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    THE HUNT FOR THE LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPER’S DAUGHTER

    Apr 07, 2020 5 minutes
    ‘Clara married a coal miner from County Durham, Matthew Brown’

    Each year, around 250 Swedish citizens die without anyone laying claim to their estate. Many of them will have had close relatives, but nobody knows where. This challenge is the basis of Sweden’s popular, award-winning series Arvinge okänd (Finding an Heir), which began in 2017.

    The show features presenters Kattis Ahlström and Niklas Källner searching for people with an unknown family history. I was privileged to be involved in an episode broadcast on 28 November 2019 entitled Fyrvaktarens dotter – The Lighthouse-keeper’s Daughter. The episode centred on the search for the heirs of the daughter of a keeper at Böttö Lighthouse in Gothenburg Harbour. Clara Vilhelmina (or Wilhelmina) Carlsdotter/Jonson was born on 14 May 1875 in Böttö in the parish of Styrsö.

    The surname literally means ‘daughter of Carl’; the lighthouse-keeper was himself named Carl Johansson. This naming tradition distinguished between sons and

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