After the death of her parents, she inherited her childhood cottage, Fanjunkars, originally called Bruses.

Lönnqvist had a small saving capital and occasionally earned some money catering at weddings and funerals.

In addition to catering, she even taught girls from larger manor houses how to take care of the household.

It was regarded improper for a male to live alone with a female of the same class (in which neither was employed by the other), and this caused rumors that they were lovers.

[3] Charlotta Lönnqvist participated in charity, and her relief work during the famine of 1866-1868 ruined her.