Malvina Eugenia Hildegard Gosselman (1844 - 1885)

Born 4 Jan 1844 in Adolf Fredrik, Stockholm, Sverige

Ancestors

Wife of Otto Wilhelm Bodstrom — married about 1878 (to 1885) in Sweden

Descendants

Died 4 Nov 1885 at age 41 in Prästgården, Aspö, Södermanland, Sverige

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Biography

We know that Malvina Gosselman was an unwed mother when her sons Carl Henrik and Henrik Casimir were born. The father of her boys was not named, but her sons were grown when their mother died, so they could have been told the name(s) of their father(s). They each are a brick wall blockage to knowing their ancestry.

Adolf Frederick and Klara Church Records regarding illegitimate children show that both boys were given the surname Lind by Johan Wilhelm Albert Lind, who was not the biological father. In 1883, Estate documents of Johannes Lind, the father of Malvina's first husband, Johan Wilhelm Albert Lind, showed that Malvina was forced by a lawsuit to acknowledge that Johan W. A. Lind was not the father of her two sons, Carl Henrik and Henrik Casimir. She claimed that he merely gave the boys his surname as a way of showing that he was their father, and he considered it an adoption. Some household records indicate this also. However, there were no legal adoptions of the two boys.

The belief in Carl Henrik's family was that he was sired by Carl XV. It is possible that the family had a connection to the palace because an uncle/cousin of Malvina was Carl August Gosselman, who had a contract with Oscar I to explore in South America. He wrote some accounts of his travels that are still available for purchase as rare books. There is a record showing that Malvina's mother lived in the Drottninghuset in Stockholm in her final years of life, dying about 1890. This was reserved for people connected with the palace and the wives and orphans of military officers. Several antique photos of Carl Henrik look strikingly like male members of the Bernadotte family, especially Prince Carl August Bernadotte and Haakon VII of Norway.

Malvina passed away on November 4, 1885 in Aspö parish, Södermanland, Sweden. She married Bodström on June 10, 1878.^[1]

Research Note

Possible matches in Household books;

• Adolf Fredrik (A, AB) AI:54 (1851) Bild 5 / sid 2 (AID: v81516.b5.s2, NAD: SE/SSA/0001)
• Adolf Fredrik (A, AB) AI:56 (1852) Bild 6 / sid 4 (AID: v81518.b6.s4, NAD: SE/SSA/0001)
• Jakob och Johannes (A, AB) AIa:75 (1855) Bild 75 / sid 71 (AID: v86177.b75.s71, NAD: SE/SSA/0008)
• Klara (A, AB) AI:118 (1853) Bild 56 (AID: v87221.b56, NAD: SE/SSA/0010)
• Adolf Fredrik (A, AB) AI:71 (1859) Bild 75 / sid 142 (AID: v81533.b75.s142, NAD: SE/SSA/0001)
• Uppsala domkyrkoförsamling (C) AIaa:1 (1860-1865) Bild 529 / sid 525 (AID: v126519.b529.s525, NAD: SE/ULA/11632)
• Adolf Fredrik (A, AB) AI:79 (1863-1866) Bild 296 / sid 583 (AID: v81541.b296.s583, NAD: SE/SSA/0001)
• * Adolf Fredrik (A, AB) AI:80 (1866) Bild 119 / sid 226 (AID: v81542.b119.s226, NAD: SE/SSA/0001)
• Adolf Fredrik (A, AB) AI:84 (1868) Bild 19 / sid 27 (AID: v81546.b19.s27, NAD: SE/SSA/0001)
• Adolf Fredrik (A, AB) AI:88 (1870) Bild 47 / sid 83 (AID: v81550.b47.s83, NAD: SE/SSA/0001)
• Jakob och Johannes (A, AB) AIa:89 (1871) Bild 276 / sid 271 (AID: v86191.b276.s271, NAD: SE/SSA/0008)
• Strängnäs lands- och stadsförsamlingar (D) AIb:18 (1876-1880) Bild 408 (AID: v61685.b408, NAD: SE/ULA/11471)
• Strängnäs lands- och stadsförsamlingar (D) AIb:19 (1881-1885) Bild 296 / sid 289 (AID: v61686.b296.s289, NAD: SE/ULA/11471)

Sources

1. ↑ Sveriges Släktforskarförbund. Sveriges Dödbok/Swedish Death Index 1860-2017 ver 7.21, DVD, 2018. ISBN: 9789188341280