Our Family in Sweden, Part two

While I continue to look through records in Sweden I will present this short family record of Swen and Inger.

Samuel Backman married Charlotta Bruhn in January 1812.

On October 1, 1812 Swen’s birth was recorded at Lilla Lunden in the Resteröd Parish. I believe I am seeing him as the fourth child, but only Britta is named as being born in 1809. I am uncertain if she was born of an earlier marriage, this record makes a point that she is a sister of Swen.

In the next record, Ana Marie and Sofia Christine are included, having been born at the same place, but the record notes that they have all moved to Turebacken, another farm in the parish.

Charlotta passed away in Turebacken on the 29^th of April, 1823. There is a note that she died of “colik” and was buried on the 8^th of May. Samuel married Elin Hansdotter in December 1824, at which time Ana Marie and Britta are no longer in the household, with Ana’s name crossed through, suggesting she had died.

I must thank those family historians and genealogists who came before me. I mean no disregard of their efforts when I try to locate and read the same original documents they have obviously used.

Two family trees I have come upon www.ancestry.com are Dahlberg/Fogelberg/Borneus Slakttrad and Kennington Nelson Family Tree. These have given me direction for my search. These sources, with others, show Inger as the eldest of seven children born to Johannes Bryngelsson Dahlberg and Kerstin Bryngelsdotter.

In DISBYT, self-acknowledged as a secondary source, I find Bryngel Persson, believed to be the father of Kerstin, in Toftedal, Älvsborgs lan. His parents are listed as Per Anfastsson and Chirsti [sic] Nilsdotter. He is the third child.

In Stora Rinnane I find a household record with Per and Kerstin living at the same place as their son Ander Parsson. In another record, I found the July 26, 1717 birth of Per, the son of Anfast Bryngelsson and Ingrid Sigfridsdotter in that parish.

 The deaths of Kerstin, on June 26, 1795 (or 1796) and Per, on January 26, 1797 each occurred in Stora Rinnane, Töftedal, Älvsborg lan.

These short histories have much information missing still. Because my main activity over several years has been to identify the descendants of Swen and Inger, I am going to go forward with that. I have enjoyed the study of Swedish records. Challenging as it has been, when I have realized I found another item it has been thrilling. I invite you to do this for yourselves.