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Title: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: linussweden on Sunday 24 September 17 14:35 BST (UK)
I am searching for information about, Johan Peter Bygdén (Byggdin). Born in 1885, Byske, Sweden.
Before emigration his name is spelled Per Johan Bygdén. He was my fathers grandmothers couisin (Annette Kristina Bygdén, 1885).
Johan Peter Byggdin settled down in Saskatchewan.
Best regards

Linus Ekström
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: nanny jan on Sunday 24 September 17 14:46 BST (UK)
Welcome to Rootschat.   :)

The Canadian census of 1911 shows him to be unmarried and living in Saskatoon:

http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1911/jpg/e002104164.jpg


A John Byggdin (born 1885) was buried in Grandview District Cemetery in Manitoba in 1981:

https://billiongraves.com/grave/John-Byggdin/17126691
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: linussweden on Sunday 24 September 17 15:05 BST (UK)
Thank you for your fast reply.
This is a Picture of Mr. Byggdin visiting in Byske, mid sixties.
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 15:28 BST (UK)
Hello Linus...welcome to RootsChat,

John's obituary is in the Grandview Exponent, Dec 2 1981.  Luckily it has lots of information - including dates :) :)

John Peter Byggdin was born in Byske on Aug 25, 1885.  He died Nov 12, 1981.  He came to Sioux Falls, North Dakota with his parents on July 8 1893.  In July 1906, he moved to Craik, Saskatchewan where he filed on a homestead.  (so, you should be able to find him in the library and archives Canada homestead database).  On March 31 1914, he married Nellie Opan Smith of Eyebrow.  They had 4 sons and 1 daughter.  In 1932, they moved to Yorkton.  In 1936 they went to Grandview Manitoba.  They continued to farm until the death of his wife on Sept 8 1939.   He sold the farm, moved to Moose Jaw, and married Elva Lois Tisdale of Estevan.  After she died (no date given) he stayed in Moose Jaw, then moved to Melfort to live with his son Ernest.  Then moved to the Melfort Pioneer Lodge in 1967.  At the age of 82, he visited Sweden and other countries in Europe.  (Must be when your photo was taken.  If he was 82, that would have been around 1967).  The four sons are Ernest (wife Adeline) of Melfort, Ralph (wife Joyce) of Saskatoon, Wallace (wife Beth) of Wawota, Merle (wife Norma) of Edmonton.  His daughter is L* (husband Melvin Scott) of Melfort.   He was predeceased by 3 brothers, 3 sisters and one grandson.  He is survived by 12 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. 

RK

*modified to remove full name and replace with an initial
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 15:48 BST (UK)
There is a notice in the same paper of the Sale of the Grandview farm in 1939 (after John's wife died).   The location of the farm was N.E. 17-25-24, 4 miles west, 1 mile south of Grandview.  Sale was on Oct 20 1939.  He had several horses and several milking cows.  Also - lots of farm machinery.  The house contents are also listed. 

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: linussweden on Sunday 24 September 17 15:49 BST (UK)
Wow! The Picture is from around, 1967. He talked perfectly Swedish with the byske accent.

Thank you very much!
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: nanny jan on Sunday 24 September 17 15:53 BST (UK)
Great find RunKitty!   :)
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 15:55 BST (UK)
 :) :)

Western Land Grant to John Peter Byggdin - the Saskatchewan farm

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/land/land-grants-western-canada-1870-1930/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=131662&

See the Description of the Western Canada Land System - link is in the grey bar on the left of the page.  This will show you how to locate the farm using the section, township, range numbers.  If you need help, there are people here on the Canada board who understand this system really well (not me, unfortunately :'()

RK

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: linussweden on Sunday 24 September 17 15:56 BST (UK)
Can i read these documents from my computer here in Sweden?
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 16:03 BST (UK)
I have sent you a PM about how you can find the obituary and notice of sale. 

RK

Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 16:07 BST (UK)
Obituary for John's son Wallace

http://www.birchwoodfuneralchapel.mb.ca/obituary/163284

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 16:08 BST (UK)
Wallace's wife Beth

http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-34998-elizabeth-beth-marion-byggdin.html

Same - but easier to read
http://www.birchwoodfuneralchapel.mb.ca/home/obituary/502220

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 16:10 BST (UK)
Obituary for John's son Ralph

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestarphoenix/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-byggdin&pid=134846439

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 16:12 BST (UK)
Obituary for John's son Ernest

http://www.abbynews.com/obituaries/earnest-ernie-wendell-byggdin/

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 16:15 BST (UK)
Not seeing an obituary for John's daughter L... I am going to remove her full name from my earlier post and replace it with an initial (RootsChat has a policy of not naming living people in our posts... in order to protect their privacy). 

RK

Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: dbree on Sunday 24 September 17 16:35 BST (UK)
Hi,

From the book "Craik Friendliest Place"  a biography of the Byggdin family, pages 64, 65 & 66 with photos. It is slow to load.
http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=647516&qryID=f0aa6397-c9f1-464b-ac4a-bb764421ce57

DB
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 16:36 BST (UK)
Super find DB!!

Here is the family on the 1921 census
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1921&op=img&id=e003118259

RK

Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 16:47 BST (UK)
Looks like a Dr Merle Douglas Byggdin died in 1989. 

http://albertagenealogy-research.ca/Data/Papers/1985-1989EJ/1985-1989EJIndexPage58.html

Might be the son of your John... if not, is most likely a relative

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 17:05 BST (UK)
Merle when he was working for the Veteran's Land Branch (read about that in the book selection DB posted).  Hendersons Brandon Directory - 1947 and 1950. 

See also the 1943 Directory ... John P Byggdin of Brandon Creamery.   Also fits with the information in the book DB posted.  John worked in dairies in Yorkton and Brandon prior to 1944.

The first directory here shows Ralph Byggdin on page 169 (not 166 and 174 as shown in the list of "hits")

http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/search/?search=raw&pageNumber=1&field=body&rawQuery=Byggdin&index=peelbib

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 17:21 BST (UK)
Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project list of burials in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Melfort has

Melvin Russell Scott, April 19 1915 - May 9 1995. 

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansacem/melfort.html

This might be the husband of John's daughter L.  L's brothers' obituaries (Ralph in 2009 and Ernest in 2006) say that she is the wife of L Henwood.  Looks like she married again.

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: dbree on Sunday 24 September 17 17:26 BST (UK)
Great research RK  ;D
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 17:33 BST (UK)
Thanks :)

Obituary for Reverend C. Lavern Henwood in the Medicine Hat News, April 24 2006.  He died on April 20, 2006, his 84th birthday.  He was born in Grandview.  He married Sylvia Taylor in 1946.  They had one daughter and three sons.  Lavern and Sylvia retired to Medicine Hat in 1995.  Sylvia died in 2001.  In 2002, he married L. R. Byggdin (Scott)

Burial on findagrave
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94609185

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 24 September 17 17:43 BST (UK)
You little treasure RK

Sandra  ;D

Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 24 September 17 22:46 BST (UK)
You little treasure RK

Sandra  ;D

Thanks!!  Great work by NannyJan and DB too.  Team effort :) :)

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: dbree on Monday 25 September 17 01:25 BST (UK)
NannyJan started the ball rolling  ;D and you ran with it.  ;D

Sister Hilda joined her brother John in Craik, Sask. from Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1913 to keep house for her brother, and married Henry Sanden in 1918. From the same book, "Craik, the Friendliest Place" page 424 and 425.
http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=647876&&qryID=709fab2a-0149-4fb3-bb61-a781a98e87ed

DB
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Monday 25 September 17 03:03 BST (UK)
Hi,

Wow - lots of Sanden information in that book!  Two of the Sanden boys were pallbearers at their Uncle John P Byggdin's funeral in 1981.    :). 

Findagrave has several of the Sandens in the Craik Cemetery
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSiman=1&GScid=2284111&GSfn=&GSln=sanden

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Monday 25 September 17 03:38 BST (UK)
This looks like Hilda M Byggden (born in Sioux Falls), with her siblings and parents in Minnesota in 1910

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRVN-LHL?i=10&cc=1727033

The book found by DB says that John P Byggden's parents are Gustav and Anna.  This fits with the above census record. 

I wonder if sister Ruth on the census is the Ruth Jeffrey in the family photo on page 65 of the book?  Just a guess...

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Monday 25 September 17 03:44 BST (UK)
Gustav (Gustaf here ) and Annie in Minnesota in 1930

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRH8-3F4?cc=1810731

Further up the page is Nelz Byggden

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Monday 25 September 17 03:54 BST (UK)
Looks like John P's brother Nels here

WW1 registration
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-817R-K73?i=668&cc=1968530

WW2 registration - naming Mrs H Sanden of Craik, Saskatchewan Canada as a person who will always know where he is
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91R-C3SW-S

His tombstone
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=449258

RK (just a little extra information about the family :))

Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: dbree on Monday 25 September 17 14:16 BST (UK)
I wonder if sister Ruth on the census is the Ruth Jeffrey in the family photo on page 65 of the book?  Just a guess...

Good guess RK  :)

Ruth Minnie Jeffrey d. June 28, 1981 Victoria, B.C. parents Gustav and Anna Byggdin
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/9fc68b35-42f0-4d55-8b3f-46eb52e67c3c
Husband Peter Cruickshank Jeffrey d. Nov. 10, 1958 Victoria, B.C.
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/c6722370-ad98-4095-bd75-05193f09cf12

DB
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: RunKitty on Monday 25 September 17 16:48 BST (UK)
Super DB!! :) :)

RK
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: espressoshel on Tuesday 09 October 18 15:27 BST (UK)
Hello Linus,
Johan Peter Byggdin is my grandfather (Wallace was my dad). Just saw your posts this morning as I’ve just recently been doing some searching of my family history too. I see you have received some info, but I can certainly provide more, if you’re interested. Lucille, John’s only daughter, is still alive (98 this year). Merle, the youngest son, died about 30 years ago. As for me, I’ve been living in St. John’s, Newfoundland since 1996 (married in ‘07). Also, I have a cousin, Lorraine, who has done extensive work on our family tree. My grandfather’s trip to Sweden in the 60s is still fondly remembered by his clan!
Best regards
Shelley Di-Nur
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: linussweden on Wednesday 17 October 18 00:10 BST (UK)
Hello! That's amazing. I have a post card from, Wallace and Beth. They sent it to my mother and father back in 1982. 
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: linussweden on Wednesday 17 October 18 00:26 BST (UK)
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I'm 32 years old and livin' in Karlstad, Varmland, Sweden. My grandmother, Ingrid died in 2002. My father and mother is still alive and are living in my home town.



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Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: espressoshel on Friday 19 October 18 15:49 BST (UK)
Hi Linus,
Thank you! This is brief as I sent more info to your e-mail address yesterday. Let me know if you don’t receive it.

Best regards,
Shelley
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: linussweden on Sunday 21 October 18 02:36 BST (UK)
John is a cousin to Anette Eriksson. Thats Ingrids  mother and my fathers grandmother. My father remember John's trip to Byske. He spoke swedish 100% with the old byske accent.

Ingrid is my fathers mother. 1911 -2002. I have two old christmas cards sent to byske. My grandmothers sister, Edith was the last one to live in byske. They where 5 sisters. Edith, Ingrid, Sonja, Ruth and Marianne. Marianne died at the age of 14. She drowned at Byske havsbad.
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: espressoshel on Wednesday 28 November 18 18:14 GMT (UK)
Amazing to see how much info has been posted on this chat about my grandfather and his family. I'm also trying to go back further and find out more info about Johan Peter's father - Gustav Adolf Jonsson Bygden, born June 24, 1859 in Ytterstfors, Byske, Skelleftea, Vasterbotten, Sweden - specifically, how many siblings Gustav had. My family tree lists a Johan Petter Bygden, born March 24, 1850 in Byske, and I'm now aware of another sibling - a sister, Charlotte Kristina Bygden (born ?, married Karl Gustaf Lundqvist). Were there other siblings too? Am also wondering where the name Bygden originated. I have ancestry info dating back to a Pehr Bygden, born October 24, 1777, and to a Lars Bygden, born August 13, 1775 - both were children of Anders Larsson and Elsa Persdotter (soldier name Svarvare). If Pehr and Lars' parents had followed the patronymic naming system common at that time, their family name would have been Andersson. Wondering what may have prompted the change to Bygden. Thanks.
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: scooter77 on Saturday 11 February 23 18:02 GMT (UK)
Hello linsusweden,
My husband is the great grandson of Johan Peter Byggdin, the grandson of Ralph.  We are planning a trip to Sweden this summer and would like to visit Byske.  Do you know if there are any relatives still living in Byske?
Title: Re: Johan Peter Byggdin
Post by: linussweden on Tuesday 18 July 23 00:17 BST (UK)
I dont know if there is any one of the Byggdin/Bygden family relatives stil living in Byske. There is a Facebook page about Byske; https://www.facebook.com/groups/944509195586836/ Maybe you could try to post there. (Byske- berättelser och bilder från förr och nu) The cousin to John, my fathers grandmother is buried at Byske cemetery together with here husband and my grandmother and two of my grandmothers sisters. Best regards/ Linus in Karlstad, Sweden