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Note: According to Geraldine Tripp (11/2005), Knute had a hard attack in the pantry at the homestead at 539 North Main St, Mansfeild, MA and died.
From Shirley (Brown) Day:
Knute was born on a farm named Weddesta; father working as a farmlaber (salary mostly paid in food and shelter. Today the supervisor's house is still left--Knut had probably had been in it.) The family move around, ending up in "South" Stockholm. From 1882-1899 he lived at several addresses, the last being Vermdogatan 57 A & 57 B. In 51D was a "friend", Alfreda. After his arrival in USA he sent for her to come and join him. She did, and lived with Knut and his mother until they were married. (Info from Lennart---and Aunt V. 9/98.
Left Gotenborg, Sweden 1899. Departed Liverpool England on "Cephalonia", arrived Sept. 1899 at Boston, MA. He had $5 with him. Lived with brother Ernest, at 148 Menlo, Brockton. 1900 Census shows him living with Carl Nordberg at Riverview St., Brockton. He is employed as a capola tender in an iron factory. Could not speak English. Listed as an alien.
Married in Brockton by Swante Moody, Clergyman of 5 Sheppard St., Brockton From City of Brockton Records, on document witnessed 9/18/47 by City Clerk. (Can't read signature)
From Brockton moved to Mansfield. 72 or 82 Charles Street (1910 Census) 485 Oakland St. (1920 Census) and then to 539 No. Main St. (1930 Census.)
Grandpa and all the Nordberg boys worked at Shields Foundry in Mansfield. They had a Horseshoe League. Cousin Bill (W.A.Nordberg) said (9/98) he remembered coming home from school for lunch, and playing horseshoes as partner to Grandpa.
Conversation with Vera Cruickshank 9/98 after Knute came here from Sweden he wrote
Alfreida and asked her to come here, too. She did, and lived with Knute and his mother, Carolina. " Grandpa (Knute) drank on Friday."
He would occasionally take Gerri (Allard) Tripp to Jack's Cafe in Mansfield, where he stood her on the counter. She recited nursery rhymes and received pennies from the patrons. (Conversation with Gerri, June 2006.)
When grandma was a girl in Sweden--she said her father had a hansom cab and he used to drive people all over the city. When it was winter, he had big bear furs to put over her lap when she brought him his noon meal in a pail with a hot stone in the bottom of it. She said he would take the stone out of the pail and put it so she could warm her feet on it while he ate his lunch. She said her mother hadlots of flowrs in the summer and that she and her sister used to love the spring and summer celebrations and they would sing and dance. .. I wonder now, where did her father keep the horses when he wasn't driving the cab? Did they live on a small farm?or did they live in the city proper. What kind of people were her parents. How did she meet Grampa? " (From a letter from Geraldine Allard Tripp, 7/25/1992"
Records show K. born in Ljustero, in Roslagen, the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden. His last residence was Stockholm. Left Gothenburg 9/8/99 headed for Liverpool, England. On Sept. 12, 1899 boarded the Cephalonia, arriving Boston, MA. Sept. 1899. His destination was to brother, Ernst W., Menlo St. Brockton; brother paid passage. Knut was 20 at the time, had $10 when departed from Sweden. Info from Boston Passenger Lists Record (Ancestry.com) 2/11/2014 Got the notes below with 3 photos from Tommy Nystrom in Sweaden
I found that this pic of Knut wearing his Hammarby IF uniform is taken when he was a member of a rowing club that was founded 1893.
That club became a well known soccer club Hammarby IF that was founded in 1897 and the first Chairman was Carl Julius Sundholm! Who was married to Knuts sister Anna!
The second pic is Carl Sundholm and the third is Hammarby Rowing club around the year 1900 Carl Julius Sundholm is top row on the right!
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