Styfver or Styvfar

[Nancy Jaderen]

I have been trying to find the parents of Pehr or Petter Styfver,b,1670 in Juskebo,Haraker,
Vastmanland. He married Karin Andersdotter in 1693.The HFL for that period wasn't any help as
there were no birthdates or places listed. The spelling of the name is from the FHL and gave the names Johan Persson and Ingri Andersdotter as parents. I thought perhaps because it was an unfamiliar name it was misspelled and found that styvfar meant stepfather.Then I searched Pehr Johansson and found Johan Hansson and Ingeborg Larsdotter as parents.Can anyone help me clear up my confusion?
   Thank You
    Nancy Jaderen

[Carl Szabad (Carl)]

Nancy! Styfver sounds like a soldier name. The meaning of the name is a 17th century form of a small coin, and is today spelled styver. Probably Per (Petter) sometime was a soldier.

[Joel Vogler]

Carl is quite right: there was a coin called styfver.
 
But styfver could also mean someone who was styfv (in modern spelling styv), which can be translated stiff or maybe tight.
 
In any case, a typical soldier's name!

[Lennart Haglund]

I would rather suggest able, clever or skilled -  
that is 'duktig' in Swedish!
L Haglund, Varberg

[Nancy Jaderen]

Thank you everyone. Would it be safe to assume he would have been in the Vastmanland Regiment? I  
wouldn't have any idea which company he would have been in.Would I be able to get that information from the Generalmönsterullor? If so, I could probably order the films from the FHL.
  Nancy