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Titel: SV: Maja Caisa Safgren Birth & Death Certificates
Skrivet av: Staffan Bergh skrivet 2019-07-16, 11:19
Mark, you've lost me ...
How did you get from a (something) Palmström, or (as my esteemed colleague has pointed out) more likely P. Almström (may be Peter, as that is the name the son gets, in addition to grand-pa's), as a father in Uppsala or Danmark parish, to a P. Almström that died in Kristiansand? Are there first-hand sources?
Let me be a wet blanket, and point out that:
Kristiansand is a long way from Uppsala, and in another country that was not very friendly with Sweden in the 18th century (Norway was part of Denmark, the country)
15-year-old fathers were not common -- it was a grievous sin in the 18th century to have sex outside of marriage, and the marriage age was 18 at the time. Also that would have made Maja Kajsa the older, by 8 years, uncommon now, and likewise then ...
Anyone could change their name whenever they wanted, and commonly did when they were in any profession other than farmer (soldiers even got their names changed for them). The only restriction was that you could not use a name from the nobility. And there was no noble families by the names Almström or Palmström at the time (there was actually a family Palmström, that died out before the times we are moving in). Almström is a name formed on a common pattern, from natural phenomena or placenames: Alm (english: elm, or the parish Almunge, close to Uppsala) + ström (eng: stream), and has been "invented" many times ...
Data out of indexes (FamilySearch, etc) often have errors, caused by misreading by non-native readers, because of pure language barriers, but also from cultural barriers, and from unfamiliarity with the history. This also affects americans when it comes to their swedish roots ... ;). Also, most of the indexing has been done from old microfilms of fairly low quality -- we have better quality pictures now.
In conclusion, the Almström that dies in Kristiansand, and the Palmström that fathers a son in Värmland are almost definitely not the same person, and most probably none of them are the father of Johan Peter, b 1777 in Uppsala.
So, regroup, rethink, start over: why are you looking for these people? How did you reach Johan Peter? Do you have any sources from his later life?