{"id":33,"date":"2013-10-16T06:20:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/?p=33"},"modified":"2013-10-23T21:32:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T04:32:21","slug":"33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/2013\/10\/16\/33\/","title":{"rendered":"Klas Petter Almqvist’s Will"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn Clarence Almquist’s file I found the following Will of Klas (Claes) Petter Almqvist, my great great grandfather. I don’t have a scanner that could take the full length so I scanned it twice. What I have is a photocopy, and is cut off at the bottom. I’m not sure if this is an entire will, as it appears to be just dividing up the land.<\/p>\n

Here are the two pdfs:
\nClaes Petter Almqvist Will page 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Claes Petter Almqvist Will page 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Eva, the very kind wife of my 3 cousin , once removed, Peter, has kindly translated it for us:<\/p>\n

“In 1926, 2 October we the undersigned estate executors made clear the<\/em><\/p>\n

Inheritance of the immovable property after deceased freeholder Claes Petter Almqvist in Rampek\u00e4rr of Daretorp parish , who died here September 20, 1921 and left as right heirs , the widow Johanna Sofia Almqvist and her five children born with him, namely<\/em><\/p>\n

1 \/ son Johan Almqvist Laurentius born in 1874 living at home<\/em><\/p>\n

2 \/ daughter Augusta Frederica born in 1877 , married to John Henriksson , living in America<\/em><\/p>\n

3 \/ son Gustaf Almqvist Clemenz , born in 1879 , America<\/em><\/p>\n

4 \/ son Claes Teodor Almqvist , born in 1880 , America<\/em><\/p>\n

4 \/ daughter Ada Albertina Almqvist born in 1887 married to Mr. Gustavus Karlbom \u00d6verberget.<\/em><\/p>\n

The estate inventory of December 27, 1921 submitted ‘ , showing among other 1\/16 mtl Rampek\u00e4rr , after which the ordinance was undertaken in order as follows<\/em><\/p>\n

_________________________________________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

The property 1\/16 mtl Rampek\u00e4rr splits so that<\/em><\/p>\n

widow Johanna Almqvist \u00a0gets \u00a01\/32<\/em><\/p>\n

son Johan 1\/160<\/em><\/p>\n

daughter Augusta Fredrika 1\/160<\/em><\/p>\n

son Gustav Clementz 1\/160<\/em><\/p>\n

Claes Theodore 1\/160<\/em><\/p>\n

Ada Karlbom 1\/160<\/em><\/p>\n

Total mantal 1\/16<\/em><\/p>\n

Thus shifted in year and day as above<\/em><\/p>\n

illegible name \u00a0 illegible name\u00a0the estate executors<\/em><\/p>\n

With the above succession we declare ourselves to all parts happy and hereby confirm with our signatures.<\/em><\/p>\n

As above<\/em><\/p>\n

Johanna Almqvist \u00a0Augusta Almqvist<\/em><\/p>\n

Johan Almqvist,Teodor Almqvist,\u00a0Ada Karlbom, Clementz Almqvist,\u00a0\u00a0GA Karlbom”<\/em><\/p>\n

Eva let me know the mtl. stands for mantal, an old Swedish measurement of the taxable value of land. It refers to the size of a farm that can feed a family, originating in the 1500’s. The actual acreage varies according to the time period, what the farm produced, and area of Sweden.\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a> has some information but no real equivalents in actual size. Apparently, the size of a full mantal could be between 0 and 247 acres, and 1\/6th of a mantal was what a common family could live upon and support\/feed themselves. So when Claes Petter Almqvist died, he was passing on something between 0 and 148 acres.<\/p>\n

You can see the general area of Rampek\u00e4rr<\/em>\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a> (thanks to Eva again!).<\/p>\n

From what I’ve heard from family I believe someone did sell the land by the 1950’s, but I’m not sure when. Perhaps I’ll find out as I go through more files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}