1783 Moving Certificate
Could someone help with a translation of at least the important details? Anna Stina Berggren, wife of Johan Sandberg from Heckeberga (castle near Genarp in Malmöhus County) ???? I would like to know if this says where she was born and was she going to or from Lyngby in 1783? Is anything else mentioned that might help me place her in another location? Shoemaker Johan Caspersson Sandberg and Anna Stina have been a brick wall for a long time. This is the first document I've found with her maiden name. Their son Johan Niclas was apparently born in Sallerup in 1766, but 30 years of those church records from that time period are lost. Thank you. Linda Stufflebean
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what I read:
Skomakaren Johan Sandbergs hustru Anna Stina Berggren från Ke_ti_berga? lämnas til bevis, att hon i det ärende är stadd, att hos Herrskapet? på Wegeholm i ödmukhet söka hielp och bot för den bedröf_eligen fallande sot, hvilken henne för siu åhr sedan åkomit, och allt mer och mer för åkts?. Des tilstånd är så mycket ömkans och beklagans wärdare, som hon i största fattigdom har fyra små barn, hvilket på begäran intygas af
Lyngby den 20 oct: 1783 Joh: Chr: Lundins Cominister loci
Translation:
The wife of the shoemaker Johan Sandberg, Anna Stina Berggren from Ke_ti_berga?, is given as proof that she is in the position to seek help and remedy from the Lordship? at Wegeholm in humility for the deplorable falling sickness, which has come to her for two years ago, and more and more has come over her..?. This condition is so much more pitiful and regrettable, as she has four small children in the greatest poverty, which is attested on request by
Lyngby den 20 oct: 1783 Joh[an] Chr[istian] Lundins, local pastoral adjunct
Comment:
I would not read the location as "Heckeberga"; the initial letter seems to me more like a "K". Wegeholm (now written Vegeholm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegeholm_Castle) is a castle south of Ängelholm.
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Thank you so much for this translation. The Sandbergs have been a brick wall for many years and I'm finally learning more about them. I do still think the castle is Heckeberga because they lived in Genarp for many years. Heckeberga is just down the road and the mantals tax records mention Heckberga in a short note.
I do have one more question, though. Why would Anna Stina be trying to get help from Vegeholm, which was 60 miles away from where the Sandbergs lived. Might she have been born there?
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Hello Linda,
when investigating Wegeholm castle I found an old description here: http://runeberg.org/skanskahg/0071.html
In particular this paragraph is interesting:
Translation:
His sisters, Misses Charlotta Maria and Wilhelmina Ulrica Cedercrantz, survived him for a long time. They were widely known and respected for their generosity and untiring charity. As owners of Wegeholm, Spannarp and Rögla in Scania, as well as Svaneholm and some smaller estates in Jönköping County, they were in a position to follow the inclinations of their generous hearts. [...] An pharmacy was established at Wegeholm, where the sick of the estate received medicines free of charge and where an apothecary was employed. In the vaulted castle porch at Wegeholm a table was set daily, to which access was open to the poor; these also flocked there from all sides, and never did anyone go hungry or unaided from there. A large window was placed in one wall of the gateway; from there the noble misses used to see that the poor were fed generously, and on certain days of the week money was distributed from there. [...]
The sisters died 1793 and 1814, respectively.
Regarding the home place of Anna Stina, I think it must belong to the parish of Lyngby because it is the pastoral adjunct of that parish who writes the attestation. Heckeberga belongs to the parish of Genarp. A possible location could be Hässleberga (old spelling Hessleberga) which is about 1 mile SW of Lyngby (see map below). Still, the handwritten notation is not fully clear to me.
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The odd thing about Lyngby, though, is that Johan Caspersson Sandberg is on the tax list for Genarp for every year from 1777 until 1800, when he died there. The family is also in the Household Examinations.
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