Gustav the Seller of Milk and Bread

Gustav was the son of Elin and Jön Svenson. When Gustav's father died his mother remarried, and Gustav became the stepson of Trufvid Holmquist<

2 Gustav Johnsson Holmquist (July 22, 1843 - January 5, 1888), was the son of Elin by a former marriage. His first wife was Ingrid Christina Bengtsdotter (January 11, 1852 - August 26, 1870) whom he married on November 27, 1869. They had one child Emilia Sophia Johnsson Holmquist who died when she was less than a year old.

Gustav's second wife was Cecilia Bjelkengren (September 13, 1841 - January 1919)1 who was from the Vinslöv area. Cecilia had an illegitimate son, named Carl Peter who at ten years old emigrated to America. Gustav and Cecilia had six children together, Johan Enok who died when he was less then two years old, Annette, Alma, August Edward, Edvard and Alma. The two Almas and August Edward also died very young.

Gustav and Cecilia sold milk and bread in Killeberg, Loshults parish. Gustav died at the young age of 44 from tuberculosis.

2.1 Carl Peter Johnsson Holmquist (November 13, 1868 - Deceased). Carl, an 'illegitimate' son of Cecilia, went down to the church office on April 15, 1878 and got either his emigration papers or Swedish passport and a certificate for change of address to go to America. He was only 10 years old at the time. We do not know who he traveled with, though we do know that his aunt Menny2 also went to the USA later in the year of 1878. Perhaps they went together.

Bengt Holmquist has been attempting to trace Carl Peter. During his search Bengt contacted Nils William Olsson (the author of Swedish passenger arrivals in the United States 1820-1850) whose ancestors come from Killeberg. Bengt wrote to him and asked if he knew something about Carl Peter. Nils answered that when he and his father visited Sweden in 1920 Annette Olsson (#2.3, Carl Peter's half-sister) one evening saw them and asked if they could get in touch with her brother in Texas!

Bengt also found an old photo of a young man which had been taken in Texas. This photo had once belonged to Annette who had them from the Bjelkengren family. On the photograph was printed Harper & Co 505 1/2 Main St Houston Texas.

The age of the young man on the photograph was between 25 to 30 years old. If the photograph is of Carl Peter then the photograph would have been taken about 1900.

2.2. Emilia Sophia Johnsson Holmquist (March 4, 1870 - July 13, 1870).

2.3. Johan Enok Holmquist (October 28, 1873 - December 17, 1874).

2.4. Annette Holmquist (May 30, 1875 - December 14, 1960) married Hans Alfred Olsson (June 2, 1877 - November 20, 1903 and buried November 26, 1903) on November 10, 1899. Hans was a mailman who drove a travelling post office van. They both moved to Hälsingborg,3 but Hans died after four years from "nerve fever." After a while Annette moved back to Killeberg where she lived until her death. Anna and Carl Holmquist took care of Annette the last four years of her life.

Annette and Hans had no children.

2.5. Alma Holmquist (June 26, 1877 - January 1, 1878).

2.6. August Edvard Holmquist (March 18, 1879 - November 20, 1880).

2.7. Edvard Holmquist (December 24, 1880 - May 14, 1962) married Ida Maria Holmgren (July 29, 1878 - April 24, 1921) on February 28, 1903. If this date was correct then Maria may already have been three months pregnant with their first child, Hans.

Ida's parents were Johannes Holmgren ( ???? - July 21, 1904) and Tilda ( ???? - February 8, 1913). Her brothers and sister were Nils, Karl, and Anna. (Anna married Erst Sandberg who was a gardener from Holmstad. They had four children, Brita, Inga, Gösta and Johan).

Edvard and Ida had three children: Hans, Karl and Elsa.

Edvard's second wife was Esther Teresia Hansson (July 2, 1886 - November 2, 1965). They married on June 28, 1923. Edvard took a job as a railway guard in Hälsingborg. A while after moving to the city he built a home in Hälsingborg by Sofiero. He eventually retired in Hälsingborg. Esther died in a car accident. Edvard and Esther had no children.

2.7.1. Hans Titus Holmquist (August 28, 1903 - May 31, 1960 ) married Märta Aurora Johansson (December 4, 1905 -) on February 6, 1932. He was a real "go-getter" having three stores selling children's clothes. Hans died at age 56 in a goiter (thyroid) operation.4

2.7.1.1. Ingrid Holmquist (February 18, 1933 -) first married Lars Forsberg (May 24, 1926 - ) on September 20, 1953. They are divorced. They had no children.

Ingrid later married Gösta Otto Lennart Carlsson ( ) on June 30, 1960. Gösta, was a teacher of English. Ingrid taught psychology and management at a hotel and restaurant school. She has a degree in philosophy called 'filosofie licentiat' and has co-authored with another colleague three books about psychiatric care. The titles of the books are Psykiatri för vårdbiträden inom social service, Grunder i psykiatrisk omvårdnad and Etik i omvårdnad. Möten mellan Människor. She is now (1996) working on the biography of a person named Pontus Fürstenburg. Pontus was inclined to financially help artists, the most famous being the Swedish artist Carl Larsson.

Ingrid didn't at first think of becoming a teacher. She wanted to be a journalist. When she was very young, however, she moved to the small town of Växjö where journalist jobs were not to be found. Later she and her husband moved back to Göteborg where she became a teacher like her husband.

Ingrid likes to travel (she has been to New York two times without her husband who doesn't care to fly), likes literature, art and cats. Gösta loves his boat which is made of steel and is 9.7 meters in length.

Gösta was born in Gustav Alolf's parish in Helsingborg, and Ingrid in Maria parish in Helsingborg.

Ingrid and Gösta live in Göteborg.

2.7.1.1.1. Hans Gösta Ola Carlsson (April 5, 1960 -). Ola is studying at the School of Social Studies. Ola was born in Växjö.

2.7.1.1.2. Jens Petter Georg Carlsson (December 19, 1966 -). Petter is called 'Pepe'. Pepe is working at a television production company after returning from the USA in December of 1994 after four years in New York where he studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre School. Pepe was born in Göteborg.

2.7.1.2. Ingemar Holmquist (March 25, 1936 - April 3, 1936).

2.7.1.3. Jan-Olov Holmquist (April 28, 1938 - September 28, 1994) married Britt Nilsson (January 29, 1945 -) in 1965. Jan-Olaf lived in Dalarna and was divorced from Britt. Jan-Olov died on board the Estonia when it sank in the Baltic Sea on September 28, 1994.

He and Britt had no children.

2.7.1.4. Marianne Holmquist (July 27, 1946 -) married Tommie Carl Georg Kronholm (July 27, 1946 -) on May 30, 1965. Marianne lives in Helsingborg. She and Tommie had two children.

2.7.1.4.1. Camilla Susanne Kronholm (June 12, 1965 -). Susanne works as a photographer.

2.7.1.4.2. Linda My Kronholm (December 12, 1971 -).

2.7.2. Karl Ruben Holmquist (April 26, 1906 - May 25, 1967)5 married Anna Bengtsson (June 24, 1906 -) on May 8, 1938. Karl started a store (possibly a store that sold coffins) with his aunt Annette in Killeberg near Älmhult. In the spring, on May 8, 1938 Karl took over the store and added a house to it. Karl and Anna lived many years in that house. They sold the store in 1950. At one time Karl also worked in a factory.6 In 1982 Anna started living in an apartment, and sometime before 1997 moved into a retirement community in Loshult, a retirement community where she had originally been employed. Anna is originally from Loshult parish, born the first of eight children three of who (including herself) are still living.7A video tape exists of Anna talking about her childhood. Both Elsa and Jenny have a copy.

2.7.2.1. Bengt Edvard Holmquist (February 10, 1939 - December 18, 1939).

2.7.2.2. Bengt Holmquist (October 7, 1940 -) married Lillian Christine Zettergren (August 20, 1942 - ) on August 20, 1942. They are now divorced. Bengt later married Rosa Meyrowitsch (September 10, 1949 - ) on April 5, 1980. Rosa's mother, Anna Meyrowitisch passed away July 27, 1996. She lived in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bengt was a librarian and managed the hospital library in his home town of Falun. Rosa was a railway guard. In 1988 he had a free trip for 13 days to New York and Washington. He and Christine had one son, Dan-Trued. Bengt and Rosa have two more children, Anne and Kalle.

In 1996 two Holmquist relatives, Marian Calhoun and her sister June Ridderhoff both from America visited Bengt and his family. Of their visit to Bengt and Rosa, Marian writes:

Our trip to Falun was on the new vast x2000 train, and being in 1st class we were served a lovely lunch. This is the train Rosa, Bengt's wife works on. Anna, Bengt's daughter (16), met us at our hotel and together we went to the Dalarna museum, most interesting, and the Carl Larsson's home,8 which was so impressive, we were really happy to have a chance to see it. Anna [who] is a beautiful girl, will be leaving for Mobile Alabama as an exchange student in August [1996]. That evening, we took a cab to Bengt's house for coffee, etc. He is so interesting and has a lovely wife, and besides Anna, has a 12 year old son, Kalle, and he's a neat kid. We had a wonderful evening with them, and Bengt has a room with genealogy books up to the ceiling -- old, old records. He is an expert and showed us interesting, old letters and books. He also has a woodworking room that could be shown in House Beautiful or some such magazine . . . . Their home is 4 floors, top one not lived in yet, a lovely home.9

2.7.2.2.1. Dan Trued Holmquist (November 3,1966 -) married Theresa Jonek (October 2, 1967 -) on June 15, 1996. Trued spent one year in West Webster, New York attending R. L. Thomson High School. He also visited the Niagara Falls at the time. Trued now works as a business lawyer in Stockholm and in his free time likes to hunt.

2.7.2.2.2. Anna Noomi Meyrowitsch-Holmquist (April 17, 1979 -). On August 13, 1996 Anna left for Mobile, Alabama in the USA to attend St. Paul's Episcopal School for nine months.

2.7.2.2.3. Karl [Kalle] Ruben Meyrowitsch-Holmquist (November 23, 1983 -) is interested in guns and rifles.

2.7.2.3. Anna Maria Holmquist (October 26, 1943 -) married Bengt Karl Wilhelm Sigte (February 3, 1937 -) on December 31, 1962. They had two children but are now divorced since 1973. On October 5, 1996 Maria married Knut Anders Valter Kjellberg (August 20, 1938 -). Maria's brother Bengt and his wife Rosa were witnesses. Maria and Knut live in Torsby Värmland where she works as a ward nurse.

2.7.2.3.1. Johanna Maria Sigte (July 25, 1963 -) married Anders Wilhelm Ulmestig (December 13, 1960 -) on December 7, 1960. Johanna spent one year at Estanica High School in Costa Mesa, California. She is a lab technician. Anders and Anna live in Stockholm.

2.7.2.3.1.1. Axel Wilhelm Ulmestig (May 25, 1991 -).

2.7.2.3.1.2 Jakob Anders Oskar Ulmestig (December 6, 1992 -).

2.7.2.3.2. Anna Charlotta Sigte (November 14, 1964 -). Charlotta spent one year at the Armstrong High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a medical gymnast and lives in Oslo, Norway.

2.7.2.4. Elsa Birgitta Holmquist (December 19, 1947 -) married Urs Engler (February 21, 1948 -) on April 4, 1972. They live in Urikon, Switzerland. Urs is a judge and Elsa is a housewife. They have two children, Björn and Annette.

2.7.2.4.1. Björn Edvard Engler (May 10, 1981 -).

2.7.2.4.2. Annette Katarina Engler (March 18, 1983 -).

2.7.2.5. Frida Berit (Bittan) Elisabet Holmquist (July 29, 1949 -) married Lars Christer Bergdahl (November 17, 1948 -) on December 31, 1970. Christer works as a transport manager and Bittan as a nurse. They live in Staffanstorp, Sweden about 1 1/2 Swedish miles from Malmö and have two children, Fredrik and Jenny.

In November 1998 the Bergdahls, Christer and Bittan, Jenny, and her brother Fredrik and his girlfriend Therese visited Meilynn and Steve Smith in Scotts Valley, California.

2.7.2.5.1. Fredrik Lars Bergdahl (May 9, 1971 -). Fredrik attended university in Lund.

2.7.2.5.2. Anna Jenny Bergdahl (May 8, 1973-) Jenny worked in Malmö but now goes to university in Lund. Jenny visited her American cousins in California in 1990 and 1998.10

2.7.3. Elsa Maria Holmquist (September 17, 1907 - September 15, 1988). Elsa lived in Malmö the last 25-30 years of her life and worked at a restaurant in Malmö.11 The last years of her life she lived in a convalescent home in Malmö.

Elsa wrote Bernard Holmquist about the year 1961 while he and his family were living on Taiwan. Elsa had attended a Swedish Baptist conference in Sweden where she learned that the daughter of some missionaries named Doris Rinell had married a Bernard Holmquist. She got the address and wrote finding out they were indeed related. Elsa and Bernard corresponded a bit and sent Christmas cards every year.

2.8. Alma Holmquist (May 13, 1883 - December 2, 1883). Alma was a little over six months old when she died.

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