1. Daughter of [private mother] 2. [Private] is the daughter of Ernest Carl Nelson 3. Ernest is the son of Karl Johan (Nilsson) Nelson 4. Charles John is the son of Kristina Maria (Persdotter) Persson (1841-?) who is Wikitree's Persdotter-3225

I don't have a Charles who married a Harriett Wootton as the oldest son of Kristina in my list of 7 children. My Charles/Karl (1872-1921) is the 2nd son and married an Amanda Sophia Öst.

There may be a more distant connection that I haven't found yet.

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Have not found a good match in the Malmö-parish archive for Gustaf Adolf Persson born 1870. What do you know? What does the church in Edam/Canada know?

But found this by the way... Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918

Regimental number 299017 224th Battalion NAME: Walter Wootton BIRTH: Birmingham, England RESIDENCE: Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

This might be your Walter Wootton? Just got up on google trying to help you on the Persson issue... //kajjan

The ***-son and the ***-dotter was put after the fathers firstname. That is the most common way to get a surname. In late 1800 that system was changed to keeping the Surname even to the next generation. I will research the swedish archive and try to find Per Persson from Malmö for you. If you like me to try, please send me a mail on [email address removed]

Hi Lynn! I'll try to help you on this, but I must however have all the facts you have got. Have you seen the passenger list of Per Persson, your great grandfathers emigration from Malmö, Sweden to America? To find his birth certificate I need the name of the parish, Malmö is a large town with several churches/parishes. In the passenger list you might find the location of his birth, residence and other usefull information. The surname forms in early Sweden was always inherited from the fathers first name. So for example your great grandfather Per got your grandfather and he will get the surname Persson after Per Persson, If your grandfather had a sister her surname was Persdotter.

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