THE RESIDENTS OF ELÄINTARHA VILLA NO. 14 IN 1900. Age ticket clerk with the State Railways Oskar Blom 48 Olga 45 seaman Orvar Blom 20 Ragnar 16 student Gerda 21 clerk Signe 18 Mrs Aurora Helström student Fancred? Teuvo Renvall 24 Mrs Johanna Sandmark 45 Cecilia Tuominen 27 architect, baron Karl August Wrede 41 Gertrud 32 Ellen Smedberg 23 housekeeper Katarina Andersson 49 Mrs. Matilda Nordbec 41 Ida Gröndahl 24 source: Helsinki City Archives (The list does not include children under the age of 16) always sat at the head of the table; his job was to mix the salad in a crystal bowl. Even after the children had moved out, the Sunday meal still continued as a family tradition. Nobody was specifically invited, but all family members and friends who could make it would turn up. Sunday walks in the gardens and the nearby park were also a favourite family ritual. Gerda, the eldest of the children, was an accomplished student. She completed her M.A. in 1907. She did not marry until aged 29, and she had four children, two of whom died soon after 40 birth. Gerda and her family lived in the villa for a while as did Orvar’s family. Orvar’s family occupied the downstairs. Orvar had trained as a sea captain and in his travels had met Ida Sewell, an Australian, whom he married in 1914. Orvar died in 1925, the same year as Olga, his mother. Signe had a long career as an accountant with the railways. She never married and it was said this was because of an unhappy love affair. Signe was to be the last of the Bloms to live in the villa, where she died in 1958.
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