Wallhjon(sp?)

[Lindsay Flint]

Can anyone tell me what this word means before someones name.  I am specifically looking at 906.7.11100 near the bottom of the page before the name of Maria Isacsdotter 16 Mar 1817?

[L Andersson]

Hallo Lindsey. Wallhjon means a (often) a child who is looking after the animals during the day. They might go in the woods finding food. Mostley goats or sheeps but also cows.

[Olle Elm]

While Shepards Watched Their Flocks By Night; Probably you know the sentence. A vallhjon was a person who tended the animals. Valla is the verb meaning tend, watch. A hjon means a servant. Vallhjon = tending servant.
A person who worked as a vallhjon was probably poor.  
Kindly,
Olle Elm
written before I saw what was written abow

[Lindsay Flint]

Thank you so much.  I am also trying to find Maria before this household examination (906.7.11100).  Are there any clues that you can see?