The Bystrom FamilyUpdated August 2, 2006 |
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Diane Bystrom
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Välkommen! Well, after much help from Inger in Sweden, we finally have a physical location of where grandpa lived. I have attached most of the photos along with descriptions. As well, there are birth entries for grandma & grandpa along with census documents. "Hi Diane, Now I have visited the place in Gideå where your gggf Johan Magnus Adrian was born and where he, his siblings and parents lived for about 30 years from 1864 to 1892 (or 1894). Your ggggf Johan Svensson Byström bought it in 1864 from Per Bodin that had owned the place since 1845. Johan Svensson Byström sold it in 1894 to Erik Hägglöf b 1863 that owned it until 1927...The farm is located in Sunnansjö village, before it was called Getingsta but they divided Getingsta and now there are two villages, Getingsta and Sunnansjö. Sunnansjö is lovely located by the sea Bodumsjön. The farm is at the south side of the sea but very high up in the village...The village across the lake is Getingstabodum where Johan Magnus Adrians mother was born. Also, may have have found a cousin Berit which is Grandpa's brother Adof Eugene's daughter." Enjoy~ For the most part, our families worked farms or coal mines however there are a few interesting highlights... On Grandma's side, Erik Persson-Serviö and Valborg Hansdotter were the first official settlers to Kääntöjärvi in 1792...hence why Ingeborg's great, great grandfather Johan Ersson took the name. In the middle of the 1700's, a branch of Ingeborg's family (Bjornstrom)immigrated from Kemi, Finland (north end of the Gulf of Bothnia) to Sweden and even up to the 1880's (150 years later), they were still noted as Finnish in the census records!! I also have read that, besides Swedish, a unique dialect was spoken in the Torneåfors Valley and, since our family lived in that valley for around 150 years, I wonder if Grandma spoke that dialect? Does anyone know? Prior to Kemi, the Bjornstrom's came from "Pori, or Björneborg in Swedish, a city founded on the mouth of the Kokemäenjoki river in 1558 (Western Finland)." Jakob Isaksson Björnström married Elisabeth Kristiansdotter Antilia (born 1697) whose family came from Öjebyn, Piteå, Sweden. The first church (Öjebyn) was finished in year 1425. In 1750 it was rebuilt. Around the church there is 'Kyrkstaden', or overnight cabins, "were used only on Sundays and at religious festivals to house worshippers from the surrounding countryside who could not return home the same day because of the distance and difficult travelling conditions." This church and the surrounding village still stand today. There are several other church towns in Northern Sweden. The one at Gammelstad, Luleå (a larger version of Öjebyn's located nearby at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia) is a UNESCO world heritage site. On Johan Alvar's side, the Dynaesius's line had many priests. This it important to note because "Sweden was until the mid of the last century a very religious country and the Lutheran church wasn't separated from the State until the 1990's. Before 1900 all people went to church and up until the 1860's it was a crime not to go." Johan Alvar's dad was a blacksmith & moved to North America on April 17, 1905 and back to Arnäs Dec. 24, 1905 (good timing as Grandpa was born the next day). He was headed to Norway, MI which is where the coal industry was just starting to boom. On the passenger list, it was noted that he "does not appear right" and about 5 years later was committed to a hospital for life on Dec. 13 sometime after 1910 (noted on the 1910's Swedish census). Because of that, per Anna our 3rd cousin in Sweden said that the family was broken up "...Anna was a foster-child and lived with Olof and Brita Magdalena and Knut lived with Bernhard." Bye for now~ |
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