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This line of Enholm family history begins with Sigfreid Frans Enholm: his immigration to the U.S., the family he started in America, and his ancestors in Sweden. Ongoing research, photos, documents, and family interviews will add to this website continually. These records and memories are presented with the aim of discovering the personalities and circumstances of our ancestors, with respect to the lives of those who came before us.
sigfreid frans enholm
Sigfried Frans Enholm immigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1924. After the death of his firstborn baby, Sigfried parted from his wife, boarded a ship and set sail from the port of Goteberg, Sweden. His destination was Quebec, Canada. Once the Swedish Sigfied arrived he made his way from the East coast to the West coast of the United States, to Aberdeen in Washington State. It is not yet known why Aberdeen was chosen as the place to make a new home; however there was an Enholm (indexed as Nion Enholm but may have been mispelled) living in Aberdeen at this time who may have been a relative.
A year passed, and we can assume that Sigfried was working to save money, as his wife Frida left the same port in Sweden; Goteborg, to join Sigfreid in Aberdeen in 1925. A couple of years later Sigfreid's younger brother David August Enolm makes the journey from Sweden and joins Sigfreid and Frida in Aberdeen.
Sigfreid and Frida lived in Hoquiam and Aberdeen, both towns within the county of Grays Harbor, for the remainder of their lives. Sigfried worked as a logger, a carpenter, and later in life as a janitor at the Becker Building. He also enjoyed reading Western novels in his free time. Frida worked at home raising the children (two of whom died at a young age), and from stories passed down we know that she made the children's clothing and crafted home made toys. Frida is remembered by her grandchildren to speak to them in her native language. An assumption can be made that Sigfreid and Frida were religious, as some of their children became lifelong Christians.
Photo: Sigfreid Frans Enholm, top row far right,
others are possibly wife and children (left to right)
top row: Inga or Mildred, Harold, Frida
bottom row: Frank, Barbara, and Roy.
Hoquiam or Aberdeen, WA, USA
circa 1940
As for Sigfreid's brother, David, there is research to be done to learn more of his story. David married, and sent wedding pictures to relatives in Sweden. A family story passed down is that some years after they settled in Aberdeen, David drank an abundance of alcohol during a Thanksgiving family gathering, and threw up on the turkey. Sigfried threw his drunken brother out of the house and it seems that their relationship was strained from this point on.
Photo: David August Enholm, wife unknown
Hoquiam, WA, USA
Espedal Studio
circa 1930
Following are document transcripst for Sigfreid, David, and Frida Enholm, and then the story of their father, Frans Enholm, who was a baker in Sweden.
enholm transcripts
Emmigration Records from the Emihamn database of CD Emigranten (Emigrant CD)
First Name: Frans Sigfrid (emigrants often had the order of their first and middle names inverted after immigrating to the US)
Last Name: Enholm
Age: 30
Gender: M
Parish: Overlulea (record keeping church)
County: BD (Norbotten)
Title/Note: F Pitea (born in Pitea)
Port: Goteborg
Date (of registration with authorities to leave country): 20 September 1924
Destination: Quebec
Fellows: NEJ
Source: 113:851:3351Emmigration Records from the Emihamn database of CD Emigranten (Emigrant CD)
First Name: Frida
Last Name: Enholm
Age: 30
Gender: K (Kvinna+female)
Parish: Overlulea (record keeping church)
County: BD (Norbotten)
Title/Note: Husarb
Port: Goteborg
Date (of registration with authorities to leave country): 25 August 1925
Destination: Hoquiam
Fellows: NEJ
Source: 16:337:39267First Name: David August
Last Name: Enholm
Age: 29
Parish: Pitea
Date (of registration with authorities to leave country): 25 July 1928
Port: Gothenburg Destination: New York, US
Source: 3rd party look up in Emigrant CD
frans jonsson enholm
Frans Jonsson Enholm was born Frans Jonsson, and later legally changed his last name to Enholm. The family story passed down is that the common name of Jonsson had Frans constantly recieving mistaken bills and mail, indeed it was becoming modernized for Swedes of common last names to adopt one of distinction. Frans was born on the isle of Enholmen (or along the peninsula that connects to Enholmen during lowtide), and this is possibly why he chose the last name Enholm.
Photo: House in winter on the inlet of Enholmen, Sweden
In 1853, just 5 years before Frans was born, building of the 'Enholmen batteries' began on the island. After being attacked on several occasions by Denmark and Russia, Sweden began the building of this defense fortress. Frans' father, Elias Jonsson, was the owner of hardware store who lived in Varnamo, approximately 100 miles from the coast lining Enholmen (considerably close). Elias' business would have flourished during this time if he were involved in providing tools for the construction of the fortress.
Photo: Isle of Enholmen
Photo: Enholmen batteries (defense fortress)
In 1890, Frans appears newly married to Hilma Margareta Lundqvist in the same county (although different town) where Helena was born- Norbotten. Frans is 32 and Hilma is eleven years yonger at 21 years old. By this time Frans has established his title as a baker. The next year, 1891, Frans and Hilma are in another village (Alvsby) of the same County, where they have their firstborn of 10 children (possibly 11 children as there is another David August Enholm who died at one month old that has yet to be verified through records as being Frans and Hilma's son). The next 7 children are born in the countryside of Pitea (Hilma's birthtown, where we can assume they lived near some of her family), between 1892 and 1901. It is known that Frans sold baked goods to stores, and can be assumed this was in Pitea as the 1900 family census shows his family as 'guests paying rent' in town. In 1902 they are in Langtrask where another son is born.
Langtrask may be where the family remains for decades, as Frans dies here nearly 40 years later at the age of 82. Helena dies six years after Frans at the age of 78.
Photo: (left to right)
parents: Helena Margareta Lundqvist Enholm, Frans Jonsson Enholm
back row: Sigfried Frans Enholm
middle row: Ebba Viktoria Enholm, David August Enholm, John Gunnar Enholm
front row: Sven Torsten Enholm and plausably Nils Gunnar Enholm.
circa 1908
Photographer: Amelie Lindqvist
Location: Langtrask, Sweden
enholm transcripts
- Source: family census, 1890, Sweden
Frans Enholm born 1858 Varnamo parish, Jonkoping County.
Title: Bagare (Occupation: Baker)
Residence: Byn, Elfsbyn parish, Norbotten County.
Hilma Margreta Lundqvist born 1869 in Pitea parish, Norbotten County.
Wife
Note: Frans is the only Enholm listed in Norbotten County in 1890.
- Source: Family Census, 1900, Sweden
Home Parish: Pitea stadsforsamling (town parish)
Domicile: Hyresgaster (Residence: guests paying rent)
County: Norbotten
Frans Enholm b. 1858 in Varnamo, Jonkoping County
Occupation: baker
Helena Margareta Lundqvist b. 1869 Pitea stadsforsamling (Pitea town)
Wife
Hulda Augusta b. 1891 Alvsby, Norbotten County
Ellen Maria b. 1892 Pitea landsforsamling (rural parish)
Frans Sigfrid b. 1894 Pitea landsforsamling (rural parish)
Signe Margareta b. 1895 Pitea landsforsamling (rural parish)
John Gunnar b. 1896 Pitea landsforsamling (rural parish)
Ebba Viktoria b. 1898 Pitea landsforsamling (rural parish)
David August b. 1899 Pitea landsforsamling (rural parish)
- Frans Jonsson Enholm b. August 25, 1858 d. February 19th, 1940 in Langtrask
- Nils Sigurd Enholm b. February 25, 1901 d. May 16, 1901 in Pitea stadsforsamling (in Pitea town)Lars Henrik Enholm (son of Signe Margareta Enholm) b. March 10, 1919 d. March 10, 1919 in Storlangtrask
- John Gunnar Enholm b. August 11, 1896 d. July 13, 1901 in Pitea stadsforsamling (in Pitea town)
- Nils Gunnar Enholm b. July 10, 1902 d. December 17, 1963 in Langtrask
- Hilma Margareta Enholm b. August 10,1868 d. June 7, 1946 in Ojebyn
- David August Enholm b. October 6, 1897 d. November 2, 1897 in Ojebyn
David Enholm
SS# 535*03*5664
Issue State: WA
Birth: 20 Nov 1899
Death: Jan 1962
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