Windh/Freise/Maurstad genealogy - Person Sheet
Windh/Freise/Maurstad genealogy - Person Sheet
NameTure Valfrid KARLSSON
Birth7 May 1916
Death8 May 1970, Höör, Skåne, Sweden
Educationfoster son
ReligionClick Ture’s name for NOTES and camera icons for PHOTOS.
OccupationHis birth mother may be Jenny Karlsson Johansson of N. Rörum
FatherOlander Persson WINDH (1852-1934)
MotherCecilia SVENSDOTTER (1855-1937)
Misc. Notes
Ture is called a "foster son" in church records books in Norra Rorum. Clayton Person called him an “adopted son.”
See the NOTES under Selma Maria Windh for how Ture treated her late in their lives. Another account describes Ture as a “no-good, lazy person who didn’t work and became a ward of the state.”
In a 1976 letter, Lloyd Person recalled meeting Ture's mother and her sister, both of whom he said were illegitimate. That mother was Jennie Karlsson, who may have later been married and known as Jennie Johansson. There was a Jennie Karlsson living in Norra Rörum in 1976 but John Windh couldn't find her at home. Her dad may have been a cousin of Sven Windh.
When Ture was still a small boy, according to Lloyd, Ture's mother was jailed after killing three of her illegitimate children. So at that time Olander and Cecilia began to raise Ture. He appears in several old family photos; they must have been taken before 1921 since they include Sven Windh who left in that year. Olander and Cecilia may have formally adopted Ture, which might explain why, in Sven's opinion, Ture kept too many family artifacts for himself after Maria died in 1957 and sent Sven only a few small items of minor significance. A court document shows that at her death Maria left an estate of over 10,000 Swedish crowns and a quantity of furniture and household items. Apparently she left all those possessions to Ture, whom she called her "faithful hired man." He apparently lived with Maria until her death in 1957 and perhaps until 1968 (see below).
Clayton Person visited Maria in 1955 and met Ture. He noted that Ture was then about 40, “unemployed and unemployable since he was not bright, totally dependent on Maria. Yet in spite of this dependency he treated Maria very badly.” Clayton did not include Ture’s name in his version of the Windh family history.
Lloyd Person wrote that after Maria’s death Ture gradually sold off everything of value till there was little left. He found a woman (of questionable virtue?) to live with him and take care of him but she soon left and took most anything else of value with her. At the end he was even burning the family furniture in the fireplace to keep warm. Clayton Person wrote that by the time of his death Ture had become “a ward of the state.”
At John Windh's visit in 1976 the Norra Rörum pastor (Rev. Grimhammar) mentioned that Ture had moved to nearby Höör, perhaps to a home, on July 1, 1968. In our presence he called there and learned that Ture had died on May 8, 1970.
See the NOTES under Selma Maria Windh for how Ture treated her late in their lives. Another account describes Ture as a “no-good, lazy person who didn’t work and became a ward of the state.”
In a 1976 letter, Lloyd Person recalled meeting Ture's mother and her sister, both of whom he said were illegitimate. That mother was Jennie Karlsson, who may have later been married and known as Jennie Johansson. There was a Jennie Karlsson living in Norra Rörum in 1976 but John Windh couldn't find her at home. Her dad may have been a cousin of Sven Windh.
When Ture was still a small boy, according to Lloyd, Ture's mother was jailed after killing three of her illegitimate children. So at that time Olander and Cecilia began to raise Ture. He appears in several old family photos; they must have been taken before 1921 since they include Sven Windh who left in that year. Olander and Cecilia may have formally adopted Ture, which might explain why, in Sven's opinion, Ture kept too many family artifacts for himself after Maria died in 1957 and sent Sven only a few small items of minor significance. A court document shows that at her death Maria left an estate of over 10,000 Swedish crowns and a quantity of furniture and household items. Apparently she left all those possessions to Ture, whom she called her "faithful hired man." He apparently lived with Maria until her death in 1957 and perhaps until 1968 (see below).
Clayton Person visited Maria in 1955 and met Ture. He noted that Ture was then about 40, “unemployed and unemployable since he was not bright, totally dependent on Maria. Yet in spite of this dependency he treated Maria very badly.” Clayton did not include Ture’s name in his version of the Windh family history.
Lloyd Person wrote that after Maria’s death Ture gradually sold off everything of value till there was little left. He found a woman (of questionable virtue?) to live with him and take care of him but she soon left and took most anything else of value with her. At the end he was even burning the family furniture in the fireplace to keep warm. Clayton Person wrote that by the time of his death Ture had become “a ward of the state.”
At John Windh's visit in 1976 the Norra Rörum pastor (Rev. Grimhammar) mentioned that Ture had moved to nearby Höör, perhaps to a home, on July 1, 1968. In our presence he called there and learned that Ture had died on May 8, 1970.