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Carl Peter Hoog’s Swedish Ancestry

Tölö Sweden

 

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Carl Peter Hoog (b 1953)

 

Almost all of the Swedish relatives of Carl Peter Höög (1953) are from the county of Halland, specifically the parish of Tölö. Tölö is located on the west coast of Sweden with a view of Kungsbacka.

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Maps Showing Location of Tölö

Red Star is Tolo

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Many of the male ancestors were seaman in the mercantile marine or in the Swedish equivalent= of the Coast Guard. There were several sea captains, including Anders Höög (b 1827). Sometimes these sea captains or other seafarers retired and became tenant farmers (abö). Often they were tenant farmers from the start.

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In Hallands Lan, b= eing a tenant farmer meant being able to farm 5 – 6 acres of arable land a= nd a number of acres of forest land. These tenancies lasted over many generation= s. Höögs and the other relatives farmed plots in the districts known= as Skårby N o 4 and Hvarla N o 9 for over 400 years which was the extent= of the records.

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The Research

Almost all research was done from church records in Tölö parish through photocopies on the GENLINE. Exceptions were census searches of the 1890 and 1900 censuses, actually compilation of the church records. Other exceptions were the Halla= nds marriage database – especially important when the church registers be= came hard to read, DISBYT database in Sweden where these records have now been submitted, SVAR which has important archives of information, the church rec= ords at the Göteborg Cathedral (Göteborg Gustavi Domkyrko) for informa= tion on the birth of Anna Jansson (b 1882) and the marriage of Gustaf Julius and Anna and the records of the Landarchives in Uppsala. These records led right back to Tölö where the two families were neighbors.

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Thank you to the wonderful assistance of Sten-Stu= re Tersmeden of  wwwgenealogi.se, the old family  pictures from Gunilla Axelsson and the offer of assistance from Glenn Gustafsson. At the last min= ute I received input from the Tolo parish from Marie-Louise Gustafsson which provided a last piece of missing information. They all made the completion = of this study possible.

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Names

A word about the traditional naming schemes of Hallands. Sons of Peter had the last name of Petersson (two ‘s’). Daughter of Peter had the name Petersdotte= r, Petersdoter, Petersdr. There were always occasional exceptions to this. In = the 18th century this began to change and families sometimes adopted family names, often based on a place or on nature. Höög is “high” or “hill” in Sweden, there are also a numb= er of place with Höög or Hög in the name. The first to adopt the Höög name seems to be Nils Hög, born Nils Hansson (b. 1720).=  One record indicated that his wife = was from Hogslanda district. He sometimes used the name Höög, which w= as in common use by the following generation. To make reading the church recor= ds of Tölö more difficult was the handwriting which still used eleme= nts of Gothic script made reading g the church records of Tölö even m= ore difficult. This persisted even into the end of the 19th century. This results in what looks like an “fs” in place of the double = s. Oldest sons often had variations of the father’s first name, oldest daughters variations of the mother’s first name.

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Church Records

This is what a chu= rch record looks like

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Birth record of  Christina Petronella – 1838, Tölö

Contains baby̵= 7;s name, birthdate, Parents names, sometimes where they were from and names of godparents.

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Death record 1852 Tölö

Contains, name, birthdate and cause of death

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Household survey 1= 777 Tölö

Kind of census of families as well as how they were graded on religious tests. Family members grouped by district, may also have birthdates, death dates, when a person l= eft the parish.

Marriage record 17= 46 Tölö

Contains marriage date, couple’s names, where they were from, sometimes the work they d= id and names of witnesses

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Birth record 1687 Tölö – first year they were kept

Gothic script dama= ge from time.

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Setting the Stage

We meet up with the people of Tölö, at about t= he time Halland became part of Sweden in 1685. The earliest records are the approximate birthdates of Johan Pehrs= on  and Tora Andersdotter/  in the year 1665. In 1658, the Peace Treaty of Roskilde had given Sweden Skane, Hallands and Bohus län.  In some parts of Sweden there was an epidemic = of witch hunts. At this time Sweden was a war with Denmark= again as Sweden tried to regian the lost provinces including Halland. The people must have = know the fear of impending violence and been confisued by the change of governme= nt.

This was a period = of the last years of the Black Plague in Swede= n which had taken as much as ½ of the population of Sweden. The economic depressi= on was influencing all of the affairs of state and increased the poverty of the ar= ea.

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Hallands Lan, Sweden

The unrest in Scandinavia between Sweden and Denmark ended with the marriage of King Carl XI and Ulrica Eleonora, the sister of = the Danish king, at Skottorps castle in Hallands south of Tölö.

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H= allands <= st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">Castle

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This area of Halla= nds has been the site of settlements for thousands of years. Havarla which is a district of Tölö parish, has a number of Bronze Age sites. Kungsbacka, across the river from Tölö has numerous Neolithic and Bronze Age sites as well as Viking memorials. It has been a trading center, although since its founding, Göteborg took over as the center of tradi= ng in Western Sweden, Tölö itself has the feeling of a medieval feud= al village although the feudal system never developed in Sweden the way it did in the rest of Europe. Kungsbacka is larger and probably provided = the services not available in Tölö.

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View in Kungsbacka

During Queen Kristina's time much of the crown estates, and the income from them, had be= en given away to various officials and noblemen. The King had discovered this decrease in the internal revenue during the war with Denmark, when much money was = needed for the army, and now started to reduce these gifts, to strengthen the econ= omy of the country.[3] A reorganization of the armed forces was instituted, where soldiers were paid= by a number of local farmers like our Tölö farmers.

Like most towns in Halland, Kungsbacka dates from t= he 13th century. This period saw the growth and increasing prosperity of the N= orth German Hanseatic towns, and their expanding commerce and trade gave rise to= new trading centers along the coastline of southern Sweden.

Twelve years before Augusta Maria Andersson (b 1856= ), the mother of Anna Josefina Jansson, was born in Kungsbacka the town burned to = the ground. Only two houses remain from before the fire and the town was rebuil= t at the end of the 19th century

In the meantime, it seems that the people of the to= wn of Tölö kep= t on with daily life, living with the same neighbors for the most part, marrying, having babies and dying. They farmed, kept house, wove cloth, and performed= the acts of survival of human race. Hallands was a poor province until the midd= le of the Industrial Revolution. It is obvious from the discrepancies in self reported birth years and birth dates, that the calendar was not very import= ant in Tolo

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Social Structure

Their houses were = not spectacular. Just small houses on farm land or in small town settings. Many families had a maid or two or a farmhand living with the family. The whole family would work the land.

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The lives of the people revolved around the church. The new Church Law proclaimed among other things that church records should be kept in every parish. The church kept = all the records of births, deaths, marriages, households and comings and goings. For centuries, the Church of Sweden was the official and only church in Sweden. While these records can be difficult to read they provide much insight into= the lives of the people. It was not until 1858 during the adulthood of Anders H= öög that the people started to have more freedom of religion

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Church was important= in their lives

As of 1734 a new version of the Swedish Common Law decla= red that a woman was only capable after becoming a widow. In the Tölö church, the household records are usually listed in the following order, grandfather living with family, father, mother, sons, daughters, widowed mother, servants. In 1858, it was decided that an unmarried woman could be declared legally capable by a court at age 25. In 1845, sons and daughters inherited equally, previously sons had inherited twice as much as daughters= . In 1861, it was decided that unmarried women were legally capable at age 25. T= hen in 1920, women were declared legally capable and in 1921, women got the rig= ht to vote. Men had gotten the right to vote in 1909.

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S= weden still fought in various wars, all fought on foreign soil. There was war aga= in Napoleon in Pomerania, as well as a war against Napoleon and Denmark and a war against Russia in Finland. I did not find milit= ary records to show if any of the people of Tölö had fought in these wars.

In Halland  living conditions improved and the population increased. In the 19th century the size of the population had reached such proportions that people started to emigrate. There were famine= s in the middle of the 19th century that increased emigration. At fir= st they emigrated to Denmark and Bornholm and later to North America.= In the 20th century the Industrial Revolution came along and the prosperity of Halland has increased since then.

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In the late 19th century people were leaving the farms. Gustaf went to Uppsala in 1911. Anna Josefina was born= in Kvistbro, Narke, Sweden, but her birth was registered at her mother’s home parish in Göteborg.  They were married in Göteborg= in 1919. They had 2 children, Margareta who died in Linkoping in 2006 and Carl Gustav. Carl Gustav was Peter Carl’s father, and he and his Irish born wife, Eileen Graham Montgomery, emigrated to America in 1951. He was a mechanical engineer there. They first lived in Ohio and then he was offered a job with Hyster in <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Oregon. Carl Pet= er and his sister, Deborah were born in Portland Oregon, US.


Tölö Today

 

In 1977 Carl was traveling on a train with his aunt Margareta Hö&= ouml;g and she pointed out the window to a white steeple near Kungsbacka and said = that was where her parents, Gustaf Julius Höög and Anna Josefina Janss= on were buried. This is the view he saw. It was Tölö.

 

 

Tölö from a distance

 

 

 

This is the Tölö church today

 

Carl hopes to visit Tölö in the near future.

 

Family Pictures=

C= arl Gustav Höög Carl Pete's father <= span style=3D'mso-no-proof:yes'>1<= o:p>

 

Gustaf Julius Höög Carl's Grandfather 1<= o:p>

 

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Hannah Höög on her marriage

 

 

 

 

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Lyd= ia Sofia Höög sister of Gustaf Julius 1

 

 

 

Thalenius Anton Apelgren ( b.1841)  = 1

 

Carl Peter's GGG uncle

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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[1] Mapq= uest

[2] Goog= le earth

[3] http://www.genealogi.se

[4] Pict= ures from archives of Halland museum

[5] Pict= ures from archives of Halland museum

[6] Pict= ures from archives of Halland museum

[7] Pict= ures from archives of Halland museum