« Reply #18 on: Saturday 15 February 14 23:38 GMT (UK) »
Well that's a story in itself. Erik met a woman who had apparently been deserted by her husband (last child born 1878), and they had 6 daughters. Because of the prohibitive cost of divorce, Erik could not marry her. The first two daughters were registered under the first husband's surname, the next not registered at all, and the next three as "Lindquist" (what the name became out here). I have this information handed down from two of Erik's daughters. Apparently the daughters from the first marriage used to tease the Lindquist girls about being illegitimate. My grandmother used Lindquist all of her life, and she was the eldest.
To cut a long story short, as soon as the first husband died in 1915, Erik and Jane married.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)
Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.
