Friends or relatives - Friday's Faces from the Past

Every now and then I look trough my collection of scanned old photographies. Most of them belonged to my great grandfather Nils Anton Berlin and great grandmother Hanna Persson in Farstorp so probably they are a mix of their relatives and friends on their both family lines. And no, no notes of names anywhere, I mean, they were fully aware of who all these people were.

When looking I usually notice some new detail. I try to figure out by the clue of how many people there are on the picture, male/females, children and age what family it might be.

So, there are a some people that appears in more than one photo and today I am looking at two specific photos. One is of five men in uniform. One of them,  I think is a brother of my great grandmother.

Then there is this other man who appears on other pictures as well in uniform. Now I am thinking that he might be the same man that also appears on other photos that are more like family group photos.

Man in the middle might be my great-grandmothers brother. The man to the left, who is he?

The man in the back to the right, who is he?

So, is it possible that those two men are one and the same? 5-10 years of time difference between the photos perhaps. The lips, nose and ears looks pretty much the same I think.

Same man?

Now, if it happens to be the same man, then who is he? A relative or a good friend someone got to know when being in the military? A neighbor? 

And the children on the second picture, are they siblings?  I haven't found any relative that had seven children, five girls and two boys. Or, they could be cousins or even not related at all.

Anyhow, there are plenty of people in the pictures, meaning there would probably be more copies of those pictures. Perhaps even with names on it. 

Lots of questions still waiting for answers, they joy of genealogy - endless problem solving.

Have a nice Friday!

Military Monday - Jöns Torkelsson Berlin

Jöns Torkelsson Berlin was my greatgreatgrandfather. He was born on February 11, 1850 in Farstorp. His parents were Torkel Görtz and Kersti Nilsdotter. In 1868, August 29, he joined the cavalry, 18 years old.

Part of the document where Jöns signs up for the cavalry in 1868.

March 5, 1886 he married Else Månsdotter. They got married in Vinslöv where Else was born. Else then moved to Farstorp and the lived at Luhr 4. They had four children, Emma Christina (b March 2 1887), Nils Anton (b December 6 1888 (my great-grandfather), Anna (b December 24 1890) and Emil Anton (b February 28 in 1893). Else died when Emil Anton was only 25 days old. She was 31 years young.

When Jöns joined the cavalry, he got the soldier name Berlin. He was at Livskvadtonen, Kunliga Skånska Husarregementet. He stayed with the cavalry until September 21 in 1900 when he retired, 50 years old. He had been in the cavalry for 32 years. He got graded "excellent well"

Jöns Berlin, retiredocument from 1900

This is a picture that belonged to my greatgrandfather. It is possible that Jöns Berlin is one of the people in the picture. Ljungbyhed is where they had thier training.

Jöns Torkelsson Berlin, my greatgreatgrandfather
might be on this picture.

Jöns died April 5 in 1929, in Farstorp.