Reading Place Name
Hello! I am so bad at reading Sweden place names. My ancestor, Cherstin Larsdotter, born 1775 lived in Sunne, Varmland, Sweden and I'm tracking her with the Household Examinations. I'm having a hard time reading where she moved to here and was hoping someone could decipher it for me. Thanks! I'll include the link and the picture.
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This page helps to know what the village names are -- as possibilities for what that word could be:
As I look for the same record with a better photo, I went here to find the same household survey:
and looking at AI: 19 I see that AI: 20 is the east side of the parish.
Opening up both of those, it turns out, at the end of the books, the scribe has written a list of place names, as an index to places. Together, these three pages of place names are hopefully going to be very helpful.
I did think that the first place word started with "Bj", but in the clearer photo it doesn't look like a B anymore. Looking for a similar first letter on a nearby page . . . On page 195 of that record, last entry, "Kjerstin" --- it looks Just Like your mystery place word.
With an H starting the second word
Searched for "Kjers*h" and "Kris*h", limiting to Värmlans län
Best looking results:
Kristenheten, in Övre Ulleruds parish ---very close to Sunne parish
Kjersti Hamn parish, Värmland -- actual spelling: Kristinehamn (this one is not as close to Sunne)
Hope one of these pans out!
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I don't believe that it is a place name. I think it is a person name Kjerstin Håkansdotter. Next line has also a person name Nils Nilsson. This means that Cherstin Larsdotter moved to the house of Kjerstin Håkansdotter (most likely a widow woman). It doesn't say the place name so you need to search them page by page. I believe Kjerstin Håkansdotter also lived in Sunne parish.
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hahaha! glad we have the experts on it!
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I believe that your Kjerstin Larsdotter is on the next page (p.200). That record is here: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0038945_00214#?c=&m=&s=&cv=213&xywh=260%2C1285%2C2936%2C1434. And there is a widow Cherstin Håk(ansdotter) listed on the page.
The record on page 200 says she move to Brygarregården in 1794. She is here on that page: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0038945_00205#?c=&m=&s=&cv=204&xywh=434%2C1002%2C3018%2C1586.
There is no indication that she moved, so she should be in the same place in the next Household Examination records for Sunne.
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