1858 - 1938

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• Birth	1 Oct 1858	Stubbängen Munkfors, Ransäter, ____, Värmlands Län, Sweden
  Gender	Female
  Religion	Swedish Methodist Episcopal
  Occupation	Homemaker
  Emigration	22 Oct 1880
  	from Värmland, Sweden aboard ship Angola
  Immigration	Aft 23 Oct 1880
  Immigration	Abt 1882
  	per 1920 census
  Naturalization	Abt 1890
  	per 1920 census
  1910 Census	23 Apr 1910	McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA
  	Ward 7 - McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA, ED 136, sheet 5B, w/Axel Lundstrum, age 50, b. Sweden, fb. Sweden, mb. Sweden, 2nd marriage, md. 0/12 years, 8 children, 8 living, as Charlotte Lundstrum
  1920 Census	2 Jan 1920	McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA
  	Ward 7 - McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA, ED 224, sheet 1B, w/Axel Landstrom, age 60, b. Sweden, fb. Sweden, mb. Sweden, as Charlotte Landstrom
  1930 Census	4 Apr 1930	Versailles, Allegheny Co., PA
  	Versailles Twp., Allegheny Co., PA, ED 846, sheet 3B, w/John Korp, age 71, b. Sweden, fb. Sweden, mb. Sweden, as Charlotte Korp, widow
  Died	1938	McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA
  Buried	Aft 1938	Versailles Cemetery - McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA
  Person ID	I18	Korp Family
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2005 00:41:00
  Father	Nils Persson, b. 19 Sep 1812, Ransäter, ____, Värmlands Län, Sweden
  Mother	Maria Håkansdotter, b. 13 Aug 1813, Ransäter, ____, Värmlands Län, Sweden
  Family ID	F9	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Jordan "John" Korp, b. 1 Oct 1854, Nore Bruk - Eda, ____, Värmlands Län, Sweden
  Married	24 Dec 1880	Worcester, Worcester Co., MA
  Children	1. Charles Edward Korp, b. 6 Sep 1881, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   2. Hilma Louisa Korp, b. 21 Aug 1882, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   3. Edith Korp, b. Dec 1882, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   4. Edith C. Korp, b. 14 Mar 1885, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   5. Agnes Constance Korp, b. 19 Dec 1886, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   6. Arthur Korp, b. 14 Aug 1888, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   7. John Victor Korp, b. 24 Nov 1889, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   8. Ruth Estelle Korp, b. 19 Nov 1890, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   9. Beda "Bertha" N. Korp, b. 25 Nov 1892, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   10. Albin W. Korp, b. 29 Jul 1893, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA   11. Mabel Korp, b. 7 Aug 1897, McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA   12. John Edward Korp, b. 21 Nov 1899, Christy Park, Allegheny Co., PA
  Documents		Marriage record for John Korp and Charlotta Nilsson as recorded in Worcester, Massachusetts
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2005 20:14:00
  Family ID	F7	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Axel Landstrom, b. Abt Jul 1858, ____, ____, ____, Sweden
  Married	Aft 1908	McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA
  Last Modified	01 Nov 2005 18:49:00
  Family ID	F8	Group Sheet

• Event Map

  Event Married 24 Dec 1880 Worcester, Worcester Co., MA Married Aft 1908 McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA 1910 Census 23 Apr 1910 McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA 1920 Census 2 Jan 1920 McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA Died 1938 McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA




• Notes

  Charlotta NILSDOTTER (or NILSSON) was born on October 1, 1858 in the town of Ransäter in Värmland in Sweden to Nils PERSSON and Maria HÅKANSDOTTER. Swedish records usually record her name as NILSDOTTER; however, she was listed as NILSSON on the Swedish emigration record. In the United States her surname was seen in various records in Massachusetts as NEILSON, NEISDOFFER (NILSDOTTER?), and NELSON. In her later years she always spoke of it in the anglicized form NELSON. When she first got to Worcester, she used the forename Charlotta, but gradually she seems to have anglicized it to Charlotte. I have no information on her baptism. In the United States, she was a devout follower of the Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church. In October 1880 she emigrated from Sweden to Worcester, Massachusetts, where either by chance or, more likely, by prior arrangement she met and was married to John KORP in Worcester in December 1880 by the Rev. Albert Ericson. She emigrated from the town of Munkfors on the Klarälven river in Värmland via Christiana, Norway to the United States on the ship the S.S. Angola. She and John lived and raised a family in Worcester until about 1896 when they moved to McKeesport, Pennsylvania which has been the KORP family's home ground since. John KORP died in about 1908 leaving Charlotte with eight children from ages 8 to 26. Although some of the older girls were working, she probably found it necessary or desireable to remarry. About 1909 or 1910 she married a newly widowed Axel LANDSTROM who also worked in the steel mills in McKeesport, and who himself had four children, including a five year old boy. Charlotte raised not only her own children but Axel's children. Axel died about 1925. Charlotte continued to live in McKeesport until her death at her home at 1808 Fremont St. in 1938 in her 80th year. She is also buried at Versailles cemetery in McKeesport. Charlotte has been described to me as a beautiful woman, not tall, and maybe a little plump. She kept her hair very long and wore it in a braid on the top of her head. She had a number of fancy combs which she wore in her hair. Sources: 1. Kinship Center, Karlstad, Sweden: Stubbängen, Munkfors film GV 9; Emigrant registration S9-1880-53; Emigrantprotokoll K373 1880,    #7960. 2. Interviews with Eleanor Blair and Mabel Wivagg, 1990. 3. Mass Vital Records: Vol. 318, p. 369 (1880). 4. US Federal Census - 1910: McKeesport, PA.