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Author: bobcarswelltoo
Surnames: Degerlund
Classification: queries
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Thanks for your email. I cannot find the name BERG anywhere in my documents but the name
Eva Wilhelmina Degerlund born in Bromarv(Bromarf) December 22, 1855 appears. She was the
daughter of Hedvig Gustava Forsman (1809-1868) and Eric Johan Degerlund (1806-1870). She
only lived to be nineteen and died in Tenola in 1874. She was the older sister to my great
grandfather Gustaf Severin Degerlund who left home, as the story goes, at the age of 8
because he did not like doing the farm chores. He went to sea as a cabin boy and spent the
next 20 years travelling and learning to be a ship's carpenter. He landed in London,
took a land job and never looked back. I like to refer to him as a Swede by race, a Finn
by location, a Russian by occupation and a Brit by choice. The records for Finland
Lutherans are probably the best in the world and will tell you most everything going back
to the 1600s. Each church also recorded where an individual moved to when he or she left
the local communi!
ty. If you need details of the Berg side of the family, you need to find birth, marriage
and death certificates for each generation. While it will cost you a few bucks it will
save you a lot of grief because each document details certain pieces of useful
information. I also suspect that if you cannot read the documents you can easily find
someone who can translate for you on the Internet. 8% of the Finn population is Swedish.
They settled along the coast throughout the Aland Islands long before the settlement of
the borders. From books I have read the movement occurred at the recomendation of the King
of Sweden in the 1400 or 1500s so they have beent here for a long time, originally in
Ovanmalm, Norr Degergard, from which their names originated when they moved to Bromarv as
in "Caoming from the land of Deger or DEGERLUND." That all occurred in the 1700s
and from what I can see there were several members unrelated who moved from Norr Degergard
to Bromarv so both ended up wit!
h the new surname that stuck but were not related. This can only be ve
rified by yDNA testing today.
Can you find your roots in Finland or are they located elsewhere? Where do you live?
Hopefully something here is useful.
Kindest regards,
Bob Carswell
Toronto
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