Titel: SV: Help!
Skrivet av: Karl Göran Eriksson skrivet 2021-03-18, 08:36
The related volume is Revsund AI:1,which also includes the neighbouring parish of Bodsjö. Regarding the names of parishes you find here, it does not always only mean that parish itself. Here Ragunda often means the pastorate which in those days consisted of five parishes (besides Ragunda it was also Fors, Håsjö, Hällesjö and Stugun). There is no place Byn in Ragunda, but you can find it in two of the other parishes and with variant spelling in a third. In this case it concernes Byn in Hällesjö, where Nils's parents Kjel Olofsson and Elin Nilsdotter lived. Nils and Karin at Ubyn had 15 children – very rare in those days. The eldest Olof (Öberg), deserted to Norway 1737.