Stina Kaisa Svensdotter Andersson

  Research Notes:

Herniman Olson FT [Joyce Payne] ; accessed 10 Jun 2021
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/157220159/person/212065482737/facts

My Family Tree FT [Janell Marie Hurdman] acessed 10 Jun 2021 [ ***** also FamilySearch id, GHXL-ZCT ]
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/75375875/person/272255558799/facts




1. US Evangelical Lutheran Church records, Big Grove Lutheran Church, Brooten, Stearns Co

- no birth record, but there is a confirmation record of 1871 (image 349, ancestry) that says she was born on 1 Jan 1855. This is likely incorrect - the birth record from the Sweden Church Records is likely the most accurate since it was recorded close to the actual baptism event

image: 442; burials
died 21 Nov 1888; Stina Townsend; parents Sven Anderson and Marjit Andersons; spouse, Henry M Townsend

- this death/burial is also noted on the FamilySearch FT, however, there is no record of her burial at Big Grove Cemetery. I also looked for any burial record for La Moure, La Moure - but no record for her. There is no records Lutheran Churches, but St Ansgar, formed in 1889, but on the first few pages of the history, some gatherings as early 1882-83. Some baptisms/burials but most starting about 1901

- although it is possible that she died Stearns Co, I think that she more likely died in La Moure, ND. Although I have no evidence of this.


2. Marriage: 28 Jul 1881, Fargo Cass Co, ND
- this is the date recorded on the FamilySearch FT [ LRRW-V8F ]
- then searched: North Dakota marriages: on the North Dakota State University digital archives https://library.ndsu.edu/db/marriage/results

Henry M Townsend and Steyna Anderson, married 28 Jul 1881
[then I checked the same website for 1885 ND State Census - see point 3]


3. She is recorded with her parents in the 1875 MN State Census and the 1880 US Census

1885 ND State,
[ La Moure, La Moure Co, ND abt 30 km east of Kulm; abt 175+ kms south west of Fargo]

page 20 of La Moure Co; dw 291; fam visit no 291; line 41 [image 28 on Ancestry collection - 1885 La Moure Co]
Henry M Townsend, age 45 [abt 1840] , b in MI; Hotel Landord; parents b in New York
Steyna Townsend, age 26 [abt 1859], b in MN age is different ??? -likely a mistake
line 48: Eleanor Townsend, age 75 [abt 1810], b in New York and her parents born in New York
lines 43-47 - others/ servants/boards
- the above record Does not record any children

NOTE: Stina's sister, Helja/Helen Nelson is also located at La Moure - so it makes sense that this record is correct for Stina - either they traveled together or one of them had gone to La Moure Co earlier
Stina was recorded with her parents (Sven Anderson) as a single person in the 1880 US Census. Helen is recorded in the same household as, married to Ole Nelson


4. I have looked through the Digital Horizons (ND State Archives) - I could only find one book about La Moure Co ["In the Valley of the Jim"] - I reviewed the 66 pages but nothing on Townsend or Nelson


5. other - re: Henry M Townsend: I have used the dates of his birth (1885 ND State Census) and death from the following records
Henry M Townsend
2nd marriage likely remarried: on 12 Jul 1901
Harry M Townsend, age 58 [his second marriage] Nettie W Clark, nee Nettie W Hagerman
age 55 b in Denmark; his residence Everett [from WA Marriage Records, 1854-2013


findagrave, 142217041; Evergreen Cemetery, Everett, Snohomish Co, WA; died 1920

Washington, U.S., Select Death Certificates, 1907-1960; death 1 Mar 1920
his father as O B Dyer [?] [likely Obadiah] Townsend; mother Elanor Maioley [likely McCauleu];
spouse Nettie Townsend

1910 US Census: Everett ward 7, WA; ED0288; sheet 4B; line76
Henry M Townsend, age 70 b in MI; parents b in New York; 2nd married 9 yrs
wife Nettie, age 68 b in Denmark, 2nd marriage; mother of 2 children, 1 living
1920 US Census; Everett, Ed 0160; basically the same as above
1900 US census - not indexed in Everett on Ancestry or Family Search ?????

Stina married Henry M Townsend on 28 Jul 1881 in Fargo, Cass Co, North Dakota, United States. (Henry M Townsend was born about 1840 in Michigan, United States, died on 1 Mar 1920 in Everett, Snohomish Co, Washington, United States and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Everett, Snohomish Co, Washington, United States.)