The Goodmanson (Gudmundsson) family

I

Lars Haraldsson b. ca. 1720, m. to  Britta Månsdotter on May 26, 1723, lived in Åker, Södra Unnaryd, County of Halland

Children:

Harald, b. March 18, 1739

II

Harald Larsson b. March 18, 1739, d. December 25, 1798, m. on June 15, 1766 to Maria Gudmundsdotter b. 
March 1, 1747, lived in Åker, Södra Unnaryd, County of Halland

Children:

Anders b. September 17, 1771

III

Anders Haraldsson b. September 17, 1771, m. on December 12, 1798 to Maria Andersdotter b. August 11, 1770, lived in Karsnäs Södra, Södra Unnaryd, County of Halland

Children:

Maria b. September 5, 1799
Anders b. September 15, 1801
Lars b. May 25, 1803
Gudmund b. February 1, 1806
Harald  b. January 4, 1811

IV

Gudmund Andersson, b. February 1, 1806  d. July 7, 1860. m. 1) on December 5, 1824 to Maria Olofsdotter  b. March 22, 1798, d. 1841  2) on July 10, 1841 to Katrina Mårtensdotter b. January 13, 1821. Lived in Småöja, Södra Unnaryd, County of Halland

Children by his 1st wife:

Jöns  b. January 4, 1825
Anna  b. May 16, 1829 
Johannes b. November 8, 1832
   
Children by his 2nd wife:

Peter Magnus b. July 13, 1844
Susanna b. March 5, 1845
Aurora b. November 1, 1850, emigrated to the US on May 5, 1882 (?), married to NN Swanson Child: Roger Swanson
Albertina b. Dec 4, 1852
Eva b. Nov 24, 1854
Peter Aron b. February 21, 1857
Karolina b. June 24, 1859 d. June 30, 1864  

V

Peter Aron Gudmundson (Goodmanson) b. February 21, 1857 in Småöja, Södra Unnaryd, Halland County (Småland), Sweden, d. November 28, 1935 in Joliet, Will County, Illinois, USA, m. in Sweden on August 12, 1883 to Eva Larsdotter, a farmer's daughter from Färda, Södra Unnaryd.                                   

Peter and his two daughters emigrated to the US in 1888 after Eva died (probably in 1887 or 1888) and changed his last name to Goodmanson. At the time of their emigration they were registered in the village of Almesjö Lilla, Södra Unnaryd, County of Halland (Småland). Peter Aron, Elsa and Anna Charlotta  left Gothenburg for Chicago on March 16, 1888.   

In 1892, at the age of 35, he visited Sweden. On May 10, 1892 he travelled back to Joliet via Gothenburg and Liverpool and arrived in New York on May 23 on S/S Alaska.

Peter Aron may have visited Sweden again seventeen years later.. A person by that name left Gothenburg on January 5, 1909 and arrived in New York on January 18 on S/S Carmania from Liverpool, England.

   Children:
             
           Anna Charlotta b. February 23, 1884
         Elsa b. February 15, 1886 

Peter Goodmanson and his grandchildren
	Peter Goodmanson's house in Joliet, IL
Peter Goodmanson's daughters, Elsie and Charlotte

VI  Elsa (Elsie) Goodmanson b. February 15, 1886, d. 1961?  m. to Joseph W. Johnson, b. March 6, 1884, d. December 10, 1940.   

           Children:

        Stanley  b. November 9, 1915
          Gordon  b.  February 25, 1926  d. January 16th, 2005   

VII

Stanley Peter Johnson b. November 9, 1915 m. to Genevieve Lorraine Anderson, b. November 4, 1916, d. June 22, 2008, lives in Joliet, IL.

          Children:

        Tom   b. 1942
        Donald  b. 1947
        Jane b. 1952

VIII

See the main page for the descendants of Tom, Donald and Jane Johnson.