Malmöhus County
Martina Bergman-Österberg was born on 7 October 1849 in Hammarlunda, a farming community in Malmöhus County (now part of Skåne County), Sweden. Her parents were Karl Bergman, a farmer, and Betty Lundgren; she also had two brothers who both died at a young age, and three sisters who eventually settled abroad. After receiving a private education at home, she was employed as a governess from 1870 to 1873, and from 1874 to 1877 she worked as a "Nordisk familjebok" librarian, where she met her future husband.