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Note: N111 Notes from Peter Weinrich's Descendancy Register for John Strachan
Elsa Luboff Hogberg
Elsa Luboff Hogberg was the daughter or Lars E. Hogberg and Eva Johansdotter. She was born in 1890 in Tabriz, Persia, returning to her native town of Nora, Orebro, Sweden some time in the next 18 years. She emigrated from there via Gothenberg and Hull, England on 4 September 1908 on the Calypso, heading for Fort William, Ontario.
She died of meningitis on 2 June 1917 and is buried in Port Arthur.
There is no record of her traveling with her parents to Canada, and it certainly seems unusual in 1908 for an 18 year old young woman to emigrate from Sweden to Fort William - her expressed destination - on her own. Nor is there any indication of why her parents were in Tabriz when she was born. Tabriz is, and was, one of the largest cities of Persia (now Iran) and for centuries the centre of the Persian rug and carpet trade, so perhaps her father was in the business [See entry for her father--he was a missionary.] However, a witness to her marriage is Hilda Hogberg who is obviously some relation which remains to be checked.
Nora is in central Sweden, a small town which even in 2005 had a population of only 6,500 people. It is one of a number of historic 'wooden' towns with cobbled streets and small wooden houses and shops. It is about 270 km from Gothenberg, the port she embarked from.
Swedish Emigration Records 1783-1951
Elsa Hogberg, born 1890, place of origin Nora, Orebro Lan, Sweden. Destination Fort will (sic) Ontario. Record date 4 Se[tember 1908, departure Goterberg. Archive call # 87:217:5247. And from the same data base: Elsa Hogberg, departure 4 September 1908 on 'Calypso'. Born 1890, birthplace Nora, age 18. Destination, Hull England.
Hilda Hogberg does not appear in the 1911 census of Canada; however Elsa is recorded as follows:
Ontario 1911 census for Port Arthur & Rainy River: St. Joseph's Hospital. Elsa Hogberg, pupil, born August 1885, age 26. Sweden, immigrated 1909. Lutheran.
This is very tantalising. There surely can't have been two Elsa Hogbergs in Port Arthur in 1911, yet neither her age nor date of immigration are correct. The immigration date is only a year out - but the age should be 21, so perhaps it is a misreading somewhere of 6 for 1. She was as the hospital studying to be a nurse, and her printed obituary [see below] says that she was a qualified nurse. It also adds that she had two stillbirths dring her four years of marriage. The same obit mentions something from her brother, E. Hogberg of Kamloops, but although the 1911 census has a few Swedish Hogbergs scattered across western Canada there is only one 'E' (Edwin) and he was only 5 years old.
In the Canadian Passenger lists, Quebec, May 1906 there is an E. Hogberg, age 17, arriving 18 May on the 'Victorian' at Montreal from Liverpool, a general labourer from Sweden, traveling steerage and heading for Harrowby [Manitoba]. This might be Elsa's brother, but after this he seems to disappear.
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Obituary of Mrs. W. J. STRACHAN
The death occurred at three o'clock this morning in the Railway, Marine and General Hospital, Port Arthur, of Elsie L., wife of W. J. Strachan, 1312 Cummings street, this city, secretary-treasurer of the Mahon Electric company. Mrs. Strachan was operated on two weeks ago for mastoids, and last Sunday had a further operation on the brain, from which she never recovered. Indeed, her case has been considered hopeless for some days.
Mrs. Strachan had been married for four years. She formerly lived in Port Arthur, being one of the first graduate nurses trained at the R.M. and G. Hospital. A brother, Edward Hogberg, now lives at north Kamloops [British Columbia], having removed there from Port Arthur, where he was in charge of the Central Tent and Awning works.
Mrs. Hogberg is survived by her parents and three brothers, living in Stockholm, Sweden, her father being a retired missionary who labored the best part of his life in central Asia.
Mr. Strachan's mother lives in Port Arthur and his wife's funeral will be held from her house, 88 north Hill street, and will be conducted by Rev. A. W. McIntosh. The services will probably be held on Monday afternoon, unless word is received from the brother in Kamloops that he wishes to be present. Mr. Strachan has three brothers, two of them, Melvin and Jack, being at the front, the latter of whom has won the military medal. Another brother, Russell, is with the engineering department of the Canadian Northern railway.
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