Information from Sweden!

This morning I received 6 pages of information from Lisbeth Martinsson, from our extended family in Sweden. I am going to put just the beginning information regarding the introduction, and information on our Great-great-great-grandparents (I think that's right -- it starts out with our Great-grandfather Andrew's grandparents. Tomorrow I will post the part about Andrew's parents.

Thank you again, Lisbeth. Lisbeth and her mother compiled this information for us. If anyone has questions for Lisbeth, you can put them in the comments -- Lisbeth reads Time Will Tell. Or you can send them to me and I can forward them on to Lisbeth.
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FAMILY HISTORY

In this part of family history you will find a lot of letters. Every person has his/her own combination of letters. This list begins with the grandparents of Andrew Lundwall (Anders Andersson). The starting-point for the letters in this list is the parents of Andrew. I start giving letters from Anders and his brothers and sisters. For each generation after them a letter is added. The children are given a letter in alphabetic order (A=first born, B=second born…). A boy gets an upper-case letter (A) and a girl a lower-case one (a).

Example: the eldest child is a daughter (a), the daughters third child is a son (aC).

I hope you will understand…

Children often had their father´s first name as a surname. For example, Olov had a daughter Karin, her name became Karin Olovsdotter. His son Hans became Hans Olovsson.

Often they added a name before the real name like “Stadigs”. That name came from the house they where born in. When a woman married she got her husbands added name along with all of the children. So it was a kind of sign so people would know who a person’s parents and grandparents were and where they came from. I think Stadig is an old soldier’s name. Other names could come from a beautiful environment, a special person or a person´s profession. Later many people took their added name as their surname.

I will begin with the grandparents, on his father’s side, to your great-grandfather Andrew who emigrated to America. He was born Anders Andersson and took the name Andrew Lundvall in USA.

Stadigs Olov Andersson born 09-06-1791 in Rexbo, he died 03-12-1863

            Married to Lisbeth Danielsdotter born 11-04-1786, died 01-07-1866

Children:

     Anders             05-04-1821 (Andrew´s father)

     Helena              05-04-1824 died when she was 3 month

     Daniel              1827 died as a baby                        

    

Grandparents on his mother’s side were

Brittas Hans Andersson born 11-30-1777, died 05-03-1833

            Married to Lisbeth Matsdotter born 06-24=1789, died 11-26-1864

Children:

     Anna             01-26-1811

     Anders             04-07-1813

     Lisbeth             04-08-1815

     Carin             01-01-1817 (Andrew´s mother)

     Hans             12-08-1819

     Mats             10-05-1822

     Margta             10-19-1825

     Erik             01-19-1829

     Olov             04-20-1832 died as a baby