What is the complete translation for the note found on this Household Exam?
Ida Wilhelmina Ollén, born 14 March 1872 has a note on the right hand side of the page that she was married 7 January 1893 to Karl Gustaf Wilhelm Tenggren in Russia. What is the word before K.G.W. and where were they married in Russia?
Thanks for your help. I have another family member, Swedish, who was married in St. Petersberg, Russia. Was this common around that time?
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Hello #[Darlene Johnson Barker] ,
The word before K. G. W. (Karl Gustaf Wilhelm ) is Ingeniör for engineer. The place in Russia has been hard to find. I read it as Avsjar Petrovsk , Oren. (might be for Orenburg which is an Oblast in Russia. The page in Wikipedia says Orenburg Oblast was established in 1934 but I found it in a world gazetteer from 1880, see tiny url https://tinyurl.com/2tdf8ych), the next letters might be an abbreviation for grv. (for gruva meaning mine), Ryssland (Russia). I checked the 1820 – 1947 household examination database to see if the place name was written clearer somewhere else. I saw that 4 of their children were born in Russia (see Söderala (X) AIIa:11 (1906-1915) Image 2510 / Page 238 and 2 of their children Carl Folke and Vera Vilhelmina have more specific birthplace information, see Degerfors (T) AIIa:1 (1901-1909) Image 4320 / Page 424. Carl’s birthplace looks like Osianski Savod, and Vera Vilhelmina’s looks like Komorovo grufva (which might be Komarovo that is a mining area near St. Petersburg). I have reached out to a Russian specialist at the Family History Library to find a lead on Osianski Savod but we haven’t found anything yet.
As far as Swedes in Russia, I think the biggest factors were family connections and occupations. If a family had ancestors or relatives in Russia, then they might have traveled or lived there for a time. In this case, Karl Gustaf Vilhelm Tenggren is a mining engineer and both he and his wife were born in Sweden. He might have been drawn to Russia by business contacts, or company connections. Out of curiosity I ran a search in the Population of Sweden 1820 – 1947 database in ArkivDigital for all people born in Russia. There are 12,198 entries in a database that has about 152.5 million entries.
As far as other people getting married in St. Petersburg, I think it was unusual. Most people married at a home parish where family and friends could attend and celebrate.
Hope this helps,
Geoff
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