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Introduction
The purpose of the material in this section of the Web site (this page and the pages provided by the links on the left side of this page) is to provide you with information about Håll Per Persson & Rombo Anna Andersdotter and their family. Håll Per & Rombo Anna were selected for the focus here because they are the parents and grandparents of a group of individuals that emigrated to Isanti County, Minnesota, and other parts of the United States. Those that emigrated to Minnesota changed their names to Halden, Lavander, and Peterson. You can click on the appropriate text in the column on the left to link to the information about those individuals. For example if you click on "Håll Per Persson & Rombo Anna Andersdotter" you will go to the page that tells about them and lists their children. If you click on "1. Håll Per Persson & Stikå Anna Persdotter" you will go to the page the tells about Håll Per & Rombo Anna's first child (also named Håll Per Persson) his wife (Stikå Karin Persdotter), and their children. If you click on "2. Håll Erick Persson & Stikå Karin Persdotter" you will link to the page that tell about Håll Erick (Håll Per & Rombo Anna's second child) and his family. Etc. Why is there the word Håll in front of many of the names of our ancestors, e.g. Håll Per Persson? Håll is the name of a farm, in Swedish it is a gårdsnamn. Many of our ancestors were born on or lived on the Håll farm. For example, let's take the names of Håll Per Persson and Rumbo Anna Andersdotter. Håll Per married Rumbo Anna. This would be translated as: Per Persson from the Håll farm married Anna Andersdotter from the Rumbo farm. The following article describes the origin and use of the farm names. The "Farm Names of Dalarna" By Elisabeth Thorsell In the province of Dalarna (Dalecarlia) people used and still use gårdsnamn, which means farm names. These names are always put first in a person's name. They show that this person belonged to the "Der" farm or the "Blom" farm, and they were always put before the person's Christian name, and they were talked about as Der Eric or Blom Anna. If Blom Anna married Der Eric and moved to the Der farm, she was usually known as Der Anna after the marriage. But if Der Eric moved to her home, he was probably known as Blom Eric after the marriage. The reason for this is not clear, but probably has to do with the fact that very few first names were used, when a baby's name was to be chosen. In the old days people almost always used a name, that already was used by an older relative, and that gave the parents less than 20 names for boys and 20 names for girls to chose from. As a result you could have several Anders Erssons or Anna Andersdotter in a village. The villages, especially around lake Siljan, can be very big with some 50 different farms in the same village. So to help to sort out which Anders Ersson or Margareta Olsdotter you were talking about, a farm name was added to this person, like Orr Anders Ersson or Stolts Margareta Olsdotter. Then you knew that you were talking about Anders from Orrgården or Margareta from Stoltsgården in that village. We hope this whets your curiosity about our ancestors and our relationships to one another. For more details you can go to the RootsWeb Web site maintained by Charles Henrikson. A link to that Web site is included on the Contacts & Links page of this Web site. It can be difficult to get started at the RootsWeb Web site because it is policy for privacy and security reason to not include the first name, birth date, birth place, marriage date, or marriage place for any living person. Please contact Chuck Henrikson, Don Peterson, or another family member if you need help getting started. This page was last revised 11/13/2003 |
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