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View Tree for Anna Lovisa PalmquistAnna Lovisa Palmquist (b. December 02, 1832, d. May 22, 1929)

Anna Lovisa Palmquist (daughter of Lars Unknown and Lovisa Unknown) was born December 02, 1832 in Fallhult, Hvena Parish, Kalmar County, Smaland Province, Gotaland Region, Sweden, and died May 22, 1929 in Lindsborg, McPherson County, Kansas. She married Olof August Olson on February 18, 1871 in Freemount Lutheran Church, Union Township, McPherson County, Kansas, son of Borje Olofsson and Cajsa Lisa Samuelsdotter.

 Includes NotesNotes for Anna Lovisa Palmquist:
SOURCE #1: Obtained death certificate 23-July-2003; State of Kansas #59-3442

Lived in Lindsborg for 40 years (came to Lindsborg approximately 1889)
Lived in US for 68 years (came to America approximately 1861)
Husband = August Olson
Birthdate = Dec 2 1932
Occupation = Housewife
Brithplace = Smolan (Smaland Province), Kalmar Ian (Kalmar County), Sweden
Father = Unknown Larson, Smolan, Sweden (Palmquist was the surname taken in America)
Mother = Lovisa Larson, Smolan, Sweden
Informant = Henry N. Olson, Lindsborg, Kansas
Death = 22-May-1929 at 4 am
Burial = Elmwood Cemetery on 22-May-1929 in Lindsborg, Kansas


SOURCE #2: Susan Joy (Barratt) Smith of 200 North 800 East, American Fork, Utah 84003; Summer 2003

Photocopy of Susan's copy of the Freemount Lutheran Church's membership rolls - confirmed birthdate and birthplace for Anna and August, confirmed names of children and birth dates


SOURCE #3: Email messages from Inga Olsson (karlerik.ol@telia.com) on 14-August-2004 and Steve Johansson (sjohansson@shaw.ca) on 06-September-2004

Inga translated parish records of Vena (formerly spelled Hvena or Hwena) that showed an Anna Lovisa Larson with birthdate of 2-December-1832. According to Inga's search of the Swedish Church Records loaded onto the www.genline.com website the birth records showed father was Lars Svensson and mother Ingrid Stina Persdotter (was Lovisa her nickname?)

Steve translated parish records (Vena Birth Records, Volume CI:4, Page 318, Genline Reference 173.30.61500) that showed an Anna Lovisa Larson being born on 2-December-1832 in Fallhult, Vena, Kalmar Ian, Sweden with father being farmhand Lars Svensson and mother being Ingrid Lena Persdotter (different middle name then what Inga found)


SOURCE #4: 1900 and 1910 US Federal Census Records

1900 - Anna L., Hilda E., Henry N., and 9 year old girl with last name of Nelson
1910 - Lovisa, Hilda E, and Nils J. Palmquist (brother)

MISCELLANEOUS #1 - Behind the Name website http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/swe.html

LARS = Scandinavian; Scandinavian form of LAURENCE (1); Pronounced: LOR-ents; From the Roman cognomen Laurentius, which meant "of Laurentum". Laurentum was a city in ancient Italy, its name probably deriving from Latin laurus "laurel". Saint Laurence was a 3rd-century deacon and martyr from Rome. According to tradition he was roasted alive on a gridiron because, when ordered to hand over the church's treasures, he presented the sick and poor.

INGRID = Scandinavian, German; From the Old Norse name Ingríðr meaning "Ing is beautiful", derived from the name of the Norse god ING combined with fríðr "beautiful". A famous bearer was Ingrid Bergman, an actress from Sweden; ING = Germanic Mythology, Norse Mythology; From old Germanic Ingwaz, which possibly means "he who is foremost". Ing was the name of a Norse and Germanic fertility god, known in Scandinavia as Yngvi Freyr (see FREYR).

LOVISA = Swedish; Swedish feminine form of LOUIS; Pronounced: loo-EE (French), LOO-is (English); French form of LUDWIG. This was the name of 18 kings of France, including Louis IX (Saint Louis) who led two crusades, and Louis XIV (the 'Sun King') who was the ruler of France during the height of its power, the builder of the Palace of Versailles, and the longest reigning monarch in the history of Europe. Also, Louis Riel was a Canadian rebel leader. Robert Louis Stevenson was the author of 'Treasure Island' and 'Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.

LENA = Scandinavian, German, Russian; Scandinavian and German short form of HELENA or MAGDALENA, and a Russian short form of ELENA; HELEN = Possibly from either Greek helene "torch" or "corposant", or Greek selene "moon". In Greek mythology Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, whose kidnapping by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War. The name was also borne by Saint Helena, mother of the Roman emperor Constantine, who supposedly found the True Cross during a trip to Jerusalem. Another famous bearer was Helen Keller, the American author and lecturer who was both blind and deaf.

STINA = Scandinavian; Scandinavian short form of CHRISTINA; Feminine form of CHRISTIAN. This was the name of a Swedish queen of the 17th century who was interested in the arts and philosophy. She gave up her crown to become a Roman Catholic.


More About Anna Lovisa Palmquist:
Burial: May 22, 1929, Elmwood Cemetery, Lindsborg, McPherson County, Kansas.
Church Records: October 06, 1889, Bethany Lutheran Church, Lindsborg, Kansas.
Death Informant: 1929, Henry N. Olson.
Occupation: Housewife.
Record Date 1: July 15, 2003, Obtained Death Certificate.
Record Date 2: September 06, 2004, Obtained emails - Vena Birth Records.

More About Anna Lovisa Palmquist and Olof August Olson:
Marriage: February 18, 1871, Freemount Lutheran Church, Union Township, McPherson County, Kansas.

 Includes NotesMarriage Notes for Anna Lovisa Palmquist and Olof August Olson:
SOURCE #1: Marriage License - McPherson County, State of Kansas

2-17-1871 is license with Nathan Bean as Probate Judge
2-18-1871 wedding at Freemount Lutheran Church joined by A. W. Dahlsten, Lutheran Minister
August Olson is 35
Analovisa Palmquist is 38





Children of Anna Lovisa Palmquist and Olof August Olson are:
  1. Frans August Wilhelm Olson, b. April 07, 1872, Union Township, McPherson County, Kansas, d. April 28, 1872, Union Township, McPherson County, Kansas.
  2. Hilda Elizabeth Olson, b. July 07, 1873, Union Township, McPherson County, Kansas, d. April 07, 1946, J.E. Palmquist residence.
  3. +Henry Nathaniel Olson, b. December 24, 1875, Union Township, McPherson County, Kansas, d. February 12, 1949, Lindsborg, McPherson County, Kansas.
  4. Olivia Kristina Olson, b. September 28, 1890, d. date unknown.
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