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PART 2: THE ARRIVAL OF OUR PATRIARCH IN SOUTH AFRICA
CHAPTER 1: CARL GUSTAV IS SHIPWRECKED AT PORT ALFRED
CARL GUSTAV ANDERSSON : 24th June 1851 to 16th September1924

CARL GUSTAV ANDERSSON

Here is our famous Carl Gustav at the age of 56: still black haired and red bearded!

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aving gone back as far in time as we are able, we now work forwards and tell the story
of the arrival of our first Andresson in South Africa, and of the subsequent family who
grew in that name, then had it changed to the more anglicised Anderson. Some of the
stories have been researched and some have been kept alive through family legend. A
very few of us still hold some faint memories of the original family. Not one of the offspring
spoke Swedish as far as I know.
It has been recorded that Carl Gustav was a crew member of the Snorre-Sturlasson when it was
wrecked on the rocks off the coast of Port Alfred on the 15th July 1875. He must have been 24
years old. We have no knowledge of his position on the ship, but considering his family’s naval
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