AEMI

MARIA JARLSDOTTER ENCKELL
ame Aleksandra Ivanovna Rosenberg’s
chamber-maid called Maria Ivanovna
(O’Grady 2001:88)? Madame Rosenberg
was Orthodox and believed to have
been Russian? (Enckell 2007:78). It’s
also known she had brought along two
serfs who then married at Sitka. Governor
Rosenberg, an Evangelical Lutheran
(Enckell 1996:46), converted at Sitka in
1852 on February 23 to Russian Orthodoxy.
Concerning the Households of the
Finnish Governors
Arvid Adolph Etholén’s Valet was the
Helsingfors born Finlander Carl Jacob
Enberg (often mistakenly named Carl
Johan), and Margaretha Hedwig Johanna
Sundwall married Etholén’s
chamber-maid was the Helsinge parish-born
Finlander Henrica Lovisa Sahlström,
and the household’s errand boy
was the Nastola parish-born Finlander
Johannes Carlsson, and widowed Anna
Margaretha Öhmann nee Sundberg, the
Etholén family’s Finnish Helsinge-born
Household Matron, and her Lovisa city
born under age daughter Elisa (Elise)
Adolphina Wilhelmina Öhmann, Sitka’s
Finnish Pastor Uno Cygnaeus’ greatest
love of life. Instead what took place, was
what her mother all along had wished
for: in the spring of 1845 Sitka’s Medical
Doctor Alexander Frankenhaeuser
married her. All of them were brought
from Finland to cover the Etholéns 5
year stay at Sitka, and all of them are
by now fully identified (Enckell 2002b).
Unknown is who served as Johan
Hampus Furuhjelm’s personal valet during
his first 1850-1854 round of duty
as a Naval Lieutenant at Sitka, Russian
America, and who served as his valet
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from 1854 to1858 at Ajan, Pacific Siberia?
For Furuhjelm’s third 1859-1864
round of duty, this time again at Sitka
as Governor and Chief Manager of
the Russian American Company, the
Karnuna parish born Finlander Petter
Wilhelm Wikström was in December
of 1858 hired at Helsingfors to serve
as Furuhjelm’s personal valet, and in
early January of 1859 Wikström took
out parish moving papers from Helsingfors
to Sitka in North America.
By now he is fully identified (Furuhjelm1832:119.
Christensen 2005:162.
Enckell 2015:manuscript).
However, Furuhjelm’s wife Anna von
Schoultz’s personal chamber-maid has
not been identified, and, although quite
unthinkable, it’s unsure if she ever had
one during her initial leg of journey from
Helsingfors to St. Petersburg. However
her sister Florence von Schoultz
had been invited to accompany her as
far as to London, England (Furuhjelm
1932:118), and at St. Petersburg Nikolai
M. Koshkin, Furuhjelm’s secretary had
joined them (Furuhjelm1932:122-123.
Christensen 2005:30-31).
When at Dresden Madame Furuhjelm’s
all-in-one: chamber-maid-household-matron-seamstress
etc.: the
remarkable Ida Hörle about age
40, was engaged (Christensen
2005:45,108,123), as well as their cook
& pastry chef Carl Bruno Treibe (Christensen
2005:157) of Swiss German
nationality with a hidden drinking problem
(Furuhjelm 1932:122). At Sitka the
Furuhjelms seem also to have engaged
a Russian cook, and when communication
got muddled Valet Wikström
was requested to assist (Christensen