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Titel: Olof Johansson Djupman military records, parents
Skrivet av: Ingela Martenius skrivet 2010-08-26, 03:43
The Soldier Register has Olof (Johansson) Djupman, born 17 Aug 1817 with a wife Lisa Andersdotter born 1812. Olof joined the Värmland Regiment as no. 909 (a regiment consisted of eight companies with 150 men in each, a total of 1200 men; this means Olof was no. 9 in the seventh company), in 1835. His company (the 7th) was called Gillberg. Olof was stationed in Kila parish, in the military district (rote) of Djupviken (from which location Olof's soldier surname was of course derived).
The archive responsible for the Soldier Register for Värmland is Värmlandsarkiv. They may have more on Olof, but they may also charge a fee. You can contact them at varmlandsarkiv@regionvarmland.se , quoting File No VÄ-00-0909-1835.
Valuable clues may also be had from the War Archive's General Muster Rolls (generalmönsterrulla). General musters weren't held every year though. General muster rolls for Värmland Regiment, from 1819 thru 1884, can be viewed on-line at http://www.arkivdigital.net/, a fee-based site.
Drummer boys were always very young. I've e.g. found an 11 year-old who joined the Norra skånska infanteriregementet as a drummer boy in 1825. The only reason for joining at an early age was that your parents couldn't support you, regardless of which side of the blanket you were born on.
The only reason why someone changed patronymics was that they did in fact acquire a new father, i.e. the mother married another man than the father. The new husband became the step-father and if the children were (well) under 15 they'd ususally (though not always) start using the step-father's name.
If you can find Olof in a Husförhörslängd with his parents, then they are his parents. A Husförhörslängd will usually state quite clearly if someone was a foster child or a step-child. The best way to determine if the vicar was careful about these things is to leaf through the pages and take note of how he's entered information about other families. The mere fact that you can't find Olof's birth record doesn't mean that what is stated in the Husförhörslängd is wrong. There can be several explanations as to why the record is (or appears to be) missing. One is quite simply that the vicar forgot or missed to enter Olof's birth; this happened not at all infrequently. Another explanation might be that the expectant mother e.g. wished to avail herself of the services of a particularly skillful midwife in a neighbouring parish - when her time was near she staged a visit to an aunt/old friend and just happened to give birth in this other parish. The parish where the mother actually gave birth and the parish where she resided both thought that the other parish had registered the birth and so the baby was registered in neither (I've seen this, but the other way round: a wedding was registered in two parishes because of a very confusing situation the bride had created).
If all sources consistently agree - through the years - on date, year, parish, then Olof most probably was born at that time, in that parish and to those parents.