Titel: Why the extra first name?
Skrivet av: Ingrid Wikberg skrivet 2005-06-05, 12:26
I'm sure that Gullik-Lars means son of Gullik or from a farm called Gullik -farm named after it's owner.( it could be an owner long ago.) It isn't unusual to use this form marking out from which family or the farm a person was related of. More common in old days -but also in use today. And not only in Dalarna -but in Dalarna it became more used and most known.And still are.
In my homevillage in Jämtland there are a lot of farms with names as Klockars ; the owner was a parish clerk (klockare) very long ago -but the todays owner is a farmer; and an other farm is called Olsjuls means Olof Sjulson's farm and that is one of the oldest family-farms in Jämtland and the old farm-name still exist. ( over 600 years old) But the farmowner or his familymembers (x) of today are still called Olsjuls-x or x in Olsjuls even if the farmowner of today is not a relative of Olof Sjulson ( or Olof Sigurdsson)!