Swedish Research - ideas ???

[stannarp]

Hi all,

Most of my research is UK and Australia based, which is easy enough as the naming conventions, etc are those that I'm accustomed to working with.  However, I have a branch of my tree originating in Sweden, the surname HERMANSON or HERMANSSON when they emigrated to South Africa.

I've amazingly found (still not sure how, but the dates of birth on the children match the research my family has already done, so I'm sure they are the correct family), on the Swedish records recently uploaded onto the IGI site:

Christofer Johanssson HERMAN, married to Catharina Johana BERLIN 11 Oct 1863, these are the parents of my gg-grandfather, Walfrid Theodor Johansson HERMAN, b 1878, Stockholm, d 1955, Cape Town South Africa.  At some point his surname became HERMANSON, and my grandmother was Ethel Dorothy HERMANSON b 1907, Cape Town.

Previously I'd had Christofer Johansson HERMAN as HERMANSSON, but according to IGI he was HERMAN.

Now this is where I'm puzzled - research done by a relative (now deceased) in the 1970's and 1980's had the family name in Sweden as HERMANSSON (hence the above error), and had Christofer Johansson HERMAN's father as a Herman Gren HERMANSSON (wife Johana).  From what I know of Swedish surnames, at least historically, the father's first name becomes a component of the surname, with a 'son' or 'dotter' appended to it.  So...is my Christoferr Johansson HERMAN the son of a Johan, or a HERMAN (or a Johan HERMANSSON, or Herman JOHANSSON ).

I've not been able to find a birth for Christofer Johnsson HERMAN anywhere yet...

If anyone has more experiencing with unravelling Swedish intricacies, please help, I'm well and truly confused!

Regards,

Patricia

ps. thanks for moving it, getting late in South Africa, and I'm on my way to sleep, so fairly brain dead in terms of figuring out where to post this!

[jamcat95]

Hi stannarp,
I don't know how much you know already:

Here is the family in 1880:

Hermanson, Kristoffer Herman - b.1836 - Father
(Surname missing), Johanna Kristina - b.1838 - Mother
Karl Axel - b.1868 - Child
Valfrid Teodor - b.1878 - Child
Johanna Vilhelmina - 1864 - Child
Anna Elisabet - b.1865 - Child
Maria Matilda - b.1870 - Child
Valborg Augusta   - b.1874 - Child


Ian

[jamcat95]

1890
Hermansson, Kristoffer - b.1836 - Father
(Missing Surname), Johanna Katarina - b.1838 - Mother
Johanna Vilhelmina - b.1864    - Child
Anna Elisabet - b.1865 - Child
Valborg Augusta - b.1874 - Child
Valfrid Teodor - b.1878 - Child
Elin Viktoria - b.1882 - Child
Hermansson, Karl Axel - b.1868 - Single


Ian

[jamcat95]

1900
Hermanson, Kristoffer - b.1836 - Father
(Surname missing), Johanna Katarina - b.1838 - Mother
Johanna Vilhelmina - b.1864 - Child
Hermanson, Karl Viktor - b.1894 - Child


Ian