Anders G Hogström

Anders G Hogström and Mrs Jean D. Hogström were at 7 St Bernard’s Row 1928 to 1930.¹ He was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1891, son of Anders Petter Hogström, a school janitor, and Ingrid Christina Anderson.² In 1913 he was an assistant chemist in Duns, Berwickshire and he registered as a chemist and druggist in January 1921.³ Later that year was recorded in the census working as a chemist for John T. Coats & Co.⁴ When he admitted embezzling £3 18s 6d from his employer at the Edinburgh Police Court on 02 September 1926 he was fined and lost his job.⁵

Anders G. Hogström married Jean Donaldson at Duns, Berwickshire on 06 June 1913.⁶ She was born on 24 April 1889 daughter of John Donaldson, a joiner, and Elizabeth Aiton.⁷ They were living at 1 Albion Road, Edinburgh by 1915, when A. G. Holstrom advertised violin and piano lessons,⁸ and remained at that address until 1927. Jean Donaldson or Hogstrom died in Sweden on 05 August 1983.⁹

Five years before she married, Jean Donaldson, a dressmaker, had an illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth, born on 23 November 1908.¹⁰ The father was Walter Elliot, an engineer in Duns.¹¹ In the 1921 census this daughter, then aged 12, was recorded as Elizabeth Hogstrom.¹² She married Leslie Stuart Prentice in 1926¹³ and was listed with him at 7 St Bernard’s Row in the electoral register 1928-1930. She died in 1934.¹⁴

Anders G. Hogstrom and Jean Donaldson had a daughter, Ingrid Jean Hogstrom, born in 1919.¹⁵ She would have been around ten years old when her parents and married sister lived at 7 St Bernard’s Row (1928-1930). She married Arne Låftman in Sweden in 1945.¹⁶

1. Electoral Registers 1928-29 and 1929-30.
2. Marriages (SR) Scotland. Duns, Berwickshire. 06 June 1913. HOGSTROM, Anders Gunnar and DONALDSON, Jean. 735/ 6. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 19 January 2024.
3. ‘Pharmaceutical Society Examinations.’ The Scotsman. 13 January 1921. p. 6, col. 4. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 19 January 2024.
4. Census records. Scotland. Edinburgh. 19 June 1921. HOLSTROM, Anders G. (Head). 685/3 31/ 3. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 17 August 2024.
5. ‘Embezzlement by Leith Manager.’ The Scotsman. 03 September 1926. p. 5, col. 2. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 19 January 2024.
6. Marriages (SR) Scotland. Duns, Berwickshire. 06 June 1913. HOGSTROM, Anders Gunnar and DONALDSON, Jean. 735/ 6. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 19 January 2024.
7. Births index (SR) Scotland. Duns, Berwickshire. 1889. DONALDSON, Jane. 735/ 30. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: 19 January 2024.
8. Advertisements. The Scotsman. 14 May 1915. p. 11, col. 7; and Edinburgh Evening News. 17 May 1915. p. 2, col. 9. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 17 August 2024.
9. Monumental inscriptions. Sweden. Norra Begravningsplatsen, Solna, Stockholms län. HÖGSTRÖM, Jean. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/254589443/jean-h%C3%B6gstr%C3%B6m: accessed 17 August 2024.
10. Births (SR) Scotland. Duns, Berwickshire. 23 November 1908. DONALDSON, Jane. 735/ 60. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 17 August 2024.
11. Births (RCE) Scotland. Duns, Berwickshire. 11 January 1909. DONALDSON, Jane. RCE 735/ 00 002 77. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 17 August 2024.
12. Census records. Scotland. Edinburgh. 19 June 1921. HOLSTROM, Anders G. (Head). 685/3 31/ 3. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 17 August 2024.
13. Marriages index (SR) Scotland. Canongate, Edinburgh. 1926. PRENTICE, Leslie Stuart and HOGSTROM, Elizabeth. 685/3 401. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 11 October 2022.
14. Deaths index (SR) Scotland. Morningside, Edinburgh. 1934. PRENTICE or HOGSTROM, Elizabeth. 685/7 266. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 11 October 2022.
15. Births index (SR) Scotland. Canongate, Edinburgh. 1919. HOGSTROM, Ingrid Jean. 685/3 425. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 16 August 2024.
16. Marriages index (PR) Sweden. Oscar, Stockholm. 31 December 1947. LAFTMAN, Arne and HOGSTROM, Ingrid Jean. Ancestry collection ‘Sweden, Indexed Marriage Records, 1860-1947.’ https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 17 August 2024.