My sister

Hi,
time to tell you more about my sister Anna-Greta, daughter of Daniel. As I told you before, she was born in the parish of Göteryd, 10th April 1821. She moved to Tofta with our family and was a candidate for confirmation in the church of Ljungby in 1837. She married Sven-Johan Nilsson 15th September 1844 in Ljungby. Together they continued the work at the north farm of our home in Tofta when our father Daniel Olofsson died in 1851.

Anna-Greta and Sven-Johan had the following children:

• Beata Kristina Svensdotter, born 23rd Oct 1844. She married a man called Johan Nilsson from the parish of Tånnö and they lived at Tofta North farm and raised four children.
• Johanna Gustava Svensdotter, born 18th Jan 1847. I was present at the christening a few days later. She married Anders Johan Johannesson from the parish of Berga and lived there at Torlarp's Björsa-farm with their eight children.
• Ingrid Maria Svensdotter, born 15th Jan 1850 and died the following day. She was baptist in emergency and died of stroke.
• Maria Helena Svensdotter, born 23rd Sept 1851. She married a corporal, Carl Reinhold Rosén, lived in the parish of Hamneda and had two children. Only one survived childhood.
• Johan David Svensson, born 6th August 1854, died seven months later by stroke.
• Nils David Svensson, born 7th Sept 1856, died by accidential suffocation three months later.
• Emelie Charlotta Svensdotter, born 28th Sept 1858, died after three months in scarlet fever.
• Carl Edvin Svensson, born 6th Feb 1860. Married Ingrid Kajsa Johannesdotter from the parish of Berga and had four children together. They lived in Ljungby, in Hagatorpet.

Some of you might have gone to sleep during these lengthy revelations, telling you only names and dates. Sorry, just wanted you to know what happened to my siblings. May be this gives you a bit of insight of how life was in those days. You could not rely on hospitalcare when your children were ill. You would probably, in any family, have to count on loosing some of your little ones. My sister gave birth to eight kids and lost four of them. My parents had six kids and lost three.

In any case, if you are still reading I guess you do not think I am a TW. Quite like to learn short forms like LOL and LOFL which we do a lot up here in heaven. TW is a time waster and some folks think genealogy is of that category. I have all the time in the world up here and I just love those intelligent kids of mine who TW with genealogy stuff on earth already.

In future there will be more stories than names. That is what keeps my secretary going...next time she will tell you a love-story about my mother! And then later on there will be more photos to show you. Cameras were scarce you know in those days back in 1800. But I enjoy just being alive. You know my days are numbered as we talk about the days just before 1870.


Friendly greetings from my heavenly place,
Göran Danielsson.