Beyond Parish Registers:A Case Study: Difference between revisions

Jôns Torson and wife (1 1&nbsp; _ _ _) appear in the extant 1670, 1671, 1672, and 1675 lists - still residing at Henckelstorp.&nbsp; In 1672, a possible brother of&nbsp;Jôns and Asmund appears i.e.&nbsp;a Måns Thorson and wife, also&nbsp;listed at Henckelstorp.&nbsp; They did not&nbsp;appear before that, and they never appear after.&nbsp; That shows again why <u>'''''it is so very important''''' once you have begun a&nbsp;tax list search, to search every extant year, and a&nbsp;wide time frame.</u>  

The next available list was 1680 where we started the search in the tax lists. (See Step _____)&nbsp;&nbsp;Jôns Torson and Asmund Torson are both listed as single taxables i.e. no wives&nbsp;being taxed.&nbsp; Perhaps that is the year&nbsp;Jôns first wife died, and Asmund had not yet married.&nbsp; We can't say for sure, as the parish registers don't exist, but, the supposition has some merit.  

Remember, we began the study by trying to find the birth place of Elena Asmundsdotter.&nbsp; She had the direct ancestor in&nbsp;Barsebäck parish.&nbsp; Elena also died there - but she wasn't born there.&nbsp;&nbsp;The clue found in her death record in&nbsp;Barsebäck parish, plus information found in the church registers of Västra Karaby parish, plus the tax list&nbsp;information has given a good outline of her ancestry to this point.&nbsp; However, we wanted to find more to now fill in the outline.  

The catechism records were those next searched.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are found in the Family History Library Catalog under the name of the parish - Church Records&nbsp; {pull in link}

A study of the record for&nbsp;Västra Karaby parish shows, at least here,&nbsp;the format was to list the&nbsp;heads of household and the names&nbsp;where a confirmation age child (children) resided, whether that was their own child (children), or the farmhands and farmgirls working for them, It is possible the head of the house was responsible for seeing that these young people knew their Lutheran catechism.

For&nbsp;Västra Karaby parish the lists useful for our searches were those of&nbsp;1696 (no date), 13 Jun 1699 and 4 Jul 1701.&nbsp; Each list was completley searched.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the names of the farms and villages were not listed, so we&nbsp;searched for the first and patronymic names we knew.&nbsp;&nbsp;As was hoped, the information found did allow us to&nbsp;fill in more of the family members!:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wife '''''Nilla Thorsdtr&nbsp;'''''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;dau Karna Jönsdtr&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 parts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "  

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dau Lisebeet&nbsp;Jönsdtr&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 parts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "  

Jôns Thorson&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;son Anders&nbsp;Jônsson&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 parts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "

wife Järtrud Andersdtr&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dau Anna Jönsdtr&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 parts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "

Asmun Torson&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dau Boeld Asmunsdtr&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2 parts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "&nbsp; (possibly a younger child who hadn't

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''maiden name)'''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kierstiene)

1699&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Asmun Torson&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (note that this year, the record keeper decided '''not to list '''the names of the wives, only the head

 

Jôns Torson&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; son Anners&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dau Anna