Johnson family

I am a Swedish woman who has been searching for facts about my ancestors John and Mary Johnson since 1980.

My great grandmother told me about her childhood in Lafayette. She also told me about her father whom she knew little about. He died when she was 6 ½ years old, so she had not been able to find out about his family and life in Sweden. She was 10 years old when her mother brought her and her siblings to Sweden, a country she just had heard of.

All her life she pronounced her name Agnes in the English way. When she died in 1984, I sat at her bed some hours before she fell asleep. Someone spoke English on the radio and I asked her if she understood. In English she answered: “Oh yes!”

Her stories made me become interested in genealogy. It took me 29 years to find out the answer for the question Agnes gave me: who was her father and where did he come from in Sweden? But even if I found who he was I am still, all this years after I began, interested to find out more about this family’s fate.