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Emma was born to farmer Jacob Jaensson and wife Lotta Andersdotter in Markebo
Axel to hemmansbrukaren (farmer renting)Johan Peter Jonsson and Anna Brita Andersdotter in Perstorp.
Tjällmo is in the mining area of North Östergötland and the Finnish ancestry could very well be very far back with the import of Finnish workforce for the remote, forested areas of mid-Sweden stretching across towards the Norwegian border. This is where a large amount of charcoal was manufactured in the woods for use in the iron foundries. In the 1500-1600s Finns were imported by the factory owners in Finspång, near Tjällmo, to teach Swedes how to make good charcoal, they were assimilated more quickly than the Finns in Western and Northern Sweden, usually given Swedish names. But in a memoir by an 1800s member of parliament from Tjällmo, he describes his Finnish roots in Tjällmo and that these families were considered different as late as the early 1800s. There are still numerous place-names denoting Finnish habitation there. There were also many Finns who were enticed to immigrate to clear land in these forested areas by svedjebruk, ie burning areas of wood and then growing crops, moving the fields relatively often and making new land. This is a specialized form of agriculture that Finns were very proficient at. This immigration started earlier, ca 1300, but was most intensive after 1580. There were also Finns in cities in the county, but that was more uncommon. But your Finnish ancestry is no strange thing - both grandparents from the Finnish populated area of Östergötland!
As you know from previous answers, Finland was a part of Sweden for 700 years. Even we Swedes do not fully understand that it was not a colony or a dominion, but an integral part of the country.
(Reference in Swedish: History of the Finns in Östergötland:
http://www.sydaby.eget.net/mig/finn.html)
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