Sweden - Translation of Notes
Anna Lena Larsdotter, born 4 August 1819 is shown with a daughter, Anna Maja, born 5 October 1848 in Vendels.
There are several notes on the clerical survey. They seem to be about Per Berg of Söderfors but also about her marriage to Lindholm.
Please help me sort this out.
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Vendels kyrkoarkiv, Husförhörslängder, SE/ULA/11683/A I/13a (1852-1856), bildid: C0005394_00203, sida 189:
Transcription:
Hon, som i Dannemora varit Kyrkotagen, såsom dräng Per Bergs i Söderfors fästeqvinna, blef genom Dom[kapitlets] skiljebref d. 28/2 1849 från k__? lagligen skiljd och sedan d 23/6 1849 gift med Lindholm, sedan hon förut med Lindholm sammanaflat Dottern Anna Maja
Translation:
She, who in Dannemora was kyrkotagen (introduced to the church) as the farmhand Per Berg's fiancée in Söderfors, was legally divorced from k__? by the divorce certificate of the cathedral chapter dated 28 Feb 1849 and since 23 June 1849 married to Lindholm, after she had previously had the daughter Anna Maja with Lindholm.
Vendels kyrkoarkiv, Husförhörslängder, SE/ULA/11683/A I/12a (1846-1851), bildid: C0005392_00177, sida 162:
Transcription:
Enl. prästbetyg fr. Dannemora _ kyrkotagen såsom Drängen Per Bergs vid Örby fästeqvinna
Translation:
According to the priest's certificate from Dannemora _ kyrkotagen as farmhand Per Berg's in Örby fiancée
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So the divorce is from Per Berg correct? Was he living in Söderfors in 1849 when she gets married to Lindholm. I see from his move out record that he is shown moving to Uppsala. I have not found him there yet. When I went to Söderfors and there is a person register and he is not listed in 1846-1850 book.
Anna Maja's birth record. There seems to be a note there as well.
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0005418_00095\
Per Berg 1844-1847 with note
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0005392_00161
Per Berg 1847 moving out record with note.
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Anna Lena is called Per Berg's fästeqvinna, which approximately means "officially engaged", but not married. Apparently she needed a divorce certificate when she wanted to marry someone else.
The note in Anna Maja's birth record is difficult to read because of unsharpness, but here is what I can make out: kyrkt[agen] 30/3 49 såsom ___ Lindholms(?) i Kjettslinge(?) fästeqvinna. The word oägta (illegitimate) is crossed out.
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I have not come across this before so I am trying to create a timeline so I understand.
Anna Lena Larsdotter is born in Tegelsmora and moves out 22/10 1838 to Dannemora. In Tegelsmora there is no note on the clerical record or in the lysnings book about any connection to Per Berg.
In Dannemora there is a note on the clerical record that looks like it says godfräge, asks for permission is what I got on translating it.
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0003312_00067
Then 13/6 1843 she gives birth to Anna Stina, oäkta but there is a note about her being Per Berg's fästeqvinna but I have not been able to find any record of an engagement in the books here. Note: Anna Stina dies 25/2 1844 in Dannemora.
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0003327_00019
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0003313_00060
She moves to Vendel 1/11 1845. Where the note about her being connected to Per Berg continues.
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0005392_00177
If she was "officially engaged" wouldn't there be a record in the lysnings book?
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The term of interest here is trolovning (betrothal). A fästeqvinna was a woman who had entered into a betrothal, i.e., a private contract (before witnesses) to enter into marriage. Here is a description from the Swedish Genealogy Forum ( https://forum.rotter.se/index.php?topic=132516.0):
The betrothals - the contracts - could of course be oral or written, but they were always private (compare with an ordinary contract for the sale of movable property!) and so they are not preserved in any public archive. Unless there was a fight over them, of course, or one of the parties wanted to break the betrothal. Betrothals that somehow broke down can therefore be found in three places:
in an ordinary court if one of the parties did not want to go ahead and get married (the aggrieved party sued for broken marriage vows, wanted back any betrothal gifts and often also money to reimburse for things spent on the planned wedding/later marital life (typical example, paid rent for a farm))
in the cathedral chapter if you wanted to break the betrothal
in the church records if a betrothal child was born.However, there is no trace of ordinary betrothals that ended in marriage, unless we are talking about high nobles who wrote long contracts of several pages that were then preserved in estate or family archives.
Children born to a fästeqvinna (so-called trolovningsbarn) had almost the same status as children born in wedlock. And their mother was "taken to church" in the same way as a married mother, whereas unmarried mothers who had no fästeqvinna status had to confess and to stand on their knees on the church floor.
Regarding Anna Lena, my understanding is the following: She entered into a betrothal with Per Berg around the time of Anna Stina's birth in 1844, and she was still his fästeqvinna when she gave birth to Anna Maja in October 1848 (they never married). The cathedral chapter officially cancelled the betrothal in February 1849, and Anna Lena married in June 1849 Anders Lindholm, who apparently was the father of Anna Maja.
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@Ulrich Neitzel So the Lynsings book records the engagements at the time the banns are read but if the banns were never read then there won't be a record of them in the book. Do I have this correct? The only record that might be found is the cathedral or maybe court records. Is that correct?
Thank you for teaching me about this. I am so grateful.
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You are right that the Lysnings books do not contain engagements/betrothals (trolovning). Also, not all couples were betrothed before marriage. Banns were always read before marriage.
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Thank you. I will work on putting this all together.
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