Halla,Sodermanland

[Nancy Jaderen]

According to my cousin in Sweden my gfather was born in Halla.Is this anywhere near Södertålje,which is where my mother was born?
  Nancy Jaderen

[Jöran Johansson]

Halla is a parish in Södermanland county and province about 70 kilometers SW of Södertälje or 20 km NW of Nyköping. There is also a Halla parish at Gotland, the big island in the baltic Sea.
 
Close to (SE of) Södertälje is a big estate Hall, now most known as a prison.