Anita's question is hidden in the six volumes of information in her family history publication that we were handed in the library in Öregrund in September 2013.
It's a vital question ... it's the nearest point where we might coincide, where our 'trees' might diverge ... or meet, depending on which way you look at it. It felt like it was the lodestone for me, the one thing that, having found my Great Grandfather Antony's Mates' Certificates (UK), and then that his birthplace was Gamla Karleby, was next on the itinerary towards getting that connections concrete as possible, and a fuller knowledge of the family history. How right that feeling was...
It's a vital question ... it's the nearest point where we might coincide, where our 'trees' might diverge ... or meet, depending on which way you look at it. It felt like it was the lodestone for me, the one thing that, having found my Great Grandfather Antony's Mates' Certificates (UK), and then that his birthplace was Gamla Karleby, was next on the itinerary towards getting that connections concrete as possible, and a fuller knowledge of the family history. How right that feeling was...
- I went back to the Land Inventory, Thussin's Probate document, by using the reference in the SVAR record. For once there was an index in the AD online digitised record, meaning I didn't have to trawl through pages of Swedish names! Having said that, I have read so many names that eventually turn up as 'someone-to-do-with-us' it's been good liminal / peripheral reading...
- Thussin Söderman died in December 1772 and his will was published the next March. By now, and named in the document, his sons were 16 year-old Johan and the 10 year-old twins Anders and Anton, born 16th October 1762. Anders' names always comes before Anton's, so I wonder if that's their birth order? Their mother was Lena Greta Blank, who had died in March 1768. Later that year Thuffin married Caisa Schiwert, found as a piga (servant) in their household from 1767. In their mother's Probate the three boys' legal guardian is her brother, Anders Blank, but he has died.
- The children are sent away to interim guardians until male relatives from their birth family can be found for a more permanent home for them. Johan is to stay with the local priest, called Johan Lystadius, possibly the brother of one of the witnesses for his birth, Caisa Stina Lystadius. Anton and Anders are split up - Anders goes to Öregrund, to be with Hans Ålenning; Anton is sent to Rångsen to be with Tussin Henrichsson. Neither of whom I have been able to find!
- In 1789 the household records show that Johan and Anton are living together in the house of Peter Oberg (b 1740), in no 14 Forste Roten, Öregrund. But no Anders!