Saturday 8 November 2003

Scandinavian heritage

It's official, I'm one-eighth Swedish.  I've known for many years that my great-grandfather came from either Sweden or Finland, but today I received my grandmother's birth registration details and found out more about him.  His name was Simon Hanson and he was born in Gothenburg in about 1863.  I don't yet know when he came to New Zealand, but he married in Temuka, South Canterbury, in 1898.

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