1843 Anders was born in Södra Oljonsbyn, Orsa (W). [1]
Anders later became a soldier and got the soldier name Örn. He was with Orsa Companie No 43 and was discharged 1861.
1865 Anders married Kerstin in Oljonsbyn, Orsa (W). [2]
1865-79 The family lived in Oljonsby, Orsa (W). [3][4]
About 1879 The family moved from Oljonsby to Wiborg, Orsa (W).
1880 The family left Wiborg for North America on 8 May. [5][6] The party included his mother Anna and another family from the village (Carin Olsdotter, widow, and her 4 children).
Source: S21 Ancestry.com 1900 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004; NOTETwelfth Census of the United States, 1900
Anders was a soldier with the soldier name Örn. So was the dead husband of Carin Olsdotter, the family that left for US together with Anders and his family.
The dead husbands name was Eric Ersson Örn. It is likely that Anders knew him and had perhaps promised to look after his family.
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If he adopted the name Ericsen in US, then where does the name Nygren come from that all the children seems to have adopted?? Why are the children not called Ericsen as well?