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Family History Beginners Board / Struggling to find info on Swedish relative
« on: Tuesday 28 February 17 00:42 GMT (UK) »
Hi there,
For months now I have been completely struggling to find any information for my Swedish great great granfather, Charles Nilsson. I know that he married Catherine Fellows in Sheffield in 1887 and they had several children and eventually moved to Gateshead. Shes with him on the 1991 and 1901 census but is absent on the 1911 census but I cant find a death record for her.
Charles was born in Sweden, I'm not sure when he came to the UK as I can't find any record. I cant find a birth certificate or a death certificate for him either but going by the census' I think he was born around 1858 and he was a 'machine fitter/repairer'. His fathers name was John according to the marriage record.
I've been stuck at this for almost a year now and I am slowly going mad, I'm desperate to find out more about my Swedish roots but I just can't get any further.
PLEASE if anyone is looking for a challenge please please feel free to take this one on. I have tried everything and nothing has worked. I've even tried looking up swedish records under the name Carl (Swedish for Charles) and Johannes (Swedish for John) but I just can't get a match.
For months now I have been completely struggling to find any information for my Swedish great great granfather, Charles Nilsson. I know that he married Catherine Fellows in Sheffield in 1887 and they had several children and eventually moved to Gateshead. Shes with him on the 1991 and 1901 census but is absent on the 1911 census but I cant find a death record for her.
Charles was born in Sweden, I'm not sure when he came to the UK as I can't find any record. I cant find a birth certificate or a death certificate for him either but going by the census' I think he was born around 1858 and he was a 'machine fitter/repairer'. His fathers name was John according to the marriage record.
I've been stuck at this for almost a year now and I am slowly going mad, I'm desperate to find out more about my Swedish roots but I just can't get any further.
PLEASE if anyone is looking for a challenge please please feel free to take this one on. I have tried everything and nothing has worked. I've even tried looking up swedish records under the name Carl (Swedish for Charles) and Johannes (Swedish for John) but I just can't get a match.