Malmö household examination roll, 1886-1890: the Pålsson household

Unrelated. This record belongs to the Pålsson family of Malmö, which was taken for Anna Mary Paulson’s on 5 October 2026 and ruled out the same day (that Anna Matilda married in Malmö in 1902). Kept so the family is not attached again; see research/paulson/anna-paulson-swedish-origins.md.

Found on FamilySearch, 5 October 2026 (image in the Gallery). Page 46, “S.f. 48” (Södra förstaden, Malmö’s southern suburb, in S:t Petri parish). Read from the image:

Name	Born	Birthplace
Pålson, Nils, trädgårdsmästare (gardener)	2 July 1842	Oxie
Hu[stru] (wife) Kersti Anderson	20 Sept 1844	Svedala
B[ar]n (children): Johan Alfred	21 July 1870	“Förs.” (this parish)
Karl Peter	15 Sept 1872	ditto
Anna Matilda	28 March 1874	ditto
Bernhard Ulrik	2 July 1878	ditto
Axel Viktor	11 March 1881	ditto
Pål Josef	22 Dec 1883	ditto

• Nils and Kersti married 18 Oct 1869. The family came from S.f. 48, p. 31 of the previous roll, in 1885.
• Nils died 8 January 1886 (the “Död” column).
• The household moved to S:t Pauli parish, Malmö (“S. Pli” in the “moved to” column), on 23 November 1886 (the day might be read 27; read here as 29). A bracket joins Nils’s and Kersti’s lines to moving certificate no. 1236, the widow’s; the children follow, with ditto marks, on certificate no. 1237. The whole household was then struck through here.

The children’s birthplace is written “Förs.” for the first and dittoed for the rest: församlingen, “this parish”, that is, Malmö S:t Petri (first misread here as Fosie; the 1880 census and the 1887-1897 Malmö family census both say S:t Petri). Anna Matilda’s birth on 28 March 1874 fits the baptism indexed at Malmö on 4 April 1874 (Anna Matilda, daughter of Nils Pahlson and Kerstin Anderson; parish-register-sweden-baptisms-paulson).