Titel: Swedish army rolls
Skrivet av: Albert Sandberg skrivet 2011-02-09, 05:54
Is there a list of soldiers from the period of 1808 - 1815? At some point, my ancestor, Johan Israelsson, 1790-1828, from Overboda, Vasterbottens changed his last name to Sparrman. As it is a soldier's name, I assume he would have entered the Swedish army when he was around 18 years old and was required to change his last name if there were alot of Israelssons in the army. I live in Canada and cannot access the records there. I am hoping there is a record of the soldier's name changes in the Swedish army. His grandchildren would have the name of Sandberg which I haven't figured out how that came about either. It makes tracing my family history difficult not knowing if I'm on the right track or not with all the name changes. Thank you.