Johanna's Cover Page

Johanna's Ancestors

On Feb 13, 2003, I (Mary C.C.Wiberg) wrote to Jan-Erik Åkesson asking:

Jan-Eric - Do you think the following letter [which had recently been translated] might have been written by Bengta's [Johanna's sister - see above] daughter? Did she have a daughter? She is writing the letter to Grandpa Sven who was in Sweden for most of 1934 conducting evangelistic meetings and had visited his siblings in February.

Eslöv,
June 3, 1934

Dear Cousin & Colonel S. V.!*

I beg to extend to you our dear, old Mother’s warm thanks for your attention on her 80th birthday.

At the same time, I want to take the opportunity to send a small remembrance of her on that day, done in my own studio.

Mother received 24 flower bouquets, telegrams, etc. on her birthday.

Mother has always been such a nice person that she has always made friends wherever she has gone.

Well, now I hope that God blesses her new year and all the time she has left.

Greetings,

Maria

* Wiberg can just as well be spelled Viberg---they would be pronounced the same, and if Maria never saw the name written, could easily think it was spelled with a “V”.

Jan-Eric thought the letter might have been mistranslated, but when I sent him the original Swedish letter he said it had not been mistranslated. So he went to Elsa (Torvald's wife) and Ernfrid (Johan's son) and found out that:

Partial letter dated Feb 28, 2003:

The woman who lived with Johanna and Ake Bengstsson was named Bengta. BUT, she was Ake's sister - not Johanna's. And she never got married or had children as far as we know.

The woman in Eslov who was 80 years old in 1934 was also named Bengta and she WAS sister of Johanna. This Bengta married a man called Anders Kristiansson and they had one boy, Karl, and two daughters, Maria and Anna. And these two women never got married but was very lovely and funny as Elsa told me. She and Torvald met them in 1954 at Johan's funeral and they started to meet now and then. Also my grandparents [Jan-Eric's grandparents, Emil and Frida] met them several times. Neither Elsa or Ernfrid know what happened to the son. He grew up as far as they know but they know nothing more.

Jan-Eric