Sympathy Saturday - Lighting candles at cemeteries in Sweden

At the Pet Cemetery in Helsingborg

Today,  November 1st is All Saints Day in Sweden. A lot of Swedes goes to a cemetery lighting candles. This year it is even possible to light a candle through a webpage at certain cemeteries.


It is really a beautiful sight to visit a cemetery this day when its gotten dark, lit candles everywhere and even the local pet cemetery is filled with candles.

Råå kyrkogård, Helsingborg.
Erik och Lilly Kvist

Kropp Cemetery

Kropp Cemetery

Tombstone Tuesday - Servant Nils Lundin at Rosendal

Last night was the second episode of the Swedish version of Who Do You Think You Are. The celeb of the day was Mia Skäringer. Since she is from the Värmland area I was quite surprised when she suddenly showed up in Helsingborg. Even more surprised, and truly happy, when she went to the Rosendal castle nearby. It turned out she had a relative who worked as a servant at the castle, Nils Lundin,  and his daughter Olivia was born there in 1859.

A couple of months ago I registerd tombstones at the cemetery of Kropp that was inventoried in the 1990s. ( Database found here: http://www.genealogi.se/gravproj/Gravsoklist.php ). I recognized the name so I did a search and sure I found it.

Now, it would have been awesome if Mia had visited the cemetery as well, looking at the tombstone, when she was in the area. The cemetery is only a few kilometers from the castle. Maybe she was, it wasn't shown on TV in that case.

The stone is not in its original place, it has been moved but is kept and it is integrated in the stonewall surrounding the cemetery.

So, I went there and took a new picture of the stone today.

Tombstone in the wall - Servant Nils Lundin and his wife Hanna Lundin. Nils worked
at the Rosendal castle

It is quite hard to read but is say Nils Lundin. If you move the stones on the ground away you will see his wife's name Hanna as well.

Hard to read but is says Nils Lundin

View of Kropp cemetery with the wall in the background

Tuesday's Tip - Tombstone inventory in Sweden

There is a tombstone inventory going on in Sweden. The inventory database is hosted by the Swedish Genealogy Society (Sveriges släktforskarförbund) and it is free.

To look at it, head to http://www.genealogi.se/gravproj/Gravsoklist.php It is all in Swedish.

Either you can do a search on a name, Förnamn = First name and Efternamn = Surname and you have the choices of

• börjar med - begins with
• innehåller - contains
• innehåller inte - does not contain
• exakt - exact

You can do a search on a birthdate (Födelsedatum) or death date (Dödsdatum). The format to use is YYYYMMDD. Keep in mind that not always are the whole date written on the stone. You have a couple of choices here as well

• exakt - exact
• innehåller - contains
• innehåller inte - does not contain
• börjar med - begins with
• mellan - between

And then you have the smaller than, smaller or equal, larger than and larger or equal signs.

The inventory started many years ago and was collected in another database. There wasn't as many searchcriterias and pictures could not be attached. If you wanted a picture of the stone you had found in the database you had to send for it.

All the old posts from the old database are being typed in (manually) into the new one. Also new posts are being typed in. I am working on Kropp Cemetery (Län: Skåne, Kommun: Helsingborg) where there was an inventory in the early 90s. In the new database I am attaching a photo, if there is any and to most of the entries I have taken a new picture as well, and the record from the old inventory. I am also adding what kind of material the stone is made of, what shape and size.

Right now there are 107 208 tombstones in the database containing 238 961 names. New records are added everyday. The good thing with this database is that at some cemeteries they dont remove the stones even if the right to the grave has exceeded. Perhaps they put them in a special spot or sometimes you will see old stones integrated in the walls surrounding the cemetery. Those stones you probably wont find in any official records but you will find then in the inventory database.

If you know exactly where to search for you can use the Län - County, Kommun - Municipality and then you will see the cemeteries in the list in Begravningsplats.

For example:

I choose Län:  Skåne län, Kommun: Helsingborg and then I can pick any of the cemeteries in the list.

And if you look closely, meanwhile I have written this and since I took the first sceenshot there are now +30 tombstones and +47 new names in the database, so, it is growing.

Hope you can find this database of some use if you have Swedish ancestors.

Thriller Thursday - The priest who committed suicide

A couple of years ago I moved to Kropp and moving there ofcourse made me curious of the history of that specific area. Who lived there before me, what did they do and how were thier lives? So, I digged into the different churchrecords and I was browsing the books (found online at ArkivDigital, Ancesty and SVAR) and looking at the deathbook I found an intersting note:

Someone had commited suicide on February 5 in 1892 by hanging himself. There was also written that the suicide was commited when not being sane.

Kropp FI:2 page 42

I know during a period of time, if you committed suicide you were not being put to rest in the cemetery and/or there would be a quiet funeral (no church bells). But if you wasn't sane when commiting suicide you could have your grave in the cemetery and so on. I guess that is why that little note was written in the deathbook and I see it often when the cause of death is suicide.

Now this wasn't just anyone who had commited suicide. It happend to be the priest himself, Reinhold Malte Viktor Matthisen. I took a trip to the library who has the newspapers on microfilm to see what I could find. I found articles in both Helsingborgs Dagblad and Öresundposten. First they thought he had died from a stoke due to that he had been not all well lately, but still his death came as a surprise. He had been the priest in Kropp since 1887.

Helsingborgs Dagblad February 6 1892 

Then a couple of days later, they wrote he died from committing suicide. I like reading old articles and I almost do it on a daily basis. There is a huge difference on what those articles contained compared to nowadays. If there was an accident you can often read exactly what kind if injuries and if someone like in this case, committed suicide, it was printed out. Also, in this case with Malte, it is almost like gossip. There were serveral articles in just a couple of days.

Helsingborgs Dagblad February 8 1892

It seems to had been just a normal day. Malte had been in Helsingborg for some errands during the day. Later that night he hung himself.

Malte was born in 1838 Visby, on the beautiful island Gotland outside the east coast of Sweden. His father was the mayor, S I Matthisen and his mother was Oliva Taga Sofia von Lieven.

Visby stadsförsamling C 10

Before Malte came to Kropp, he was in Härnösand. It seems like he had good salary in Härnösand. He had a good economic situation and he and his family lived a good life. Then they came to Kropp and probably got into economic problems. Finally, he didnt see anyway out and killed himself, all this according to the newspaper articles.

Visby, Härnösand and Kropp

In a priestmeeting in 1871 he held the memoryspeech over priests that had past away. He also published "Ny matrikel öfver Hernösands stift" in 1882. The article below describes him as not very "priestlike" but that he was quite popular in the parish.

From Öresundsposten February 6 1892

Malte had a big family. He and his wife Hedda Charlotta Hjerne (b October 18, 1838) got married on November 21 in 1862. They had seven children.

• Ester Hedda Olivia, born July 27, 1866
• Ruth Taga Lucia, born November 11, 1867
• Malte Gabriel, born May 13, 1870
• Harald Jeaek, born June 1, 1876
• Svante Johan, born December 21, 1876
• Dagmar Gustava Teresia, born August 16, 1879
• Hedvig Elenora, born June 30, 1883

Obituary Helsingborgs Dagblad February 6 1892

It is a sad story, but it doesnt end. Later that year, on Christmas Day, the mother Hedda dies. Cause of death is written as "vattusot" which in modern day would be some kind of oedema.

Kropp FI:2 page 47

Tombstone: Malte and Hedda at Kropp Cemetery

Church in Kropp

Anna Lindholm from Kropp, Sweden, emigrates in 1893 to USA

One of my favorite records on Ancestry is the US Passport Applications. You can get a lot of information about a person looking at those records. Birthdate and birthplace, if the person is an immigrant you can find the year of immigration, what ship they came on, how long they have been a US citizen. Color of eyes and hair. A description of the nose, the mouth and chin. Length. And if you are lucky, there is a photo.

Just for fun, I did a search on people born in Kropp, Sweden and I came up with a couple of matches. I picked one of them, Anna Lindholm, born in Kropp January 26 in 1858. In 1919 she has been in the US for 26 years, she and her husband lives in Webster, Wisconsin and she is a house keeper. She is going to Sweden to visit relatives.

She is 61 years old and she got blue eyes.

Anna was born in 1858, so I looked into the house exam roll for 1858 - 1860 from Kropp. There she is at Holk nr 4. Her father was Per Svensson, b 1829 and her mother Elna Andersdotter born in 1833. In this book she has three siblings, two older brothers, Nils born in 1854 and Sven born in 1856. She also had a little sister, Hanna, born 1859 but she died in 1860.

Anna with parents and siblings 1858 - 1860
Kropp AII 13 1858 - 1860 page 60

A couple of years later, in 1871 - 1875, the family has grown, now it is Per and Elna, the children Nils, Sven Anna, Anders (b 1861), Petronella (b 1863), Hanna (b 1865), Jöns (b 1867), Johannes (b 1870), Peter (b 1872) and Gustaf (b 1874).

Anna and her family in 1871 - 1875
Kropp AI:16 1871 - 1875 page 92

 According to the passport Anna emigrated in 1893. I did a lookup at the database Emibas and it says she, her husband Nils Lindholm, a preacher and thier son, Carl Oskar Emanuel Nilsson Lindholm emigrated to the US from Hybo, Ljusdal. For some reason I cant find them in the Ljusdal churckbook, but I found Carl Oskar Emanuel in the birthbook, with the note of unbaptized..

Carl Oskar Emanuel with his parents and the note "odöpt" (unbaptized)
Ljusdal CI:9 page 167

Looking into the US census of 1910 I find the family in Meenon township, Burnett, Wisconsin: N A Lindholm, with wife Annie and son Chas O E all from Sweden, immigrated in 1893. Then there is a daughter Ruth A (age 16) born in South Dakota, a son Joseph P (age 14) born in Minnesota, a son Enoch G (age 13) born in Iowa and a daughter Annie E (age 11) born in Minnesota.

US Census 1910, Meenon, Burnett, Wisconsin

Below is a picture of the church in Kropp.

Church in Kropp

Church Record Sunday - list of idiots and more

At times when browsing the Swedish church books you run into people where there is a little note, like deaf, blind or idiot.

The first relative of mine I found with such a note was my grandmothers aunt, Hilma Charlotta Hansdotter. She was born in 1875 and due to a disease she turned deaf. So, in the house exam roll of Tving, 1876 - 1888, after her name the priest have noted deaf numb.

Himla Charlotta came to the deaf numb school in Lund where she got an education. She married Ernst Victor Samuelsson, who also was deaf. Hilma Charlotta died in 1913 from tuberculosis.

Hilma Charlotta, deafnumb Tving AI:31 1876-1884 page 457

Now, there is more than just those little notes in the margin. Complete lists with for example what was at the time called idiots. This is a list of idiots in Mörrum, 1920 - 1937.

Idiots Mörrum 1920 - 1937

Below is a list of Churchboard members of Kropp in 1915 - 1926.

Churchboard members Kropp 1915 - 1926

Other lists that might be found could be children in foster care, mentally ill people and people with from a foreign country to name a few.

P N Ramberg and Ingar Ramberg, buried at Kropp cemetery

My walk around the gravestones at Kropp cemetery continues. I get a little curious when the full name isn't printed out on the gravestone so today I picked a stone like that and with only years without dates: P N Ramberg (1835-1901) and Ingar Ramberg (1827-1907).

According to the stone, P N Ramberg was a farmer, living in Hjortshög and Ingar was his wife.

Paul Nicolaus Ramberg and his
wife Ingar Ramberg (b Persdotter)

P N, which stands for Paul (or Pål) Nicolaus, was born in Kropp at a place called Gravarehuset, on April 19 in 1835. His father was Lars Ramberg, a shoemaker, and his mother was Bengta Wittgren. Paul grew up at Grvarehuset and in 1851 he moved to Björka to work as a farmhand. In 1853 he came back to Gravarehuset then moved on to Hyllstorp 2.

Pål Nicolaus in Kropp CI:3 (1831-1860) page 35 

Ingar Persdotter was born on December 30 1827. Father Per Nilsson and mother Karna Jönsdotter. They lived at Västraby 4. In 1850 Ingar moved and worked at Kropp 2. In 1852 Ingar moved back to Västraby 4 where her mother Karna died in 1856 and her father Per in 1857. 1857 Ingar moves to work at Hyllstorp 2, the same place where Paul lives and works. If they didn't know each other before this point this must be where they met.

Ingar Persdotter in Kropp CI:2 (1758-1830) page 347

On October 28 1865 Paul and Ingar gets married. The move back to the house where Paul grew up, Gravarehuset.  

Gravarehus in Kropp, where Paul was born and where
he and his wife Ingar lived between 1865 to 1868.

In February 1868 Pauls mother Bengta dies and on June 28 in 1868, Ingar give birth  to a girl who is stillborn. The girl is buried on July 2. In November the same year Paul and Ingar moves to Helsingborg. They live in a area called Närlunda. They stay in Helsingborg for two years. In 1870 they move to Hjorthög 3 in Mörarp. On May 2 in 1870 thier daugther Lovisa is born. In 1872, March 22, they have a son, Peter.

Hjortshög 3 where Paul and Ingar lives until they die and
where thier son Peter lives with his wife Anna Kristina.

Paul and Ingar stays on Hjortshög 3 until they die. Paul dies on February 6 in 1901 and Ingar on  March 2 in 1907. They are buried at the cementary in Kropp.

Thier two children, Peter and Lovisa are buired at the same cemetary.

Lovisa get married on December 29 in 1900 (just about a little more a month before her father Paul dies) to August Strandqvist born September 7, 1864 in Raus. He is a butcher. August bought a piece of land in 1900 from a man called Nils Knutsson and they build a house (Hjortshög 8). August dies on January 5 in 1916 at the hospital in Helsingborg from appendictis. Lovisa takes over the house and in 1921 she lease it to her son-in-law, Erik Andersson. Lovisa dies January 11 in 1954.

Hjortshög 8. The house August Strandqvist builds and
where he lives with his wife Lovisa Ramberg and she
later leases to her son-in-law Erik Andersson.

Peter marries Anna Kristina Andersson (born June 26, 1870 in Kropp) on May 2 in 1903. At some point  they move to Hjortshög 3 (Paul and Ingars house) where they live thier whole life. Peter died on March 27 in 1921 and  Anna in 1940 on October 23. Thier daughter, Elsa Linnea (September 5 1905 - June 1 1925) is also buried in this familygrave. She died from tuberculosis, 19 years old.

Familygrave of Peter Ramberg. Peter
 and his wife Anna Kristina and their
daughter Elsa Linnea is buried here.

Source:

Ingar:
Kropp CI:2 (1758-1830) page 347 (AID: v107315.b184.s347, NAD: SE/LLA/13216)

Kropp AI:4 (1827-1830) page 22 (AID: v107294.b27.s22, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Västraby nr 4

Kropp AI:5 (1831-1833) page 23 (AID: v107295.b29.s23, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Västraby nr 4

Kropp AI:6 (1834-1835) page 23 (AID: v107296.b24.s23, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Västraby nr 4

Kropp AI:7 (1836-1837) page 23 (AID: v107297.b30.s23, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Västraby nr 4

Kropp AI:8 (1838-1839) page 22 (AID: v107298.b27.s22, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Västraby nr 4

Kropp AI:9 (1840-1842) page 21 (AID: v107299.b27.s21, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Västraby nr 4

Kropp AI:10 (1843-1849) page 28 (AID: v107300.b29.s28, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Västraby nr 4

Kropp AI:11 (1849-1852) page 35 (AID: v107301.b36.s35, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Västraby nr 4 1849 - 1850

Kropp AI:11 (1849-1852) page 45 (AID: v107301.b47.s45, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Kropp nr 2 1850 - 1852

Kropp AI:11 (1849-1852) page 35 (AID: v107301.b36.s35, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Västraby nr 4 1852

Kropp AI:12 (1853-1857) page 40 (AID: v107302.b44.s40, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Westerby -> Hyllstorp 1857 

Paul Nikolaus:
Kropp CI:3 (1831-1860) page 35 (AID: v107316.b22.s35, NAD: SE/LLA/13216)

Kropp AI:6 (1834-1835) page 47 (AID: v107296.b51.s47, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Grafvarehuset

Kropp AI:7 (1836-1837) page 45 (AID: v107297.b56.s45, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Grafvarehuset

Kropp AI:8 (1838-1839) page 45 (AID: v107298.b52.s45, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Grafvarehuset

Kropp AI:9 (1840-1842) page 45 (AID: v107299.b51.s45, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Grafvarehuset

Kropp AI:10 (1843-1849) page 53 (AID: v107300.b54.s53, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Grafvarehuset

Kropp AI:11 (1849-1852) page 58 (AID: v107301.b61.s58, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Grafvarehuset 1849-1851

Kropp AI:11 (1849-1852) page 82 (AID: v107301.b84.s82, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Björka 1851-1853

Kropp AI:11 (1849-1852) page 58 (AID: v107301.b61.s58, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Grafvarehuset 1853

Both:

Kropp AI:12 (1853-1857) page 74 (AID: v107302.b76.s74, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Hyllstorp 2

Kropp AI:13 (1858-1860) page 66 (AID: v107303.b71.s66, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Hyllstorp 2

Kropp AI:14 (1861-1865) page 77 (AID: v107304.b83.s77, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Hyllstorp 2

Kropp AI:14 (1861-1865) page 18 (AID: v107304.b25.s18, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Gravarehuset

Kropp AI:15 (1866-1870) page 91 (AID: v107305.b86.s91, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Gravarehuset

Kropp CI:5 (1861-1879) page 55 (AID: v107318.b58.s55, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Stillborn daughter

Kropp B:3 (1861-1884) page 29 (AID: v107312.b33.s29, NAD: SE/LLA/13216) Kropp -> Helsingborg

Helsingborgs stadsförsamling AI:53 (1866-1869)page 283 (AID: v107148.b291.s283, NAD: SE/LLA/13171) 

Helsingborgs stadsförsamling AI:61 (1869-1874) page 263 (AID: v107156.b206.s263, NAD: SE/LLA/13171) Närlunda

Helsingborgs stadsförsamling B:7 (1860-1871) picture 221 (AID: v107195.b221, NAD: SE/LLA/13171) Närlunda -> Mörarp

Mörarp B:3 (1861-1889) page 27 (AID: v107390.b32.s27, NAD: SE/LLA/13274) Helsingborg -> Mörarp (Hjortshög 3)

Mörarp AI:10 (1866-1870) page 171 (AID: v107383.b153.s171, NAD: SE/LLA/13274) Hjortshög nr 3

Mörarp AI:11 (1871-1875) page 194 (AID: v107384.b170.s194, NAD: SE/LLA/13274) Hjortshög nr 3

Mörarp AI:12 (1876-1881) page 212 (AID: v107385.b167.s212, NAD: SE/LLA/13274) Hjortshög nr 3

Mörarp AI:13 (1881-1885) page 157 (AID: v107386.b133.s157, NAD: SE/LLA/13274) Hjortshög nr 3

Mörarp AI:14 (1885-1894) page 205 (AID: v107387.b176.s205, NAD: SE/LLA/13274) Hjortshög nr 3

P J Hilding - Kropp

Im helping out with the cementary inventory arranged by the Swedish Genealogy Society. Right now Im typing in from the old inventory into the new database. I picked the cementery in Kropp since it takes me five minutes to walk there. Im also taking geotagged pictures and uploading them to billiongraves.com. 

Walking around at that cemetary Im getting more and more interested about the people behind (well, rather under I know) the names on those stones. How was their life and what did they do an ordinary day. How did this place look a hundred years ago? 

Wouldnt it be nice to be able to walk in that cemetary and have something little to tell about every person? I don't really have any relatives of my own in this little area, but if I dont write about them, who will? Its not that I dont have a lot of other things to research, but as importent it is to know my history and where I came from I think it is to know this little spot on earth where I now have my home, love and where I want to stay forever.

I randomly I picked the first stone I came to think of. It is a beautiful stone, shaped like a tree, and you pass it when walking to the entrance to the church.

P J Hilding gravestone - shaped like a tree
Kropp, Skåne, Sweden

It has three names on it:

P J Hilding, born October 5 in 1835, died November 17 in 1915.

Thilda Hilding, born 26 of May in 1840, died February 5 in 1920

(which happens to be today, 92 years ago, that felt a bit weird)

Alma, born September 4 in 1882 and died on August 18 in 1910.

It says P J Hilding was a gardener, and that makes sense when you think of the shape of the stone.

I did a lookup in the houseexaminerolls of 1881 - 1885 from Kropp and I found the family on page 4. Living at Rosendahl which is the castle built in 1615 by Andres Bille not far from here.

Rosendal

The family consists of the gardener and father of the house, Per Isaksson Hilding (born in Strö), his wife Botilla Isaksdotter (born in Kvistofta) and thier seven children, six girls (Ida Maria, Selma, Josefina Emilia, Bernhardina Vilhelmina, Bertha Lovisa, Alma) and one son (Johan Ernst). Next to Pers name it says that he has received a goldmedal from The Royal Patriotic Society. That must have been a big event since the priest wrote it down.

Goldmedal note

Looking at the Swedish Census of 1880 CD this is the family:

Isaksson, Per Hilding - 1835 Father

Isacsdotter, Botilla - 1840 Mother

Ida Maria - 1865 Child

Selma - 1868 Child

Josefina Emilia - 1871 Child

Johan Ernst - 1873 Child

Bernhardina Vilhelmina - 1876 Child

Bertha Lovisa - 1878 Child

Notice that Per is called Isaksson as a surname, not what it says on the stone. His wifes name is Botilla and Thilda as it says on the stone is ofcourse short for Botilla. In the houseexamine rolls he is also known as Per Hilding.

On the CD Swedish Death Index 1901 - 2009 it says Pers place of birth is Strö, Skaraborg but in the census it says Norra Strö, Kristianstad. Looking in the birthbook of both Strö and Norra Strö I find no Per born on October 5 in 1835. Neither in Östra Strö or Stövelstorp. I find one Per born on October 5 in Västra Strö. Could be him.

A child called Per, born i Västra Strö Oct, 5 1835

So, need to follow him backwards. In houseexaminerolls 1861-1865 it says he came to Kropp in 1863, from Härslöv.

I find him in Härslöv, being a gardner at Hildesborg (another beautiful castle, at the time owned by Wong) He came to Härslöv from Bosarp in 1857, age of 22. Going though the houseexamine rolls of Bosarp  (1856 - 1860) without finding Per. I didnt find any moving in/moving out records for Boarp either so instead I had to go back to the person I suspect is him in the birth book looking forward and hope the two lose ends will connect at some point.

The family i Västra Strö, Skåne, Sweden

He leaves Strö for Näs, which acctually is Trollenäs when he is 15 years old, in 1850. He stays at Trollenäs  until 1853 when he moves to Malmö.

Trollenäs

In the moving out record of Trollenäs (found in Gullarp) is says gardener student P J Hilding. That was the last piece needed to solve the puzzle. Per was born in Västra Strö.

# 37, thats Per

So, Per moved out from his parents at age 15 to Trollenäs in 1850. In 1853 he moves to Malmö and he is a gardener student. In 1857 he moves from Bosarp to Härslöv where he works as a gardener at Hildeborg, another beautiful castle and in 1863 he comes to Kropp and the Rosendal castle. On October 19, 1864  he married Botilla Isakdotter from Kvistofta.

Per and Botilla marriage in Kvistofta, 1864

He dies at the age of 80 in 1915. In 1920 Botilla dies only a few months before her 80th birthday.

Alma Hilding, died in 1910, age 22 from tuberculosis.

Im still thinking about how he picked his last name, Hilding. Im also wondering about the J in P J. In the census he is Per Hilding Isaksson and perhaps the J is really an I. And last, Isaksson, to me it looks like his fathers namn is Ivar. This is genealogy. You solve one mystery and you end up with even more questions. Thats the beauty with it, don't you agree?


Sources (house examine rolls (A), birth book (C), moving books (B)):

Västra Strö CI:2 (1806-1861) Bild 42 / sid 67 (AID: v106851.b42.s67, NAD: SE/LLA/13479)

Västra Strö AI:2 (1830-1841) Bild 16 / sid 26 (AID: v106835.b16.s26, NAD: SE/LLA/13479)

Västra Strö AI:3 (1842-1847) Bild 16 / sid 16 (AID: v106836.b16.s16, NAD: SE/LLA/13479)

Västra Strö AI:4 (1848-1852) Bild 17 / sid 19 (AID: v106837.b17.s19, NAD: SE/LLA/13479)

Gullarp AI:11 (1848-1860) Bild 74 / sid 2 (AID: v106442.b74.s2, NAD: SE/LLA/13121)

Gullarp B:1 (1829-1861) Bild 23 (AID: v106443.b23, NAD: SE/LLA/13121)

Härslöv B:6 (1857-1869) Bild 86 (AID: v110531.b86, NAD: SE/LLA/13172)

Härslöv AI:28 (1861-1866) Bild 147 / sid 141 (AID: v110517.b147.s141, NAD: SE/LLA/13172)

Härslöv B:6 (1857-1869) Bild 5 (AID: v110531.b5, NAD: SE/LLA/13172)

Kvistofta CI:4 (1862-1881) Bild 172 / sid 165 (AID: v107368.b172.s165, NAD: SE/LLA/13223)

Kropp B:3 (1861-1884) Bild 12 / sid 8 (AID: v107312.b12.s8, NAD: SE/LLA/13216)

Kropp AI:14 (1861-1865) Bild 15 / sid 7 (AID: v107304.b15.s7, NAD: SE/LLA/13216)

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The House - Part 1 - an introduction

I am sitting in the kitchen this foggy fall morning, watching yellow, orange and
brown leafs almost covering my car.

We bought this house in June last year (2010). We know litte about it
and we keep revieling things about it, sometimes so amazing you wouldnt
even believe it.

We know the house was build sometimes between 1896 - 1898. We have been
looking at the cityarchives for drawings of the house that really should
be there but they dont have it (and doesnt seem to have any drawings of
our neighbours houses either, at least not the older houses. According to
the inventory they should be there but somehow they are missing)

The House in the beginning of 1900

The House today, October 30 2011

The church is from around 1200.

Kropps Kyrka

As someone doing genealogy and family history it is great living next
door to a cementary. Eventough I dont have any connections backwards
to this specific area it really got me interested about this little
place on earth and Im trying to find out as much as possible. So, as
the first advice we always give to someone asking about how to start
with researching thier familily history, start with yourself, Im starting
with my house. And then I will move on and tell you more about the church,
the little shop, the dairy and the house where the priests used to live
and all other things I will find out about.

According the the prievious owners the house was built by a man

called Anders Nilsson. He didnt own the land, it belonged to the

big estate Rosendahl. More information about this man will follow

in a future post.

Anders Nilsson Familygrave

Anyhow, one of the things that really cought my eye when visiting
the house the very first time was a stonemarker in the garden. To
me it looked exactly like a little gravestone. Looking at it closer
it is not a gravestone but a propertymarker common in older days.

Marker

It says N = 9 H-HÖG 1/24 E N. So, what is this marker doing in our
garden and who was E N?

Marker close-up. Not a good idea taking this
picture when its been raining.

I will look into the people that lived in this house. This is where
we made one outoftheordinary discovery. More about that in a future
post.

I am also going to do an inventory at the cemetary, trying to find out
more about the people that are resting there (and uploding pictures to
billiongraves.com, the graveinventory of Släktforskarförbundet and
a graveinventory group at Facebook). When we bought the house,
I (guess that comes from being inte genealogy) started looking through
the death-and buirial book. Here we found a couple of tragical stories
which we could follow up in the newspapers back then. More about that
later on.

So, with this, I guess I better get my nose into the books and records.