When Elsa Edvardsdotter Brändström was born on 26 March 1888, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, her father, Pehr Henrik Eduard Pehrsson Brandstrom, was 37 and her mother, Anna Eschelsson, was 32. She lived in Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden in 1895. She died on 4 March 1948, at the age of 59.
Swedish (Bränström): variant of Brännström, ornamental name composed of the elements bränna ‘burned land’ (probably from a placename) + ström ‘stream’.
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