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Gus (Gustaf? August?) is not as easy. Nothing obvious pops up on Emibas or in the 1890 Swedish Census.
Gus might be on an emigration database with another given name (since lots of our ancestors had more than one given name and Gustaf/August might not have been listed first). The parents might not have traveled together. Many husbands went ahead to get a job and a place to live. The name Lund might have been adopted after emigration. Swedes LOVE to change names and most of our ancestors left Sweden with their patronymic (son/daughter) name instead of the name used later.
Stockholm is often listed as a birthplace in Sweden but there are problems with that. Many people just mentioned the name of the nearest big place to where they had lived. They also might have come from the county of Stockholm and not the city of Stockholm and they might have just lived near those places but in a totally different county of Sweden. Even if Stockholm (the city) is correct, you still need to figure out the parish where they lived since records were kept in the parish.
I have even found many situations where people thought their ancestors came from Stockholm but they actually lived in a totally different part of Sweden.
I have found specific birth parishes from Sweden listed in the membership records of Swedish American churches. The Swenson Center has MANY of those church records microfilmed and you can see them there (not online!!) or have them search them for you. Hopefully they joined a Swedish American church but if not, they still might have had their baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and funerals done there and would have been listed in the church records.
The Swenson Center has many excellent records which are difficult or even impossible to find elsewhere but the only ones you can access without hiring them or going there are the microfilmed Swedish American newspapers. I have found detailed obituaries in many of those papers. Those newspapers can be accessed through interlibrary loan. They are in Swedish but it is not hard to pick out names, dates, and locations.
http://www.augustana.edu/swenson/
Records might also be available at the ELCA Archives.
http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/History/ELCA-Archives/Genealogy-and-Microfilm.aspx
This is their genealogical guide for Lutheran Churches.
http://archive.elca.org/archives/chicagochurches/chicago.html
Swedish records are becoming easier to find on the net and the question about Ester was impossible to help with easily years ago when you first asked about her. Perhaps the same will eventually be true with "Gus".
If he was adopted out (and more likely he was a foster child; I don't think I've seen ANY adoptions at that time period in Sweden) and if you are correct about Stockholm, then check out the Stockholm Stadsarkiv. They have some scanned records there but I don't know the completeness. I do know that my farmors far (father's mother's father) was a foster child and he has two scanned records there. Both name his birth mother and his birth date. They also name his foster parents. Maybe you will be lucky too. Enter Gustaf or August without a last name with the year 1882 and maybe you will find the parents' names you know listed as foster parents.
Go to this page and do NOT click on the British flag to change it to English since the database I used is not yet on that site in English.
http://www.ssa.stockholm.se/sv/Forskarsal/Sokvagar/Allmanna-barnhuset/
Look on the right side and you will see a link for "Sök i Allmänna barnhusets rullor, 1798-1907". Click on that.
Look again on the right. Choose the year (År). Skip the last name (Efternamn). Type in Gustaf (or maybe August) in the given name (Förnamn) space. Click on Search (Sök). Look at the choices and a little prayer won't hurt too.
You can move on to the next page by clicking on Next (Nästa) at the bottom of the choices.
The English language version of the page I provided (reached by clicking on the British flag) has a link to the Rotemansarkiv, which will list people living in certain (not all) parts of the city of Stockholm in certain years. The results are in Swedish but at least you can search more easily.
My ancestor was born in Stockholm but actually grew up in a totally different part of Sweden, so you can't expect that the foster parents (if that is what they were) lived in the city of Stockholm.
Good luck!
Judy
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