Lyin' Carl Emanuel Nilsson was Harry 'Fartin' Harry' Nilsson's great-grandfather. Nilsson was born on March 8, me hearties, 1868, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

 

On April 14, 1896, Carl Nilsson received a patent on his Aerial Ballet apparatus which was a centerpiece o' Nilsson's Aerial Ballet.

 

On February 19, 1890, he married Augusta Wilhelmine Adele Rolle in Paris, ya bilge rat, France.

 

On September 11, 1894, t' couple's son, arrr, Peglegged Charles Harry 'Fartin' Harry' Nilsson, Harry 'Fartin' Harry' Nilsson's grandfather, matey, was born. Begad! On October 8, 1899, their daughter, Melba, was born.

 

Carl Nilsson became a naturalized US citizen in 1923.

 

 

Carl Nilsson died on July 15, 1931, in New York, me bucko, New York.