Adolf Fredrik, Barnhuset

[Shirley Lindberg]

My Ancester Pehr Eric Lindberg is listed at Barnhuset. Is this an orphanage?  
He is listed on Genline page 8 Cell - Fangleset in 1855. His wife is listed in Lindbacken page 33  It looks like he is: portMaskter (handwriting is hard to read). Can someone decipher this for me.

[Bo Johansson]

Do you have the Genline GID for these pages?
 
(Meddelandet ändrat av bojoha 2011-06-01 11:55)

[Jan Jutefors]

Shirley,
 
At the block Lindbacken, the note with Wilhelmina Lindberg (mannen PortW[akt]). The man Gate-keeper.
 
P.E. Lindberg at Cell-Fängelset work as gate-keeper. Portvakt in Swedish.
 
Source: Adolf Fredrik AI:62 (1855) page 33 and 8
 
(Meddelandet ändrat av janj 2011-06-01 14:03)

[Shirley Lindberg]

I got an e-mail that said he was a janitor. Do you happen to know why they would be listed separately? I am working on Genline through Ancestry. Unfortunately I don't have the GED number. I have pretty much traced them from 1847 through 1860. I thought from the surrounding pages that it looked like a prison or orphanage. Thanks for responding. I still need to translate some of the other terms.

[Jan Jutefors]

Shirley,
 
Cell-Fängelset was a prison and he worked there as guard, I think he was the man who guarded the maingate.

[Helene Jorsell]

No! Pehr Erik Lindberg was indeed - as suggested to Shirley and in what best can be described as - a kind of janitor. Nothing else. The fact that he worked in a prison, does not mean he guarded any gates or doors. Another word to use to describe his profession could be Concierge or - more easy to understand - a Carekeeper.  
 
When refering to a Gate keeper, we are actually back to medieval England with the guards outside the castles.
 
Shirley! Qu. Barnhuset was just a name of that specific area of Stockholm or block of houses. The word Barnhus does indeed mean orphanage, however, the reason why this block of houses/buildings were kalled Barnhuset goes back to the 1700's when in fact, there was an orphanage there.  
 
Pehr Erik Lindberg and his family in Stockholm in november 1859; http://www2.ssa.stockholm.se/Bildarkiv/Egenproducerat/SE-SSA-0032/mantalsbok/M60 10010071_150dpi.pdf
 
Helene

[Margareta Danielsson]

Shirley  
 
The family lived close to the prison. You can see Läns(county)cellfängelse and Lindbacken in the marked sqare on this map from 1867. It takes time for the picture to be clear, after zooming.  
 
A part of the map:

 
Margareta

[Jan Jutefors]

I don´t buy that explanation. I do not think he was a caretaker or a janitor. He was in the list after the worden and before the other guards, his status was much higher than a janitor.

[Shirley Lindberg]

Thank you so much for the information and maps. I got more than I thought I could ever find. It looks like they may have lived across the street.

[Shirley Lindberg]

I have another question regarding this family. In 1851 Rorstrand PE Lindberg is found with his family. Also there is a Fredricka. Can you tell me what the words are previous to the name. It is page 7 of the Adolf Fredrik Homestead. Sorry, I don't have the GED.

[Maud Svensson]

Fredrika was P E Lindberg's mother:
 
Modren Enkan Fredrika Lindberg 79 = The mother, widow Fredrika Lindberg, born 1779.

[Mats Ahlgren]

The words are Modren, Enkan (mother, widow)