Agneta Catharina was born in Botkyrka parish 5 August 1795 to the gardener at Slagsta, Pehr Ekström, and his wife Catharina Dahlin.[1][2]
Journeyman Anders Johan Wickman married maid Agneta Cathrina Ekström 26 December 1816. "Sponsors" were gilder C. Öhman and roadworker Bengt Tolin.[3] They lived in Göken #3 on Kungsholmen with her widowed mother.[4]
At the birth of daughter Anna Sophia in December 1819, Agneta's widowed mother appeared as christening witness.[5]
Anders Johan and Anna Catharina had eight children before she was widowed in 1830, but four died in infancy or childhood. The eldest daughter married in 1840. Like many people in old Stockholm, she moved often.
In 1840 the household of widow A. Cath. Wickman consisted of daughters Anna Sofia, Charlotta and Maria Catharina, plus an apprentice - the widow had continued th business of her husband as a gilder. They lived in the quarter Nedra Vätan.[6]
In 1841 she lived in Övre Vätan with her daughters, one journeyman gilder and one apprentice. There was alo as foster son, F. Gustaf Oscar Wickman.[7] (the son of a brother to Anders Johan named Gustaf).[8]
In 1842 it looks like their landlady in Nedre Vätan is Gustafva Charlotta Wijkman (born 1808, relationship?).[9]
1846 Jericho. Daughters Anna Sophia and Maria Catharina present + one journeyman gilder. Widowed daughter Johanna Bernhardina Nyman with son in the continuation on the next page.[11]
1848 Jericho. Daughters Anna Sophia, Josefina Charlotta and Maria Catharina. Grandson Nyman + one gilder. [13]
1849, Jericho with three daughters and grandson.[14]
1851, Jericho with three daughters + foster son Bernard Niclas Wahlström born 19 September 1842. Widowed daughter Johanna Bernhardina and her son are neighbours.[15]
1852, Österbotten with daughters Anna and Maria + foster son Bernhard Nicolaus (1842 - he does not seem to be related, but he became a gilder when he grew up.)[16]
Widow Catharina Wikman, born 1795, resident in David B(agares) B(acke) (=the Österbotten quarter) died from consumption 8 May 1853.[17]