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Hello Sherry.
Thank you so much for your kind offer. I am in close contact with my second cousins who live all over southern Sweden, have visited them there several times and, as you can imagine, they continue to be enormously helpful to me in my search for my Swedish roots!
Sincerely
AndreaThank you so much Allison Holwell for taking the time to write to me about Capt. Olsen and Captain Borgen. I’m always interested in where and when Scandinavian natives settled in New Foundland. Although these men don’t seem to be related to my great uncle I will keep them in mind as I continue my search. Wouldn’t it be something if my Carl worked for one of them!
Andrea Adamko (nee Samuelson)I continue to look for my great uncle CARL EFRAIM JOELSSON who arrived in the area as a single, 20 year old man from Vrigstad, Sweden in November 1890 on the ship, Caspian. He died in a fishing accident in February or March of 1896. No known subsequent wife or children. He seems to have arrived with a small group of other passengers with whom he left Goteborg, Sweden, sailed to Hull England, traveled by train to Liverpool, and then sailed on the Caspian, a ship operated by the Allan Line. Other 3 Swedes in his party were from southern Sweden as well: Oskar Anderson,age 20, Charlotta Skog, 22 and Carl P Johanson 41. Thank you!
