Phillip Gustafson - Philip Gustafson

My aunt Gertrude told me that my grandfather Philip Gustafson was not his real name. Olga met him on a ship when she was escaping Russians via Norway, after the death of her husband Juho Oskari Matarainen. Philip was a stowaway on the ship, and supposedly took the name of a man who died on the boat on the trip from Norway to NYC. She was leaving Finland supposedly because she had been moving guns to Finnish soldiers, and the Russians were after her. She left her three children with Juho, in Finland with one of their aunts. The three children later moved to America. They were my father's half-siblings.