Titel: Marriage customs
Skrivet av: Jay Hagfeldt skrivet 2016-10-27, 19:19
Hi all,
I recently visited cousins in Östmark, Värmland and had a wonderful visit. Our cousins took us to the farm where my great grandfather was born and later to the church he attended. They also helped us understand much of Swedish customs and life.
When we returned home I was so inspired, that I revisited the research I had done a few decades ago, armed with a better understanding. It has opened up new questions and avenues of thought I hadn't considered before.
One of the questions I have is regarding a marriage of my ggg grandfather to a woman who was 46 years older than he. At first I thought it was a mistake in the records, but now I think it is correct.
My ggg grandfather was Per Jonsson, born in 1746. He later became a soldier in Gräsmark, and took the name of Högfeldt. My original thought was that maybe when he became a soldier, he had to marry the previous soldier's widow when he moved onto the soldatorp. But I found he married this woman several years before he became a soldier.
The woman's name was Lisa Pålsdatter born in 1700. The were married in 1765 when he was 19 and she was about 65. What circumstances would bring about such a marriage?
This has me stumped.
When Lisa passed away in 1782, Per remarried, and my ancestral line comes thru the second marriage.