In the first record:

Line 6 lists John Olsson.

Line 11 lists Nils Persson

It looks like those two lines were not indexed because there is no birth information for them.

Most of the time where there is a break between households on the farm, a line will be skipped. but in the case of lines 4&5, and lines 6,7,&8, I would say that are not related because line 4&5 moved out in 1881, and lines 6,7,&8 moved in in 1885.

People are crossed out in these records when they moved away from the property or when they died.

oad = illegiimate.

You would need to prove it, but I would be suspicious that the John Olsson on line 1is the same person as the John Olsson on line 6. I really wonder if he moved away, had his wife die, remarried a woman with a child, then moved backed. You would have to trace him through the books and see if it really is him who comes back here.

You'd be better off if one of the people really good in Swedish research that belong to this group sees this and explains this. The handwriting is a bit beyond me.

But looking at the three records for Pernilla together, I notice now that in the 1881-1885 book it says Piga before her name so she and John were not married yet. There is the same note in this book across from Pernilla name as in the later one. It does look like it has Hustru, that is, wife, before her name in the 1886-1890 book, and that same note is there, also. So there are three copies to use to try to figure out what it says.

I think the 1886-1890 note is the clearest and I'll also mention here that I like the Swedish National Archives record viewer better than Family Search's. The zoom is better. You can find this same page here: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0062690_00146 and this view of the note:

Lysning til äkteskap för henne ... ... Enkl Nils Persson i Degeberge afk. 3 gg: år 1877.

Banns for marriage for her and .... Enkl(?) Nils Persson in Degeberge (maybe: read three times?) year 1877.

This makes sense since her illegitimate daughter Elna was born in Degeberge in 1877. I wonder what happened to the engagement? It certainly sounds like the marriage fell through. I would check in the Degeberge records and see if Nils was Elna's father or not.

I've seen this before in these clerical surveys that one's past life is impossible to escape from. Twenty years after a failed engagement, this is still being recorded for Pernilla.

I'm not sure what the term in the second column is which is her station in life. It starts out Hushåll.. which I think would be household, so maybe household help? Looking at the surrounding pages, all the wives have an H for hustru before before their names and Pernilla does not. So it looks like I am misreading the 1881-1885 book and that is not a capitol H before her name there and she and John were never married and she was just a housekeeper for him.

Sorry this is just a bunch of guesses. I hope someone else can give you a better explanation of all this.

Hi mikesampson,

Thanks Gordon for your work to look over this. I read it as:

Engagement toward marriage for her and the laborer widower Nils Persson of Degeberga. I’m not sure of the next abbreviation but the 3 gg år 1877 means 3 times in the year 1877. Given the context, it refers to the public banns that normally were done 3 Sundays in a row.

Being engaged was legally binding. If a couple was engaged but then the wedding was called off, then the couple had to formally undo the engagement.

Sorry for the delay, hope this helps.

Geoff