Anders Johannesson was born on 2 May 1830 to Johannes Jönsson and Anna Andersdotter in Hulegården, Stråvalla, Halland, Sweden1. He was the second son, joining his older brother Johan Berndt (1828). Interestingly, he was born on the farm right next door to his future wife Anna Lena Henricsdotter2. It appears his parents were farm labourers rather than leasing the land at that point in time.
While living on the farm in Hulegården, Anders was joined by a sister Anna Lena (1833) who lived only two years dying from an unknown child disease15. Marta Lena (1834) was also born at Hulegårdgen3. Shortly after Anna Lena’s death, the family moved to Skattegården4where Samuel (1836) was born. Marta Lena only lived until she was three years old16and Samuel also died at three17, both passing in Skattegården. A few years after Samuel passed, another brother Magnus (1842) joined the family4.
While his parents remained in Skattegården7, Anders starting working on various farms in the Stråvalla parish. He moved to Hulegården in 18476as a labourer, back to Skattegården in 18494, returning to Hulegården in 18526, then to Kårra in 18575before moving to Hulegården in 1858 to work at Anna Lena’s mothers farm8,14. When he moved out on his own, the spelling of his last name changed from Johannesson to Johansson in the records and remained that way for the rest of his life6.
While working on the farm Anders must have reacquainted with Anna Lena, who was by then a young widow living a couple of farms over on her in-laws farm. On 19 November 1859, Anders and Anna Lena married12. Both Anna Lena and Anders are listed as living at the Hulegården farm with her mother for the birth of their daughter Anna Johanna on 5 January 186019, less than two months after the marriage. Unfortunately, this daughter only lived two days20. However, Anna and Anders Johannson did go on to have more children. Inger Lena (1861), Anna Johanna (1865) [as was quite common, they re-used a name of a child that had died], Sofia (1868)18and finally Johan Anton in 18749.
For the remainder of his life, Anders lived on the farm in Hulegården9,10,11. Although he lost Anna Lena to cancer on 2 April 1877, when the youngest was only three, he never remarried10,11. Anders died on 19 April 1911 from old age13.
Link to Anders Johansson in genealogy.
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