My grandmother Lydia's older sister Anna was the second of Albin and Anna Abrahamson's nine children. Born July 31, 1885, she was tall and blond like her father. She married Johan Emil Jakobsson, a railway worker in 1907. In the first four years of their marriage they had three children. There was Rudolf b. 1907, David b. 1908 and Elisabeth b. 1910.
Anna's husband traveled first to America arriving in May 1011. He followed his brother Petrus (Peter) who had emigrated 15 years earlier.
Grandma Lydia visited Sweden with her young son Albin in 1913, Returning home to America she accompanied her sister Anna and Anna's three young children. They were joining their husband and father in America. It would have been a difficult trip alone but with three young children?
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| The Jakobson family Leaving Gothenburg, Sweden (click on document to enlarge and read) |
They left the port of Gothenburg, Sweden on the "Calypso" to cross the North Sea to Hull England. From Hull the two women and four children took a three hour or so train ride to Liverpool, England where they boarded the "Caronia", bound for America.
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| Manifest of the "Caronia" The Jakobson Family click on document to enlarge and read |
Landing at Ellis Island, September 17, 1913 Lydia and Albin (American born) could disembark directly to the dock but Anna and her children would be processed through Ellis Island proper. They traveled steerage or third class.
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Welcome to America Great Aunt Anna,
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