parish records, notes say J. A. Edin. and also Lindbom or Lindholm 2R. Nils August moved to Lundby parish Dec 12 1898. [1][2]. Here, he was the foster child of Johan Adolf Edin (explaining the note above) and Anna Charlotta Hagström.[3] The Edin family, with Nils August, moved to Masthugg parish in September 1899.[4]
From 1900, Nils August was the foster son of Nils Johansson and Johanna Johansson. He moved to them in Karlskrona from Masthugg parish in Göteborg in July 1900 (the same day that his foster mother moved there from Malmö). According to the Karlskrona household records, his foster father requested to have the boy, "according to moving papers born of unknown parents" recorded as his own child.
1900 census, Kongl. Carlskrona Amiralitet[5]
Johansson, Nils, f. 1875-07-27 i Vä Kristianstads län, 2 kl. Sjöman
Johansson, Johanna Bothilda, f. 1875-12-02 i Karoli Malmö, Malmöhus län
Edin, Nils August, f. 1898-01-16 i Göteborgs Haga, Göteborgs och Bohus län, foster son
1910 census, Rörsjöstaden Kvarteret Anna, Malmö[6]
Johansson, Nils, f. 1875 i Vä Kristianstads län, Råvaruarbetare
Johansson, Johanna Bothilda, f. 1875 i Malmö Karoli Malmöhus län
Nils August Edvin, f. 1898 i Göteborgs Haga Göteborgs och Bohus län
Hedvig Nilsina, f. 1900 i Malmö Sankt Petri Malmöhus län
Greta Paulina, f. 1902 i Malmö Sankt Pauli Malmöhus län
Ella Beata, f. 1905 i Malmö Sankt Pauli Malmöhus län
Nils August Johansson married Carla Alfrida Ingeborg Kreipke, born 1900 in Malmö, on September 30, 1922. They had children Inga Britta b. 1923 and Rolf Lennart. They family lived in Sant Göran parish in Stockholm in 1940.[7]
He was called Johansson when he passed away on February 18, 1981 in Matteus parish in Stockholm, Sweden.[8]
The last name Edin came from Nils August's first foster family.
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