Hej:
On 15 May 1903, my Swedish ancestors emigrated from Avesta, Kopparberg län, to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Avesta was listed on the Göteborg emigration CD as their last parish residence in Sweden.
What was Avesta like around the turn of the century? Where there many people from this area leaving for North America?
The family consisted of the following five members:
Johannes Largus Teodor PALMQVIST, (b. 2 April 1863, Martebo, Gotland län). - poliskonstapel.
Aqvilina Matilda Elizabet PALMQVIST (nee LINDQVIST), (b. 23 July 1864, Katarina, Stockholm stad).
son - Adolf Johannes Sigismund PALMQVIST, (b. 16 April 1887, Johannes, Stockholm stad).
son - Bernhard Teodor Mathias PALMQVIST, (b. 13 May 1892, Västerås, Västmanland län).
daughter - Cecilia Elizabet L. PALMQVIST, (b. 1895
Sweden).
Cecilia may have been born in either Västerås or in Avesta.
Does this family appear in the Avesta census records?
Tack så mycket.