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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Thomas Hopwood 1836?
« on: Friday 13 November 09 08:48 GMT (UK)  »
Gosh!

Thank you ever so much

I guess it could be him. Will have to do some checking


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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Thomas Hopwood 1836?
« on: Friday 13 November 09 00:40 GMT (UK)  »
Hi!

I'm tring to find out about the birth and parents of gggrandfather Thomas Hopwood who was listed as 45 years of age in the 1881 census. He was then a house painter although an earlier census lists him as cordwainer.

In 1881 his place of birth is listed as "L" which I presume means London as he was living in Chelsea at the time of the census.

However I've heard that these particular Hopwoods came from Shropshire and were non conformists

Any help would be appreciated

Thank you

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Europe / Re: Russian Swedish nationality
« on: Tuesday 04 August 09 19:53 BST (UK)  »
Here is another web adress.

It is in sweden and is a research and emmigration center for emmigrants in Sweden.

http://www.utvandrarnashus.se/eng/



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Europe / Re: Russian Swedish nationality
« on: Tuesday 04 August 09 19:46 BST (UK)  »
On this page there is a very interesting article about Swedish speaking people in St Petersburg, many of whome were tailors

http://www.swemi.se/utvandring-13920.asp


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Europe / Re: Russian Swedish nationality
« on: Tuesday 04 August 09 19:35 BST (UK)  »
And a bit more...

There has been a swedish church in St Petersberg since 1634. It was closed for a long time but is now open again and administrated from Äbo / Turku in Finland. The vicar is called Eero Sepponen and he can be reached at


Eriksgatan 3,
Åbo
Finland

eero.sepponen@evl.fi


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Europe / Re: Russian Swedish nationality
« on: Tuesday 04 August 09 19:18 BST (UK)  »
here is an address of a genealogy society in finland. Qvarnström is one of the names they are researching

http://suvut.genealogia.fi/hango/slakt.htm


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Europe / Re: Russian Swedish nationality
« on: Tuesday 04 August 09 19:01 BST (UK)  »
 Oh sorry i apologise

Qvarnström ( spelt like that ) is also a common name. means the same thing

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Europe / Re: Russian Swedish nationality
« on: Tuesday 04 August 09 18:54 BST (UK)  »
Just had a look at the telephone directory. Kvarnström is a common name in Sweden. There are 208 Kvarnströms in Stockholm alone.

But in Finland it is also a common name.

The most famous Kvarnström is the dance choreographer Kenneth Kvarnstöm. He comes from Finland but works in Sweden

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Europe / Re: Russian Swedish nationality
« on: Tuesday 04 August 09 18:46 BST (UK)  »
Hi Linda!

If you ancestor was Swedish speaking, then he would probably have spelt his name "Karl Kvarnström"

Kvarnström means "running water next to a mill" - a watermill. It's the sort of name that lots of swedish  speaking people took in the 1800's when they didn't want to be called "hansson" or "svensson" any more. It means that your ancestor wasn't necessarily related to other people with the name Kvarnström unless you know the parish that he came from.

It may be that he came from sweden. it may also be that he came from the Finnish speaking part of Finland. Finland at that timeincluded the area Karelia which is close to St Petersberg and there were Swedish speaking people who lived in Karelia ( like the poet Edith Södergran).

Also at that time the finnish merchant navy sailed under the russian flag so if he came to England as a sailor for example ( not unusual ) then he would have sailed under thje russian flag even if he was a swedish speaking finn.

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