Saktmodig (Surname)

[Gwen Stuler]

Is anyone familiar with this surname?  Is it a true surname or a designation for a trade/occupation?  In researching Stina Lisa Svensdotter and her siblings, the Household Exams (Ålem AI:9 image 138, page 261) and birth record for Stina Lisa (Ålem C:3 image 217, page 423)  state that this is the surname for her father.  
 
Thank you.

[Maud Svensson]

Saktmodig (English: meek) is a soldier's name.
 
Links:
 
http://soldat.dis.se/soldater.php?lng=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_allotment_system

[John Bentley]

Soldier or boatsman (rotebåtsman).  Some areas including parishes in Halland provided boatsman to the navy, and in much of the wikipedia article referenced you can see that a parallel system to that for soldiers was used.  So Modig, Frimodig and Saktmodig are boatsmans names in certain Halland parishes.  If trying to trace a soldier/boatsman, look at all records since Sven Nilsson becoming Sven Modig when indentured may at times get the fuller name of Sven Nilsson Modig.  Whether the name was kept or reverted on retirement is another variable.

[Maud Svensson]

Stina Lisa's father was båtsman (boatsman) Sven Saktmodig, according to her birth record.  
 
The Central Soldiers Register:
Document number: SB-00-0075-1808
Saktmodig, Sven  [Jonsson]
  Born:    1785
  Regiment:    Smålands båtsmanskompani
  Company:    SMÅLANDS BÅTSMANSKOMPANI
  Parish:    Ålem
  File:    Brotorp
 
 
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[John Bentley]

Just shows you can actually learn things yourself when posting on here to help others.  In my case that The Central Soldiers Register http://soldat.dis.se/soldater.php has boatsman ! I typed in the random (and when first encountered, unbelievable) name Papegoja and saw 10 with that name. (Why unbelievable ?  After all the Perssons etc, I had followed, someone called Parrot ?!)

[Elisabeth Thorsell]

John, Papegoja was also an extinct noble family from Västergötland. The most well-known member was Johan Papegoja, who was the lieutenant of Johan Printz, governor of New Sweden in Delaware in the 1650s.

[Chris Bingefors]

My partner is very proud of the fact that his great (x4) grandfather was Måns Wellington, soldier.

[Gwen Stuler]

Maud:  Thank you for your response.  Your information was invaluable and access to the Central Soldiers Registry will prove to be invaluable for some other relatives I am researching.  Without big boosts from the people at Anbytarforum I would be hitting a lot of brick walls.