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Re: Quarfoot, Quarford, Quarfot, Qvarfot

alqnyc — 2009-08-25 12:30:56Z

Wow, Lew. I can't wait to hear more. My email is alq.nyc@verizon.net. Thanks for the quick response. I know I'll appreciate all the info you've learned, too. Glad to have found you, cuz.

Lee

Re: Quarfoot, Quarford, Quarfot, Qvarfot

lewedin — 2009-08-25 05:36:58Z

We definitely do share great grandparents. I've come across most of your family members and have also heard from a few (Barbara, Judy and Kaitlyn). I've found out a ton of info since I originally posted this message so you should contact me. Our lineage has been traced through the Latter Day Saints to 080 a.d. and it's royalty for many, many generations for quite a few countries. This is mainly through our paternal great, great grandmother, Brita Stina Kihlstrom Quarfoot (Quarford, Qvarfot). Let me know your email and I will be in touch.

Re: Quarfoot, Quarford, Quarfot, Qvarfot

alqnyc — 2009-08-24 17:33:18Z

Dear TruLew,

I'm a bit late in coming to this, but I think I may have some information for you.
My grandfather was William Quarfoot and I know he came from a large family. I believe his birthday was January 1st.
My dad, Charles Donald Quarfoot, was born in Grantsburg, Wisconsin in 1919. He was always called Don because he had an Uncle Charlie. I think I remember hearing about Aunt Minnie and Aunt Julia too. So it sure sounds like you and I share the same great grandparents. I was told the ancestors came from Varmland, Sweden. Could that be the province of Nora, Orebro Lan?

My grandfather Bill and my grandmother Esther Franklin Quarfoot moved to Northern Michigan sometime in the 1920s. My grandfather was a farmer and logger. They had five sons. They are all gone now, but the entire family is buried in Trenary, Michigan. I have a handful of Quarfoot cousins still scattered around the state. My brother and I both moved away about 35 years ago. He has two sons and his first grandson was born on the east coast this year, so the Quarfoot name is carrying on.

If you'd like to discuss this further, feel free to contact me. I live in New York now and I've always kept my maiden name, so I'm the only Quarfoot in the Manhattan phone book. Or I'll watch for a reply on this site.

Nice to meet you in cyberspace. It's good to know a few details about my great grandparents.

Best regards, Lee Quarfoot

Quarfoot, Quarford, Quarfot, Qvarfot

lewedin — 2007-10-02 14:00:30Z

My great grandfather was Franz Herrman Qvarfot. He was born 10/6/1846 in Nora, Orebro Lan, Sweden. He immigrated to the US about 1870 and married Johanna Mathilda Kalberg (Kihlborg, Kelberg, Kalberg) also from Sweden, in 1872 in Cook County, IL. They had 10 children: Frank D.(b. 9/2/1973 in IL), Tilda (b. abt 1875 in IL), Charles (b. 8/1/1877 in WI), Hanna (b. 5/29/1880 WI), Harry (b. 1882 WI), Minnie (b. 1886 WI), William (b. 1/1/1888 WI), Julia (b. 1890 WI), Paul Edwin (b. 1892) and my grandmother, Ruth Elizabeth (b. 1/3/1894). I am having trouble finding out anything on either side of my family. I think I found the arrival date for Johanna Mathilda (listed as Tilda) on the Caledonia arriving 6/23/1868. I cannot find anything on her, not even her death date in Wisconsin. They are listed on the 1880 census in Burnett County, Wisconsin, and lived the rest of their lives, to my knowledge in and around Grantsburg, WI. If anyone has any information on either of these families I would be very grateful. I have one living relative on this side of the family that says her grandfather Quarfoot lived with her family until his death in the 1920's. I have an estimated death year of 1918 for him. She also states that her grandfather's name was Charles, as was her father, and that also doesn't make sense given her grandfather was named Franz. Maybe a second father in the mix?