Descendants of Sven ERIKSSON

Fifth Generation

13. Anna Ulrika SELLSTROM (Sven SELLSTROM , Sven JONSSON , Joh SVENSSON , Sven ) was born on 17 Jan 1841 in Harnosand, Sweden.

Anna moved to Ramsele in 1864 and married Daniel Edlund in 1866 they then moved to Stockholm to Katarina parish in 1892. They were very rich as he was a watch maker.

Anna married Daniel Petter EDLUND in 1866 in Ramsele. Daniel was born about 1826 in Sabra, Sweden.

They had the following children:

	26	M	i	Sven Petter Helmer EDLUND was born on 7 Jul 1867. He died on 7 Jul 1868.
	27	M	ii	Helmer Georg EDLUND was born on 2 Apr 1869. He died on 2 Apr 1874.
	28	F	iii	Frida Ulrika EDLUND was born on 29 Jul 1870 in Hernosand, Sweden.
	29	M	iv	Nils Hans Reinold EDLUND was born on 18 Jan 1872. He died on 29 Feb 1872.
	30	M	v	Karl Alexander EDLUND was born on 18 Jan 1874 in Hernosand, Sweden.
	31	F	vi	Alida Gotilda EDLUND was born on 23 Aug 1876 in Hernosand, Sweden.
	32	F	vii	Elin Alfhilda Maria EDLUND was born on 11 Oct 1877 in Hernosand, Sweden.
	33	M	viii	Emil Walter EDLUND was born on 17 Nov 1881 in Hernosand, Sweden.
	34	F	ix	Augusta Kristina Eloenora JANSSON was born about 1877 in Hernosand, Sweden. Orphan Child

14. Sven Laurentius SELLSTROM [image] (Sven SELLSTROM , Sven JONSSON , Joh SVENSSON , Sven ) was born on 12 Nov 1842 in Harnosand, Sweden.

Left home with his brother Hans and joined a ships crew, the ship being named the Peter Dickssen 13 October 1860. Sven absconded from the ship on 3 March 1861. Sven Sellstrom married Jane Watt 15 August 1864 Falkirk, Stirling, Scotland. Sometime after 1877 he left Scotland and arrived in South Australia where he worked as a Sailmaker he met Jane Mansfield nee Reed and they resided in the village settlement at Gilles Street, Adelaide. Jane and Sven married 28 November 1883 at the minister's residence Hurtle Square Adelaide, in the presence of Hugh Handley, occupation bootmaker residence Nelson Street Adelaide and Amelia Hubbard, occupation dressmaker residence Surflin Street Adelaide. Sometime after the birth of their son Andrew, Jane found out that Sven was already married and sent him packing. His reply was that he had been seperated from his first wife for over 5 years. Jane replied "things are not done like that here" The last she heard from him was a letter he sent from Melbourne offering to send money for Andrew. Sven called himself Sven Laurentine Sellstrom but on his birth certificate he was Sven Laurentius Sellstrom.
May have arrived in Port Lincoln.
Departed Australia May 1893 for Bremen via Ports

Sven married (1) Jane WATT daughter of Alexander WATT and Elizabeth GRAHAM on 15 Aug 1864 in Falkirk, Stirling, Scotland. Jane was born on 4 May 1828 in Grangemouth, Stirling, Scotland. She died ¹ in 1889 in Grangemouth, Stirling, Scotland.

1881 census:
Address: South Charlotte Street, Falkirk, Stirling, Scotland
Occ: Draper

They had the following children:

+	35	M	i	Sven Laurentine SELLSTROM
	36	M	ii	Alexander Watt SELLSTROM was born on 25 Apr 1867 in Falkirk, Scotland. Occupation:Grocer apprentice in 1881 census
	37	M	iii	Anders Petters SELLSTROM was born on 28 Apr 1871 in Bothkennar, Stirling, Scotland. He died on 28 Aug 1876 in Grangemouth, Scotland.
+	38	M	iv	Thomas Richmond SELLSTROM

Sven married (2) Jane Elizabeth REED [image] daughter of William REED and Eliza PROUT on 28 Nov 1883 in Hurtle Square Adelaide. Jane was born ¹ about Sep 1854 in Camelford, Cornwall, England. She died on 20 May 1940 in 18 Anglo Avenue Parkside South Australia. She was buried in West Terrace Cemetry.

The following was found on the back of a photo of Jane it is written by my grandfather Andrew "My mother whom as a child with her parnets and grandparents came from Penzance Cornwall in 1856 in the sailing ship "Marion". Departed Plymouth 9 Sept 1856 arrived Pt Adelaide 19th January 1857 (more than three months on the sea). Parents William & Eliza Reed took up farming & named the property Delabole after a quarry in Cornwall.

They had the following children:

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Andrew Charles SELLSTROM

Sven married ¹ (3) Kate COY on 23 Oct 1888 in Wesley Church Parsonage, Melbourne, Australia. Kate was born in Galway, Ireland. She died in 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was buried in 1948 in Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.

19. Gunnar Laurentius SELLSTROM (Lars SELLSTROM , Sven JONSSON , Joh SVENSSON , Sven ) was born on 31 Jan 1887. He died on 20 Jun 1934.

Res: Sunne, Varmla
Occ: Headmaster

Gunnar married Living.

They had the following children:

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Living

25. Robert Arvid SELLSTROM (Erik Magnus SELLSTROM , Anders SELLSTROM , Joh SVENSSON , Sven ) was born in 1873 in Harnosand, Sweden. He died in 1910 in Nkomati River, Swaziland. The cause of death was Drowned while trying to cross the Nkomati River during the spring floods.

Disappeared around 1900, outside Port Elizabet, South Africa during the Boer War (1899-1902). but later surfaced in Swaziland. He made his way overland to Piet Retief, a South African town close to the Southern Swaziland border, where he worked as a painter/handyman at a mission station and met the Swazi Princess Cecilia Diamini. They moved to Swaziland and had a Swazi traditional wedding.

Robert married Princess Cecilia DIAMINI in Swaziland.

They had the following children:

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Affleck SELLSTROM was born in 1909. He died in 1986. Affleck, who was a distant cousin to the late King Sobhuza, was a leading representative of the Swazi Coloured community. In the 1930s, he founded the Swaziland Euro-African Welfare Association and in the early 1960s he represented Swaziland in (unsuccessful) independence negotiations with the British at Lancaster House in London. He had six daughters and two sons.

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