What is a translation for the words: piga and anka?

[Carol Adams]

On my grandparents marriage and death reports, the words piga and anka describe the women.  What do they mean.  Thank you, Carol Isaacson Adams

[Bo Berndtsson]

Piga is an unmarried adult woman.
Änka (with two dots on ä) is a widow, not to be confused with anka (without the dots), which is a duck.

[Anna Berg]

Piga was a kind of occupation: the young or older unmarried woman worked for example on a farm or in a household. So the word is related to the english  maid. Many young girls worked as piga before they met their husband to be. After marriage they turned to housewife and mother.

[Elisabeth Thorsell]

It is difficult to translate piga to the right English word, when you are not sure of the proper situation of the word.  
 
In a marriage record a piga is usually a unmarried woman, and it does not really show if she was still living at home or out working for someone. If the word is tjänstepiga then you know she is in service someplace. This probably also varies in different areas of the country.

[Eleanor Olin]

The English word, maid, is a shortened form of maiden and has two definitions, an unmarried woman or a servant. Although maiden is somewhat archaic in modern American English, it does not have the servant connotation and conveys the meaning of a younger unmarried woman living in an earlier time. An example would be to use maiden for piga in baptismal witness translations unless, as Elisabeth mentioned, the situation required the use of a servant maid.