Double Royal Wedding Anniversery

June 19 is the wedding anniversery for both King Carl XVI Gustaf and his wife Silvia, and their daughter Victoria and husband Daniel. Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia were married in 1976 and Victoria and Daniel in 2010. 

Carl XVI Gustaf met Silvia Somerlath at the olympics in Munich 1972. "It just said klick" the couple said when they told the press and the world about how they met and fell in love. They got married in Stockholm Cathedral, with 1200 guests, and the press followed every move. It was the first Swedish royal wedding to be filmed and broadcasted live.

When Victoria and Daniel got married 34 years later a lot of parallels were drawn between the two weddings. It was the same date, it was the same cathedral and a lot of other ceremonies were the same. Again television followed every move and people who had witnessed the wedding 34 years earlier commented the event. The couple met when Victoria started going to the gym that Daniel owned and they started dating. 

Kings of Sweden by Ricardo Stuckert/PR - Agència Brasil

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Sources:
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http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/special/1900/70/kungen.html

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Wedding Wednesday - Jenny Winter and Osvald Johansson

These are my great grandparents Jenny and Osvald. They got married April 8, 1917 but I do not know where and I am also not sure how they met. Osvald moved from his parents' home in Krokek to Södertälje in 1913 where he is signed in as a sailor. In November 1916 he moves to Stavsjö just north of Norrköping where he works at the ironworks. Jenny Bernhardina Vinter moves to Stavsjö from her parents' home in Hyltinge. Their first son Birger is born in March 1918 and later that year the family moves to what used to be the old school. The building has been turned into living quarters for the workers at the ironworks. My grandfather was born her in 1920 and two years later a third son is born but he dies after just a month.

Jenny liked to sleep in and when she finally got up she went out to gossip with the neighbours. When it was time for Osvald to come home she went back to bed and claimed that she was feeling ill so Osvald did most of the house work. Osvald became involved in the workers union and I have written about him in an earlier blog post (http://yourswedishheritage.blogspot.se/2014/05/sundays-obituary-osvald-johansson.html).

My mother's cousin has fond memories of her grandmother. She remembers sleeping in and staying in bed for a great part of the day. My memories of my great grandmother is of an old woman with snow white hair sitting on the edge of her bed. I sure do know where I got my lazy gene.

Osvald died in 1966, 74 years old. Jenny lived in a small apartment in the same village as my grandparents for many years untill she moved to an old people's home where she died in 1989, 98 years old.


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Wordless Wednesday and Wedding Wednesday

This photo comes from my grandfathers collection but I have no clue who the people in the picture are. Neither is there any information about the photographer Noak Jönsson, only one more photo by him in Porträttfynd.

According to Bröllopsguiden, the folk costume went out of fashion towards the end of the 19th century and people started looking more at how the nobility dressed. Since common people could not afford to own a lot of dresses they needed one that could be used for more than one occation so therefor the dress was black up until the 1920's. The bride started carrying a boucet towards the end of the 19th century so we can pin the photo to have been taken somewhere between 1850 and 1920 so far. Wikipedia says that the men held the bouqet from the 18th century and it was not until 1888 that the women held and chose the bouqet so now we have trimmed of almost 40 years. So the picture was taken between 1888 and 1920. The man is wearing a frock coat and those were common up until around 1920 as well.

I am afraid that I will not get any further with this picture but I will keep my eyes open for more information on the photographer.

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Wedding Wednesday - A Gold Anneversy

Last Sunday I wrote about August and Elin Nilsson's obituaries, today I will write about their Gold Anniversary. 15 February 1952 August and Elin had been married for 50 years. They had during their years as married gone from a small farm to having a proper farm of their own. Out of nine children seven were still alive when they celebrated their anniversary and one of their sons had taken over the farm. Five sons and four daughters gave them several grandchildren.

 There are not many pictures of August and Elin apart from some newspaper clippings, unlike my grandmother's other uncles and aunts whom there are several photos of. August and Elin lived farther from the other siblings and their families and that could have affected their relationship.