Jöns Nilsson

  Research Notes:

See emails of 10/11 Nov 2025 from Jon Nelson


My link to this section of your family tree is through my father's relatives as follows:
Jon Nelson -> Roy Vernon Nelson (1929-2003) -> Nils Johan Nelson (1880-1946) -> Nils Nilsson (1858-1927) -> Kerstin Jonsdotter (1827-1902) -> Jöns Nilsson (1778-1852)

I have been looking primarily at direct ancestors to see how far back I can go so I don't have a lot of sibling data. We are keeping track things on ancestry in my spouse's account (her name is Claire Sahlin). She has worked in Ancestry more than I have but I will try to see if I can make sure you can see her tree if it isn't already available to others. Nonetheless, here are some bare bones details regarding my familial line from Jöns Nilsson:
My great-great-great grandparents:
Jöns Nilsson (3/1/1778-1852) married (on 12/26/1804 in Kvarnbacken) Maria Persdotter (9/10/1785-3/20/1859).
My great-great grandparents:
Jöns and Marie's daughter, Kerstin Jönsdotter (1/10/1827-10/14/1902) married (11/26/1851) Nils Jonsson Holmbråtan (taken name-5/7/1823-1/10/1897)
My great grandparents:
Kerstin and Nils' son Nils Nilsson (9/28/1858-2/6/1927) married Karin Johansdotter (Valkoinen? 10/27/1856-3/9/1928 from Kullarne)
My grandparents:
Nils and Karin's son Nils Johan Nelson (1/20/1880-11/27/1946) married Hilma Christine Persson (5/11/1885-8/31/1964 from Todyvelberg). They lived in Kvarntullen and left Sweden on 1/23/1909 on the Lusitania for the US.

Now from Nils Persson from your family tree (http://tree.grue.ca/9334.htm) we have:
My great-great grandparents:
Nils Persson (11/27/1832-12/18/1923 from Gamaltäppan) was married to Maria (Marit) Nilsdotter (Nikkarainen? 1837-12/13/1910). Maria's siblings include Anders (Andrew b. 1840), Ingeborg (1843) and Nils (1845).
My great grandparents:
Nils and Maria's daughter (Maria) Karolina Nilsdotter (12/15/1861-5/29/1951) married (on 12/26/1882) Per Persson (3/30/1858-2/8/1925). Maria's siblings Andrew and Peter were the first to go to the US, using the last name Rundquist.
Karolina and Per's daughter, Hilma Christine Persson, is my grandmother.

I have a bit of a master spreadsheet that I am keeping but it is a bit of a mess and perhaps not an ideal document to share with you just yet. I think looking over my spouse's Ancestry Nelson Family Tree will provide more information with supporting records and more siblings listed. I have a variety of birth, death, household, and estate records to support the dates/locations/etc. but have not yet had the time to really organize things.




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1. Disbyt; Roger Olof Holmstrand, id 05430; update 28 Feb 2017
[search, Nils Ivarsson, 1714-1764 - about mid-page]

2. Household records

Marriage: 1804 Östmark (S) CI:1 (1765-1818) Image 160 / Page 329, but I can't read where is is from

NOTE: some of birth records for older children record the parents names but record residence as Östmark, however, in the household records they live at Kvarnbacken (sometimes spelled Qvarnbacken)


Östmark (S) AI:6 (1806-1811) Image 32 / Page 25, Kvarnbacken
top of page:
Par Jonsson, b 1744, died 1810
Maria Nilsdotter, b 1741
then,
Måg Jon Nilsson, b 1778, wife Maria Parsdotter, b 1785
Karin, b 26 Sep1805
Nils, b 1807

Östmark (S) AI:7 (1811-1815) Image 32 / Page 26, Kvarnbacken
Jon Nilsson, b 1778, wife Maria Parsdotter, b 1785
Karin, b 1805
Nils, b 6 Oct 1807
Par, b 1811, död 1813
Par, b 1813, död 1814

Östmark (S) AI:8 (1816-1820) Image 37 / Page 31, Kvarnbacken
Jon Nilsson, b 1778, wife Maria Parsdotter, b 1785
Karin, b 1805
Nils, b 1807
Par, b 1815
Jon, b 9 Mar 1818 (CI:2, p 281 no 150)

Östmark (S) AI:9 (1821-1827) Image 43 / Page 37, Kvarnbacken
Jon Nilsson, b 1778, wife Maria Parsdotter, b 1785
Karin, b 1805 - referenced to p 44
Nils, b 1807
Par, b 1815
Jon, b 1818
Maria, b 1822
Ingeborg, b 1824

Östmark (S) AI:10 (1826-1830) Image 80 / Page 74, Kvarnbacken
Jon Nilsson, b 1778, wife Maria Parsdotter, b 1785
Nils, b 1807
Par, b 1815
Jon, b 1818
Maria, b 1822
Ingeborg, b 1824
Kjerstin, b 10 Jan 1827 (CI:3, p 55, no 10)

Östmark (S) AI:11 (1830-1835) Image 77 / Page 72, Kvarnbacken
as above

Östmark (S) AI:12 (1836-1840) Image 91 / Page 86, Kvarnbacken
some movements of some children
and, on the next page - 87
Nils Jonsson, b 1807; wife Ingeborg Olsdotter, b1805
öakta son, Olof Nilsson b 23 Jul 1831 - mother is Ingeborg, so they were married after Jul 1831
Mans, b 23 Feb 1834
Marit, b 22 Feb 1836
Jon, b 12 Jun 1840

Östmark (S) AI:13 (1841-1845) Image 103 / Page 97, Kvarnbacken
as above,
son Par b 1815 is married with a daughter, Marie b 1843
Ingeborg b 1824 is also married

on page 462, is Nils Jonsson b 1807 but he died 29 Apr 1842 Östmark Kvarnbacken
- his wife Ingeborg Olsdotter, b 1805
oäkta son, Olof Nilsson b 27 Jul 1827
dau Maria, b 27 Feb 1834
Marit, b 22 Aug 1836
son Jon, b 12 Jun 1840
dau Karin, b 1842

Östmark (S) AI:14 (1846-1850) Image 21 / Page 17, Kvarnbacken
Jon Nilsson, b 1778, wife Maria Parsdotter, b 1785
son Jon, b 1818
Kjerstin, b 1827

son, Per Jonsson b 1816
and on page 23, Nils Jonsson's wife and his family

Östmark (S) AI:15 (1851-1855) Image 26 / Page 24, Kvarnbacken
Jon Nilsson b 1778 ; died 8 Mar 1852
wife, Maria Persdotter b 1785 -- in the next book, AI:16, p 33a,b, Kvarnbacken, she died 20 May 1859
daug Ingeborg and her family
dau Kjerstin and her family
son Per and his family
on the next page is son Nils Jonsson's widow and family - moves ⁸⁸²⁸

Jöns married Maria Persdotter in Östmark, Värmland län, Sweden.⁸⁸²⁶ (Maria Persdotter was born in 1785 in Östmark, Värmland län, Sweden ⁸⁸²⁹ and died on 20 May 1859 in Östmark, Värmland län, Sweden ⁸⁸²⁹.)