Ida was born in 1854[1] as the third child and second daughter of wholesaler Robert Holmstrand and Kristina Lovisa Lundin in Nr 71 of the 3rd Quarter, Gävle.[2][3][4][5] In 1870 the family moved to Nr 29 of the 2nd Quarter,[6][7] then in 1876[8] she married Henric Kreij and they lived for a short while at Nr 2 of the 3rd Quarter (curiously, they seem to have been recorded as living there together already in 1875)[9][10] before moving to Nr 36 before August[11] and again to Nr 63 of the 2nd Quarter in 1877.[12] In 1879 they moved twice, first (after 14 Jan) to Nr 38 of the 3rd Quarter[13] and later (before 19 Dec) to Nr 41;[14][15] then between 1882 and 1885 they moved first to Nr 50 of the 2nd Quarter[16] and then to Nr 12.[17][18] After Henrik died in 1886,[19] and their last child was stillborn two months later,[20] Ida and her daughters moved first to Nr 62 of the 3rd Quarter[21] and then to Nr 226 of the 2nd Quarter;[22][23][24][25] the latter she owned, and she lived there until she passed away from a brain haemorrhage in 1935.[26] (Note however that the designation changed from Nr 226 to Rudan 1 in the early 1920s.[27]) In the last month before her death, her granddaughter Britta Kjellin lived with her.[28]
Ida and Henrik had five children, of which two survived to adulthood:
Ida's estate inventory is available at Arkiv Digital (paywall); her estate was appraised at about 165.000 SEK, which corresponds to about 6.000.000 SEK in 2022,[35] and according to her last will and testament (as copied in the inventory) it was split evenly between her daughters and designated their personal property (i.e. not shared with their husbands).
Note: Henric Ludvig's family name is spelled Kreij until about the turn of the century, and thereafter Krey; whether the change was the result of a deliberate decision within the family, a misreading by a clerk that became accepted as official (the difference between ij and y is not always obvious in the hand-written documents) or indeed a correction of an older misunderstanding to accord with the family's actual use is today hard to tell.
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However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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