Help with Household Examination Sweden, Gävleborg, Alfta 1851-1855 A, page 69
It list Elias Carlgren's widow Anna Alftren with three children including Anna Katrina born Oäkta April 8, 1855. I know that Elias Carlgren married Anna Alftren and that the other two children listed were theirs. Elias died in 1851. It also lists Anders Carlsson who came from Kyrkbyn 24 with Anna Alftren in 1854. I cannot read the comments to the right of Anna Katrina's and Anders Carlsson's names. They may say that Anders is the father of Anna Katrina. There is more information in the comments that I cannot read. (There is more about these same people on Page 43 of the same record.) Also the word Inhyses is shown above Anders Carlsson's name. Does that refer to him or to the girl above born in 1830?
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Note on Anna: 20 May 1855 –
Ensk. Skrift för lönskal. Med veterligt gift man.
personal confession for fornication (a crime before 1855) with a known married man.
Note on Anna Katrina:
Erk. Fader nedanstående And. Karlsson
The recognized father listed below, Anders Karlsson
Note on Anders:
Enfalding Kunskap
Simple understanding
Gift med I Stockholm boende Dorothea Charlotte Hjort, med hvilken han uppgifves hafvas 2 levande barn. Erkänt sig vara fader till Enkan Carlgrens dotter Anna Catharina, född d. 8 April 1855
Married to Stockholm resident Dorothea Charlotte Hjort, with whom he had two children. He confessed to being the father of the Widow Carlgrens daughter Anna Catharina, born 8 April 1855
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Inhyses refers to Karl, which indicates he was living for free at #16. He was a baker/journeyman.
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Hi #[Dale Anderson_6] ,
Fornication was a crime before 1864. The 1855 date probably came from a mistake in my class handout on the subject. I fixed the mistake and have uploaded the new version to the FamilySearch Wiki see https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/img_auth.php/b/b6/Find_the_Unknown_Father_in_Sweden.pdf.
The Ensk. Skrift (personal confession) was done privately with the pastor and a few men in an office compared to public confession in front of the congregation. The change from public to private happened in 1741. In 1855 the courts no longer ordered kyrkoplikt (the public or private confession) as part of the punishment.
It's odd that the pastor wrote lönskaläge (fornication) and also stated that the man was married in the same comment. It should have been noted as enkelt hor (adultery where one partner was married and the other was not). Adultery was a crime until 1937.
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Thanks for another opportunity to say thank you for all your help. You helped us extensively during our several visits to the library in Salt Lake. My great grandfather, the immigrant was the first of four illegitimate children born to Clara Louisa Larsdotter in Hova Parish, Skaraborg Lan. Reading the link you provided above, she should have faced substantial fines. Where would I look to find any records of the fines?
PS: I finally did track down the ancestry of Emily/Emma Christine Vredberg ( born Johansson) who we could not find while there at the library. With your and an elderly gentleman's help reading and translating, several pages of her journal provided clues. In it she mentions a grandfather, an uncle and others with names, dates and places. Tracking them lead me conclusively to the fact that her birth name was Ingrid Kristina. The names, dates and locations all line up. When she got to the United States, she apparently thought that Emily/Emma was more American than Ingrid. I could never have done it without you and the others.
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@Morris Geoffrey Fröberg Se ovanför 😊
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