Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Our Family in Sweden, Part 3

I find Inger Dahlberg’s birth at Lane-Ryr, Göteborg och Bohus lan, recorded as Okt. 9, 1813 and christening on the 10th. Her parents Johannes Bryngelsson and Kerstin Bryngelsdotter. The mother was 24. Birth was at Skäleröd. The household on the farm Tegelbruket included Elin Svensdotter, the sav mor, or step-mother. In this record – household record, 1812 to 1815 – the Dahlberg name is used, though it wasn’t in the birth record.

Another record – Household Record, 1814 to 1819 -  shows the family has left this farm and gone to another as of 1815. The gothic script is difficult to read, but it may be that the family moved to Anfasterud, a farm in the Dals-ed parish, in Älvsborg lan.

I identify the sources I used here because they are at odds with other family histories. The parents’ dates given here are: Johannes, 3/5 [1]787 and Kerstin, [1]790.

Dals lan, Alvsborgs lan and Bohus lan are all connected at the northern part of today’s Västra Götaland county. A quick glance at parish maps shows familiar placenames: Grinneröd, Myckleby, Udavalla, Resteröd, Lane-Ryr, Stora Lundby. In effect, farmers did not move far.


Not until farms failed did moving farther away make sense. 

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