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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 50535, member: 59"]Well, after much searching, tweaking the search, searching again, etc. I may have found Gustav Augustus and Maria (not Mena) Svensen in 1900 and 1905 Census records living in New Rochelle, Westchester, NY (not far north of the city.) He was born 1849 in (possibly Karrsholm) Sweden and emigrated to NY in 1873. Maria was born in Germany about 1844. They married, probably in NY, in 1875. The only children I have found so far were Annie, born about 1876, and Matilda, born about 1878, both in New York. I still can't find Emma Svensen, but I did find a Selma Ekman with her husband Fred Ekman living in the Bronx in 1905. Perhaps the Svensens lived nearby before they moved out of the city. Since there was no Emma living with these Svensens in 1900 or 1905, it's hard to say what her relationship was to them. Or frankly, whether I have even found the right people. It's been a tough slog trying to find a Gustav Svensen in any part of NYC who was 1) married and 2) was doing work that would have made him well enough off to be dressed the way our subject is. The Gustav I found was a milk dealer and well enough healed to have servants in the house.[/QUOTE]