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Swedish language / Household Records Questions
« skrivet: 2014-11-18, 17:55 »
In reading through Household records, I have several questions about some of the abbreviations and words, and what they mean exactly.
1. I can't decipher if it is “Tiuhus” or “Tillhus”, what is it? a building? an occupation? something else?
2. What and where are “socknen” doing? Are they people who are not attached to a certain farm? Would they be working as Day Laborers?
3. Is a “backstuga” part of a farm? Do its occupants work for the farm? Do they pay rent?
4. In the remarks column is the annotation “absv 1859 9/10”. I have interpreted this to mean “absoved; 9 October 1859” What is the significance of this note. I thought that confession was done at regular times. Could this be a special confession? The person absolved was an oakata who had given birth to her second child 6 weeks earlier, her father had died one week earlier, and I think that she may have felt like she was in a deep pit, with no way out.
1. I can't decipher if it is “Tiuhus” or “Tillhus”, what is it? a building? an occupation? something else?
2. What and where are “socknen” doing? Are they people who are not attached to a certain farm? Would they be working as Day Laborers?
3. Is a “backstuga” part of a farm? Do its occupants work for the farm? Do they pay rent?
4. In the remarks column is the annotation “absv 1859 9/10”. I have interpreted this to mean “absoved; 9 October 1859” What is the significance of this note. I thought that confession was done at regular times. Could this be a special confession? The person absolved was an oakata who had given birth to her second child 6 weeks earlier, her father had died one week earlier, and I think that she may have felt like she was in a deep pit, with no way out.
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