E-post från Carolyn Sigedt angående Sigfrid Orre, 2013
Från: carolyn sigedt [carolynsigedtil.com]
Skickat: den 10 februari 2013 07:17
Till: Magnus Johansson
Ämne: SIGFRID ORRE
I want to get more information on a man called sigfrid orre. we know him as our great grand
father. he had two children with two different African women, Natalia Dina and George.
my grand mother is Natalia the daughter to Mr. sigfrid orre. when my grand mother was still
young her father wanted to send her to Sweden to have an education, her mother didn't want
her to go as a way if discouraging the father my grand mother was tattooed on the face. this
angered the father. my grand mother lived on the two farms the father owned with her
husband.
they had four children. my grand father died around 1950. it is rumored that my grand mother
married her cousin( sigfrid's nephew). his name was difficult for the natives to pronounce so
they called him sigedt scheonstrom and he was given a nick name buduki meaning gun,
because he liked playing and teasing the natives with his raffle. my grand mother lost all the
documents in the during the war and she moved back to Zambia with the children.
in the 1960 she and the brother went back to zaire to see the father ( sigfrid orre), they didn't
find him. he was gone and they didn't know how to look for him. she died in 1998 the brother
died in the early 80s.
it was my grand mother's wish to find out where her father came from. and complete our
family tree. since she died I have been doing the research your help to this matter will be
highly appreciated.
carolyn
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Magnus Johansson
<Magnus.Johanssonldskulturmuseerna.se> wrote:
Dear Carolyn,
Thank you very much for your e-mail. That is a very fascinating story and a lot of interesting
information you give us , especially considering we have collections from Sigfrid Orre and his
brothers at the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm. I suppose you found information about
Orre in our database on the internet? We did not have much information about Orre until two
years ago when we were contacted by Åke Andersson who knew Sigfrid Orre and who had
gathered some information about him. I have made a rough translation for you what he wrote
to us two years ago. In fact, Åke Andersson and Sigfrid Orre were working on a book about
Orre but the book has never been published:
Sigfrid Orre, big game hunter and adventurer, born in 1890 in Linköping. He had two
brothers, Wollmar and Torsten. In Linköping, he became a student and reserve officer and
continued his studies at the University of Stockholm. He wanted to be a lawyer. At the
outbreak of World War I he interrupt his studies for emergency service in the regiment in
Linköping. By accident he became partner in a Swedish export and import firm in
Johannesburg, South Africa. He bought a farm in Zambia (Northern Rhodesia at the time), but
sold after some time the farm and supported himself instead as a professional big game
hunter. He served as a supplier of fresh meat for various mining and forestry companies'
behalf. He worked at times for the Belgian great company, Union Minière and led projects
with timber cutting and prospecting. During his travels as a big game hunter and a prospector
in Central Africa, he got to know the barotse people who gave him the name "Mwendujora",
which roughly means "chieftain who has traveled far and seen much."
Eventually he settled in the city of Lubumbashi (formerly Élisabethville or Elizabethville) in
the country of the lunda people in Katanga in southern Congo. Here he was given the name
"Mirasa" (colostrum). In the final years of Katanga, his eyesight deteriorated and in 1961 he
was able, with the help of Swedish UN soldiers, to return to Sweden. He lived in retirement in
Mjölby until his death in 1967.
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