Joy Kersteter via wrote 2014-08-07 06:05: > > Malmöhus Västerstad Husförhör (Household examination) 1878 - 1887 > (AI:32) Page 306 Västerstads Gård > > For Holmqvist Bengt Nilsson, I need help reading the comments > (it says something about his wife, and then penciled below is > “Amerika”, and then the comment for the destination. > (He went to Amerika in May 1883 - shortly after the death of their son) "Skiljd fr. hustrun 10/11 86" = divorced from the wife 10 Nov 1886. "I Amerika" = in America. "Till nya längd" = to the next volume. In the next volume he is found on the page for people without fixed address, with the same remarks. Västerstad AI:33 (1888-1894) Image 490 (AID: v110343.b490, NAD: SE/LLA/13469) He is still a missing person in Swedish Census 1900: Nilsson Holmqvist, Bengt Jordbruksarbetare [farm worker] b. 1860 in Öved (Malmöhus län, Skåne) Man, divorced Kvarstående obefintliga sedan åren 1891-1900 Västerstad (Malmöhus län, Skåne) Absent when registering Deleted from the roll ------------------------ // Bo Johansson