Flag Day (Australia)

Flag of Australia. By Ian Fieggen (Own work) [Public domain]. 16 April 2007. Available from Wikimedia Commons.

In Australia, Flag Day commemorates the day that the Australian Flag was first flown. A public national flag competition was held in 1901. Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister of Australia, announced the winning designs (one design was for official use, and the other was for merchant service) in Melbourne on 3 September 1901. The flag was flown over the dome of the Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

Flag Day was officially established in Australia on 28 August 1996, when Sir William Deane, the 22nd Governor-General of Australia, issued a proclamation establishing September 3 as Flag Day. It has been celebrated since 3 September 1996.

My great-great-grandfather Andreas Troedsson's brother Ola Peter Troedson immigrated to Australia from Sweden, and descendants of his still live there. Descendants of their sister Johanna (Troedsdotter) Sandquist also live in Australia.

References
Australian National Flag 1901-1903 
Australian National Flag Day Fact Sheet 
Flag Day (Australia) 

Wednesday's Child: Botilla Troedsdotter

Death/burial record for Botilla, January 1862. Grevie FI:2 (1861-1894), image 11.

Botilla, the youngest child of my 3rd-great-grandparents Troed Andersson and Christina Jacobsdotter, was born on 12 December 1861 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden. She lived for only a few weeks. Botilla died on 3 January 1862 and was buried on 6 January 1862.

Sibling Saturday: The Five Anderson Siblings Who Came to America

Five of the children of Troed Andersson and Christina Jacobsdotter left Sweden and came to the United States.

Andreas Troedsson, my great-great-grandfather (born 24 February 1851 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden), was the first come to the United States. He immigrated in 1872 and changed his name to Andrew T. Anderson; the middle initial T was from his original patronymic, Troedsson. He settled in Chicago, Illinois, where he married Marthe Elisabeth Erickson on 31 March 1877. They had seven children. He died in Chicago on 24 Jaunary 1916 and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Johanna (born 16 February 1849 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden) came to the United States in the mid-1870s and settled in Chicago. She married Frans Ludvig Oscar Sandquist, a widower, on 19 December 1885. They had four children. Johanna died in Chicago on 4 February 1934 and was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery.

Sven (born 30 December 1856 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden) came to the United States in the mid-1870s. He changed his name from Sven Troedsson to Sven T. Anderson. In 1880 he lived in Suez Township, Mercer County, Illinois. By 1885 he had moved to Morris County, Kansas. He married Hannah Louise Abramson on 18 October 1887. They had thirteen children. Sven died on 6 October 1914 and was buried in Hebron Lutheran Church Cemetery in Morris County, Kansas.

Nils (born 14 November 1852 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden) came to the United States in the early 1880s. He changed his name from Nils Troedsson to Nils T. Anderson. He settled in Chicago, where he married Ida C. Anderson on 27 November 1886. They had three children. Nils died in Chicago on 6 July 1928 and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery.

Elna (born  in 23 August 1845 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden) married Nils Jonsson in Grevie on 15 April 1864. Their children came to the United States. In 1903, Elna and her son Sven Peter Nilsson came to the United States. Elna changed her name to Elna Nelson, because her children used the surname Nelson. Elna died in Chicago on 27 September 1925 and was buried in Graceland Cemetery.