Esther Elida (Ekvall) Ladd (1897 - 1979)

Born 2 Sep 1897 in Mörkhult, Sweden

Ancestors

Wife of Levi Kimball Ladd Sr — married 9 Oct 1920 in Blue Hill, ME

Descendants

Died 18 Nov 1979 at age 82 in Pittsfield, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Esther was born in the village of Mörkhult, in the parish of Osby, county of Kristianstad län, Sweden on September 2, 1897.^[1][2]

RMS Carmania, Liverpool to Boston

She left her home parish on the 13 Mar 1914 to travel to America.^[3]

On April 14, 1914, she arrived in Boston from Liverpool on board the RMS Carmania, a Cunard liner built in 1905. On the passsenger manifest, she is recorded as being age 16, a domestic worker, able to read and write, and Boston was her final destination. Alof Ekvall is listed as her father and her last permanent residence was Ousby [sic] (Osby) Sweden. ^[4]

In 1920, Esther was 22 and living in a boarding house in Boston, where she was working as a companion for a private family. ^[5]

She worked for a wealthy Boston area family as a servant and came to Brooksville to accompany her employers while they were on vacation. It was there that she met Levi and they fell in love and engaged.^[6]

S/S Frederik VIII, New York to Oslo

That next spring, she travelled back to Sweden after 7 years of living in America and having gotten married, perhaps to visit family and connect one last time before starting her new life and family. She departed New York on April 22, 1921 on the S/S Frederik VIII of the Scandinavian America Line^[2]

Esther died on Nov 18, 1979 and was buried at Floral Park Cemetery , Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Parish Birth Record, Osby (L) CI:11 (1895-1916) Bild:440 Sida: 40, Uploaded here
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} 1921 Passport Application, Uploaded here: Page 1 Page 2 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Roll #: 1567; Volume #: Roll 1567 - Certificates: 19126-19499, 14 Apr 1921-14 Apr 1921 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Selected Passports. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
3. ↑ Parish Records accessed at https://www.arkivdigital.net/, Osby (L) AIIa:2 (1901-1918) Bild: 1180 Sida: 439 researched by Bayne Genealogical Research, Blågullsvägen 9, 24471 Dösjebro, Sweden, baygenr@gmail.com, christinabayne.blogspot.se on 8/20/18 as hired by Richard Burbank and uploaded here
4. ↑ Carmania Passenger Manifest, April 14, 1914 and uploaded here
5. ↑ 1920 United States Federal Census for Esther Ekwall See Line 75 at this link Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Boston Ward 6, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_731; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 175 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
6. ↑ This info was passed on in family stories including told to Richard Burbank by his grandmother and the couples' daughter, Betty Ladd Burbank
7. ↑ Marriage Record Maine State Archives; Augusta, Maine, USA; 1908-1922 Vital Records; Roll #: 31, Source Information: Maine, Marriage Records, 1713-1937, Author: Ancestry.com
8. ↑ Esther Elida Ekwall Ladd (1898-1979) on Find A Grave: Memorial #116117852 retrieved 15 August 2018