See also

Family of Lawrence Akersten and Elizabeth Wilford

Husband: Lawrence Akersten

  • Name:

  • Lawrence Akersten

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Note:

  • Baptismal name in Sweden: Lars Åkersten

    With thanks and acknowledgements to Katarina Sohlborg for finding and supplying details of Lawrence Akersten's Swedish origins from the records of the Swedish parish church of Ulrika Eleonora in London.

  • Birth:

  • 15 Jun 1787

  • Stenshyttan, Sweden

  • Immigration:

  • 1804 (age 16-17)

  • to Arrived in England from Sweden

  • Occupation (1):

  • 25 Sep 1814 (age 27)

  • Mariner, 64 Ship's Walk, Shadwell (baptism of daughter Eliza)

  • Occupation (2):

  • 13 Oct 1822 (age 35)

  • Mariner, Albion Street

  • Census:

  • 1841 (age 53-54)

  • Rigger, Wapping Dock, Tower Hamlets ("Akersteen")

  • Death fact:

  • 1843 (age 55-56)

  • 1843 Jun Qtr, Stepney, 2/362

  • Death:

  • 9 Jun 1843 (age 55)

  • 13 Wapping Dock St, Wapping, Middlesex

  • Burial:

  • 15 Jun 1843

  • St John, Wapping (aged 55)

  • Occupation (3):

  • 4 Apr 1846 (age 58)

  • Stevedore (on son William's marriage cert.)

  • Occupation (4):

  • 20 Jul 1850 (age 63)

  • Mariner (on son Francis's marriage cert.)

Wife: Elizabeth Wilford

Note on Husband: Lawrence Akersten

Baptismal name in Sweden: Lars Åkersten

With thanks and acknowledgements to Katarina Sohlborg for finding and supplying details of Lawrence Akersten's Swedish origins from the records of the Swedish parish church of Ulrika Eleonora in London.