Titel: Can anyone read this?
Skrivet av: Mark Hoenig skrivet 2008-09-23, 09:03
I think I can make out that Johan Ekelund was of the Major's Company.
The Circa '26' must be 96, and the word after it looks like dod so it may also refer to Johan.
I have tried to look up Johan in the Födelsbök for Bäckaby but I can't make much of it. The witnesses are a lot easier to identify than the parents -- it seems to me that the mother is often not mentioned. I guess they only used the liturgical calendar then. There is an entry for a Johan on what looks like it was on a lördag, but I can't think of any Saturday on the liturgical calendar other than Holy Saturday, Påskafton ... unless it was called something else. It occurs before the 13th Sunday after Epiphany, and Johan was born in April. But I can't make heads or tails of it. The word after P: which seems to be the abbrevation for Pater seems to be used elsewhere in the same document in the same place. It is vaguely comforting to know that someone in the world in the last 300 years had handwriting less legible than mine.