Journal from the 1800s written mostly in Swedish

[jamcat95]

Second image:

Aug -      Trip to America 27 Aug 1879
27 -          We travelled from Stockholm
         We stayed in Hallsberg for the night
28 -          We left Hallsberg
         Arrived in Gothenburg in the evening
29 -          We left Gothenburg and arrived
         in Hull on Sunday
Sept 1  - We travelled by land on the train
         to Liverpool. Stayed the night
2 -          On the ship to America
         it was ?
3 -          Arrived at Hvinsta Ireland.... ?
8 -          We had ?
10 -          We arrived at St Jons ?
12 -          We arrived at Halifax America
          We arrived at Baltimore America
          From Baltimore to    


Ian

[Zefiro]

Ian, kudos for coming this far. I can add something.
10. We arrived at Saint John's Newfoundland

[jamcat95]

Cheers Zefiro
I did notice that there are 2 different handstyles.

Ian

[Zefiro]

12. from Baltimore to
Saint Louis, and from Saint
Louis to Kansas City
...

[jamcat95]

Great Zefiro, I just couldn't make it out.

Ian

[Zefiro]

3. Arrived at Queenstown Ireland

Hvinsta is phonetically close to Queenstown. (now Cobh, an Irish port)

[Zefiro]

number 5 and 7 are indeed addresses
5: his own
Carl Gustaf Johanson
Regeringsgatan 87 Stockholm

7: that of the lithographer (stentryckaren)
H.A. Anderson
Bergsgränd 3 Stockholm

number 8: his date of birth and his age, but his mathematical skills let him down
Carl Gustaf Johanson is 27 years old on 15 March 1880, and was born on 15 March 1852.

[jamcat95]

Yes you are correct.
I also noticed his age was off.

I've been trying to track him down. Stockholm is a difficult place to find people who don't want to be found. I'm getting there slowly.

Ian

[Zefiro]

Hi and welcome to RootsChat.
Interesting read. It looked gibberish at first trying to make head or tails of it all. I think it is his way of trying to learn/communicate in English. His written Swedish is oddly spelt as if it is anglicised in some way or he just couldn't spell.

The first image at the top says:
"The America Journey from Stockholm to Gothenburg"

The second paragraph:
To be honest I just cannot understand what he has written.

Third paragraph:
I want
We want
You want
Day pay
A ?
A horse?

The text to the right is pronounciation help I think.


Ian

You're right. On the left side is Swedish, but oddly spelt. On the right side is a phonetical version of the English translation.

Second paragraph: I think he wrote something like this: Can I please have (or buy) a new pair (of trousers)?

Third paragraph:
dags lön = wages (you wrote day pay, so I am unsure if you managed to read the right side)
en dal = a valley
en hestt = a horse