Persson History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Persson migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Anders Peter Persson, aged 22, who landed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1848 ^[1]
Nils Persson, aged 29, who landed in New Orleans, La in 1850 ^[1]
Carl Persson, aged 17, who landed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1850 ^[1]
Gustaf Persson, aged 19, who arrived in New Orleans, La in 1850 ^[1]
Isaac Persson, aged 26, who landed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1850 ^[1]
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Per-Åke Tommy Persson (1946-2021), known by the stage name Peps Persson, a Swedish blues and reggae musician and social critic, recipient of an honorary award at the Grammis ceremony in 2007
Peder Persson (1938-2018), Swedish footballer
Joakim Persson (b. 1975), former Swedish footballer and coach
Jörgen Persson (b. 1966), Swedish sixteen-time gold medalist table tennis player
Hans Göran Persson (b. 1949), Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006
Markus Alexej "Notch" Persson (b. 1979), Swedish video game programmer and designer best known for Mincraft
Karl Gunnar Persson (1943-2016), Scandinavian economic historian
Joachim Persson (b. 1983), Danish badminton player, currently the 3rd highest ranked singles player in Denmark

Mr. Ernst Ulrik Persson, aged 25, Swedish Third Class passenger from Stockholm, Uppland who sailed aboard the RMS Titanic and survived in the sinking in life boat 15 ^[2]

^ Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
^ Titanic Passenger List - Titanic Facts. (Retrieved 2016, July 13) . Retrieved from http://www.titanicfacts.net/titanic-passenger-list.html