Matilda Josephine Carlsson
7 June 1863 - 1 August 1944
Vitals
Birth
7 June 1863
Halland
Death
1 August 1944
Place Unknown
Burial
1944
Place Unknown
Alternate Names
Given Name
Matilda Josephine
Given Name Alternate Spellings
Mathilde, Kirstine, Matilda
Last Name
Carlsson
Maiden Name Alternate Spellings
Karlsen, Larsen, Carlson, Carlson, Nielsen, Hansen, Carlsen, Olsen, Carlsdotter, Coilson
Married Names
Farse, Mathiesen, Larsen
Family
Marriages
Children
No Given Name:
4 December 1894 -
Place Unknown
Parents
Mother: No Known Records
Father: No Known Records
Biography
Matilda was a middle child with two older siblings and four younger. She married a man named Farse in Sweden at the age of 20. They went on to have a daughter together. Not much is known what happened to Farse or their daughter, Bertha, but they don’t show up in later records. Matilda would go on to be married three more times. After immigrating to Utah in 1893, she married Lars Peter Christian Nielsen who had recently become a widower. They had one child together, but she passed away within a year. Lars had another plural wife, but it is unknown if they were married before or after he and Matilda. In 1922, He passed away and Matilda moved to Cache where she married James Nephi Southwick, another recent widower. They moved to Idaho and he passed away 10 years later. Records show Matilda was also married to George Lundberg at some point, but not when or where. She passed away in 1944 at age 81.
Events
Emigration
Departure: 10 August 1893
Copenhagen
Baptism
19 November 1892