Hans Linus Eklund. Born 30 October 1895 in Snäflunda, Örebro, Sweden. His mother was Augusta Amalia Albertina Eklund (she was an unmarried domestic maid); Hans' father's name is not entered into the birth records; she was born 8 May 1874).
He lived with his mother in the household of his grandparents Anders August, a mechanical shop worker b. 1838, and Klara Sofia (nee Berggren: b. 1848) Eklund at Kårbergs Bruk.
He had a brother, Anders Emanuel, b. 8 April 1903 in Maria Magdalena parish, Stockholm; his father is not known either. He also had a sister, Karin, born 26 November 1908.Both were also born illegitimately.
Hans appears to have had a dysfunctional childhood and may have spent time in foster care or children's homes as a child. By 1912 he was a factory worker and lived at Kårberg, Skyllbergs, Snavlunda.
Hans was travelling from Kårberg to his uncle 1 Johan Bernhard Eklund (b. 1870) in Jerome Junction, Arizona. He boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a third class passenger (ticket number 347074 which cost £7, 15s, 6d) and is thought to have been travelling alone.
Hans Eklund died in the sinking and his body, if recovered, was never identified.
The Mansion House Fund paid 2699.52 Kr (£148) to his mother but she made no damage claims. Augusta Eklund would lose her daughter Karin in 1916 and her son Anders in 1920. She later married, becoming Mrs August Wilhelm Jansson and died on 21 November 1959 aged 85.
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Some corrections: Bernhard Eklund was not Linus' brother, but his uncle - his mother's brother. Linus however did have two siblings, a brother Anders, born in 1903, who died in 1920, never recovering from the Spanish flu, and a sister Karin, born in 1908, who died in 1916. The mother, Augusta, passed away in 1959. All children were born out of wedlock with unknown fathers. From 1921 she was married to an August Jansson, 1858-1936. The closest relatives of Linus today are descendents of another uncle. A brother to his paternal grand father had emigrated to the USA.Professor Glenn T. Seaborg, 1912-1999 (nobel prize 1951 and had element nr 106, seaborgium, named after him in his lifetime), who was born on April 19, 1912 - four days after the Titanic disaster - was a third cousin of Linus. Linus' mother's father's father's father and Glenn's mother's father's father's father were brothers.
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Anybody else related to the Manns in Belfast ? Joseph and Mary Mann - 12 children 7 x boys John (Australia) ,William (Seaman) Joseph (Seaman) , Francis 5 x girls Cissie ( married Tom Murtagh) ,Kate (Married Joe McGinnety) ,susan ,elizabeth and Mary
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Linus was a fourth cousin of chemist and Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg, although Seaborg was about a generation younger and actually was born just a few days after the Titanic disaster, on April 19, 1912. Seaborg would go on to discover or co-discover ten transuranium elements, was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1951, joint with Edwin McMillan, and eventually had element number 106 named after him in his lifetime, as seaborgium.The paternal great grand fathers of Glenn's and Linus' mothers were brothers Fredrik Eriksson, 1775-1851, and Anders Ersson Ek, 1776-1810, respectively. Anders assumed the surname of Ek (Oak in Swedish), which his children changed to Eklund ("lund" means grove). Fredrik's and Anders' paternal grand mother was Maria Pemer, 1691-1779, hence my discovery of their relationship which each others as well as with me.
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