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1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Scotswood Road, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

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Household Members
First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Charles Nilsson Head Married Male 33 1858 Machine Repairer Fitter Sweden
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Catherine Nilsson Wife Married Female 24 1867 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
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Charles W Nilsson Son - Male 2 1889 - Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
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Kate Nilsson Daughter - Female 0 1891 - Newcastle, Northumberland, England

1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
15 Wharton St Gateshead, Gateshead, Durham, England

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Household Members
First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Occupation Age Birth year Birth place
Charles Nilsson Husband Married Male - - - -
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Catherine Nilson Wife Married Female - - - England
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Charles Nilsson Son Single Male - - - England
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Ellen Nilsson Daughter Single Female - - - England
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Lillian Nilsson Daughter Single Female - - - England
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Bernadena Nilsson Daughter Single Female - - - England

6 children born 4 living 2 died

NILSSON, BERNHADINE FELLOWS Order
GRO Reference: 1900 D Quarter in NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Volume 10B Page 58

Births Dec 1900 (>99%)
Nilsson Bernhadine Newcastle T. 10b 58

NILSSON, ALICE ELLEN FALLOWS Order
GRO Reference: 1895 D Quarter in GATESHEAD Volume 10A Page 850

Yorkshire Marriages Transcription
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First name(s) Catherine
Last name Fellows
Age 19
Birth year 1867
Marriage year 1886
Marriage date 13 Sep 1886
Marriage place Sheffield, All Saints, Brightside
Residence 730 Grimesthorpe Road
Father's first name(s) Richard
Father's last name Fellows
Spouse's first name(s) Charles
Spouse's last name Nilsson
Spouse's age 29
Spouse's residence 130 Grimesthorpe Rd
Spouse's father's first name(s) John
Spouse's father's last name Nilsson
County Yorkshire (West Riding)
Country England
Archive Sheffield Archives & Local Studies
Archive reference PR-43-2-2
Page 248
Record set Yorkshire Marriages
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Marriages & divorces
Collections from Great Britain

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charles is a fitter

NILSSON, LILLIAN ELIZABETH FELLOWS Order
GRO Reference: 1897 D Quarter in GATESHEAD Volume 10A Page 975

My great-grandmother, Lilian Elisabeth Nilsson 1897-1969, was born in Gateshead. Her father, Charles Nilsson was Swedish and a machine worker and fixer. He had 7 children born alive but only 4 living in 1911 (only 3 are listed on the census). I'm having difficulty find a mother for Lilian as on the 1911 census the mother is absent and a housekeeper is in her place. Their is Charles, the housekeeper, Lilian and her two sisters (Alice Ellen and Bernadina Annie) listed on the census. The three girls have their place of birth listed as Gateshead.

The confusion comes when I tried to go back and find a name for their mother on the 1901 census. I couldn't find anything for 1901. I did however find several other Swedish born Charles Nilsson/Nelson who list their occupation as machine worker/fixer (all roughly the same age) listed on different 1891 census'. This massively confused me as now I'm struggling to find which family Lilian belonged to. We also thought it was a bit coincidentle that 3 different men with different wives and homes all had the same name, were all Swedish and all roughly the same age living in the same area of the north east. Am I reading too much into it or could it be the same man?

I'm also struggling to find a birth record for Bernadina Annie in the U.K. However I did find one for an Anne Bernadina in Sweden at the time of Bernadina's birth so I am confused here too.

The only person alive on that side of my family is my mother and she hasn't a clue about any of it, she had always thought that Lilian (her grandmother) was born and and raised in Sweden and then moved to the north east as an adult but she recalls her mother saying that Lilian lived in Sweden and almost married into Swedish royalty until she met her husband and moved to England. Lots of embellishment obviously but we're all totally clueless now!!

Any insight or help with ANY of this at all would be brilliant.

Thank you.
Kelsey