The second child of Johan and Johanna Mankell was Wilhelm August, born in Christiansfeld Denmark in 1803. Wilhelm was a carpenter, a trade he learned in Christiansfeld, like his older brother Carl Abraham. At some point Wilhelm left Christiansfeld to join his father in Sweden. By 1823 he left Karlskrona and worked in Vadstena and then in Gothenburg (Göteborg) on Sweden’s west coast, (see maps) where he built, repaired and tuned pianos. In the early 1830s Wilhelm married Margareta Igelström and had 4 children.
Augusta Wilhelmina Mankell (1833-1891) and Julia Hermina (1840-1927)
Augusta Wilhelmina (1833 – 1891) was the oldest; she was born and died in Gothenburg. Their fourth child was Julia Hermina, born 1840 in Gothenburg and died in 1927 in the same city. Both sisters were music teachers in the Gothenburg area. Hulda Mankell (daughter of HW and Elisabeth) corresponded with “Tante Hermina” and many of these letters are in Jane Hauser Pejsa’s history of her parents, Hulda and Hans Melgaard.
Herman Wilhelm Mankell (1835-1889)
Wilhelm and Margareta’s second child was Herman Wilhelm (also known as HW), born in Gothenburg in 1835. In 1856 HW left Sweden and set sail for the US, arriving in Pennsylvania and was in Northfield, Minnesota by 1857. He and his wife, Elizabeth Olson, homesteaded the farm in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota in 1867, and are my great great grandparents. Separate web pages are devoted to HW, Elisabeth, and their descendants.
Otto August Mankell (1838-1885)
Otto August (commonly and professionally referred to as OA Mankell) was born in Gothenburg in 1838 and lived most of his life on an island near Stockholm: Lidingö He was an artist—painter and lithographer—and architect.