Mankell Family History
Other Children and Descendants of Johan Herman Mankell
Other web pages describe the lives of Gustav, Carl Abraham and his son Julius, Wilhelm and his sons Otto August and Herman Wilhelm. This page includes information about the other children of Johan Herman Mankell and some of their descendants.
Children of Johan and Johanna (Keyser) Mankell:
LOUISE AMALIA MANKELL (1806-1806), FRIEDRICH FERDINAND MANKELL (1807-1807) and GEORG ANDREAS MANKELL (1809-?)
Louise and Friedrich both died in infancy; Louise survived for 3 days; Friedrich died at birth.
The only information we have about Georg (George) is that he was unmarried and survived his mother Johanna who died in 1839.
FRIEDERICA AMALIA MANKELL (1814-1889)
Born on April 8, 1814 in Christiansfeld, Friederica (Fredrika) married musician Wilhelm Theodor Gnosspelius in 1853. They lived in Linköping Sweden (see maps) where Wilhelm worked as an organist. Friederica died in Lund Sweden in 1889. Their daughter Amanda Planck was active in the musical life of Linköping in the 1880s where she directed several choirs and was well regarded as a singer. Amanda also organized orchestra concerts in Linköping.
Children of Johan and Helena (Svedman) Mankell:
JOHAN AUGUST MANKELL (1825-1868) Johan August was born on June 14 1825 in Karlskrona Sweden. (see maps) He was the oldest child of Helena and Johan Herman. He worked as a music director in Eksjö and Skara Sweden. Johan married Hilda Oterdahl in 1836 and they had 4 children. Helena (1863-1941) and Ida (1864-1940) both worked at a school for the blind and deaf in Vänersborg Sweden. It appears that neither daughter married. Gustaf (1866-1928) was a businessman who married Alma Petersson and died in Gothenburg. Youngest child August (1868-1939) was an artist, dentist, and singer. August left his inheritance to his two sisters who donated this fortune to charity in Skara. As of 1996, this foundation was worth about 1.6 million Swedish crowns.
Johan August Mankell, c1860.
VIKTOR ALFRED MANKELL (1827-1831) and HERMAN LUDVIG FERDINAND MANKELL (1829-1836)
Both sons were born in Karlskrona and died in their childhood.
SVEN GUSTAF GEORG JULIUS MANKELL (1832-1886)
Sven was born in Karlskrona and died in Härnösand Sweden (see maps) and was the head of the county constabulary in Undrom Boteå in the northern part of Sweden. He married Hilda Liden in 1868. Sven and Hilda had 5 children: Berta, Helga, Bernhard, Hilda, and Carl. The youngest, Carl, died when he was three.
Their fourth child, Hilda, was born in 1877. She studied music (piano and voice) at the Academy of Music in Stockholm and in Berlin. She worked as a singer and actress. In 1902 she performed the roll of “Lizzie” in the operetta Solstrålen (The Sunbeam) on stage throughout Sweden, including Stockholm and Gothenburg. Hilda also performed concerts in churches and concert halls, singing works of the masters, including W. A. Mozart, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Hilda married a Naval Officer, Emil Lindbergh in 1905. They had two children, Ingegard (b. 1907) and Bo (b. 1909), a businessman in Stockholm.
Hilda Mankell Lindbergh, as "Lizzie" in a 1902 production.
EMIL THEODOR MANKELL (1834-1899)
The youngest child of Johan and Helena, Emil was born in Karlskrona and was only one year old when his father died in 1835. Emil was a teacher of drawing and gymnastics in Härnösand.(see maps) He married twice, first to Amalia Häggström in 1863 and to Sara Svartengren in 1879. Like has father and many siblings, Emil was a musician. He was a violinist who played in a symphony orchestra and was involved in the Härnösand Music Society.
Emil Theodore Mankell's drawing of CM Torin.
Emil and Amalia had three children: Claud Gustaf (C. Gustaf), Emil Gunnar (Gunnar) and Ivar Henning (Henning).
Summertime,1929, in the Gryt's archipelago: three brothers and a son.
Claud Gustaf (1865-?), Henning (1868-1930), Ivar (1906-1972, son of Henning), Gunnar (1866-1932)
Gustaf was vacationing in Sweden (He lived in Boston at this time).
Gustaf was born in Härnösand in 1865. He left Sweden for the US in 1889 and lived in Buffalo, New York, where he was an artist and musician (he played the cello). Later he lived in Boston, MA where he was a copywriter.
Watercolor of "The Old Man of the Mountain" (or "Great Stone Face"), by Claud Gustaf Mankell, 1910.
The rock formation in the White Mountains of New Hampshire collapsed in 2003.
An 1886 portrait drawing by Claud Gustaf Mankell.
In 1890, Claud Gustaf married Nathalie (Natalia) Kavaleff from Finland (or Russia) who was a gymnast and taught at the University of Buffalo. They had no children. Nathalie was born in Helsingfors (the Swedish name for Helsinki FInland) on Dec 29, 1864. Here is some additional information about Nathalie and C. Gustaf taken from another web site:
Nathalie emigrated to USA in 1890, because she did not get her parents approval to marry a Swedish artist, Carl Gustaf (Claude ?) Mankell. Nathalie left Finland on Saturday the 27th Sept. 1890 by S/S Helsingfors as Miss Kavaleff but she arrived to US as Mrs Mankell. I do not know where she married Mankell. The Mankells settled down in Buffalo, NY and their address was: 63 Linwood Avenue. Carl Gustaf was friend with George Merrit Clark, a painter from Buffalo Nathalie graduated from the Royal Gymnastic Central Institute/GCI in Stockholm in 1889 as teacher of gymnastics. After that she was working at Mariehamns Badanstalt, Åland in the Summer 1890. She had also a practice in Helsingfors at Högbergsgatan 21 before she left Finland. In the States she had a practice already 1890 in Buffalo, worked at Franklin School 1894-1903 as teacher of gymnastics, giving lectures in medical gymnastics at the medical department of the University ibm since 1896 and University of Buffalo since 1899. Nathalie graduated from Univ. of Buffalo on 1911 as a doctor with the speciality, medical gymnastics. "Women and athletics gained a foothold through Dr Mankell and by the fall of 1922, enough support was gathered to establish the University's Women's Athletics Association" (copied from the website of UB). Nathalie was naturalized July 25, 1911 at the Southern District Court of New York. C-G (Claude) Mankell 1894 at Erik County.
Nathalie was one of two women who were University of Buffalo's first female faculty, hired in 1895. She taught in the School of Pedagogy (later the School of Education). Here is more information and a photo of Nathalie from the University of Buffalo.
C. Gustaf and Nathalie traveled a few times between Buffalo and Sweden. The following images are of C Gustaf's 1895 passport and Nathalie's 1897 passport. (The images are quite large for legibility.)
Emil Theodore and Amalia's second child Emil Gunnar (known as Gunnar) taught drawing at the high school in Härnösand in northern Sweden. He never married.
Two drawings by Gunnar Mankell: Sigrid Arnoldsson, undated; and Anna Klemming (?), 1887.
Painting by Gunnar Mankell, undated.
Son of Emil and Amalia, Ivar Henning (known as Henning) was a well-known pianist, music teacher, music critic and composer and a member of the Royal Academy of Music. Ivar Henning was a music student at the Stockholm Music Conservatory. He studied music with Hilda Thegerström and studied piano with Lennart Lundberg. He was a music critic for the Svenske Morgonbladet and the Stockholms-Tidningen. In the late 1880s Ivar Henning and his two brothers, Emil and Gustaf, formed a piano trio. In addition to performing and teaching piano, Ivar Henning was was an amateur violinist, a poet, and a writer, and artist. In 1893 he wrote a short story “A Life” which is about the struggles of an artist. He drew sketches and painted from his travels in Sweden and Europe.
Ivar Henning was best known as a composer for solo piano, chamber orchestra, instrumental, and vocal music. His style was thought to be independent and advanced for its time. His music is described as poetic, impressionistic, and full of fantasy, influenced by Debussy, Grieg, and Liszt His work focused on technical and stylistic aspects rather than the more popular romantic style. In 1917 he was elected into the Swedish Royal Academy of Music. The Svenska Biografiskt Lexikon describes Henning as a “lonely, shy person who avoided society, being more comfortable alone with his piano or in nature.”
In 1905 Ivar Henning married Agnes Karolina Lindblom and had three children (Ivar Henningsson, Sigrid, and Birgit). Ivar Henningsson's son, Henning Georg Mankell (1948-) is a world famous author.
Emil Theodore married a second time; he and his second wife Sara had one daughter, Anna (1880-1926), a teacher in languages.