Need help figuring out a few words in a birth record. In Ancestry card catalog it's found in Sweden >Church Records, 1500-1937 >Kalmar County >Doderhult Parish >Births, 1862-1862(:78)

It's the first record on the first page, Carl Johan Albert born Jan. 12, 1862. The word oakta (illegitimate) is under his name. In the section for parents' names, there are five words: A 4-6 letter word starting with O, then Maria, then Gustafson (I think), then piga (I think -- unmarried woman), then a longer word starting with S or L that might be a place name? something like Smorkullan? Thanks for any advice!

If you follow the directions from this url, you will provide us with the GID number (100008.7.23000), which takes us directly to the right image.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SWEDEN/2011-02...


100008.7.23000, [Kalmar] _scb Kalmar, .78, Births, 1862 - 1862, 0-0, Image 230 of 473

#1 (in this parish for the year 1862)

born January 12

tally mark in column for male child

Carl Johan Alfred (not Albert)

oäkta (illegitimate)

tally mark in column for male illegitimate child

Parent:

Olsdtr. (Olsdotter) Maria Gustafva; piga (female farm worker); Smörkullen (a farm or village in Döderhult parish)

tally mark in column for unmarried mother (ej gift = not married)

26, which is the age of the mother

Judy

Your record that you found on Ancestry.com was an SCB record, which was an extraction of the full birth/baptism record. It left out some details.

Arkiv Digital has a scan of the full birth record, which adds a few extra details.

http://www.arkivdigital.net (subscription)

Döderhult C:7 (1861-1879) Image 23 (AID: v37981.b23, NAD: SE/VALA/00065)

The female farm worker (piga) Maria Gustafva Olsdotter lived at Smörkullehorfen in Döderhult parish. (The "Svenska Ortnamn 1999" cd says that Smörkullhorva, modern spelling, is a gård = farm.)

Carl Johan Alfred was baptised 16 January.

Baptism witnesses were the worker Nils Peter Petersson and "its" wife Stina Kajsa Svensdotter in Smörkullehorfen; the farmhand Otto Olsson ibm (Ibm = ibidem, which is Latin for the same place); female farm worker Christina Rehn? "på Fredriksberg ???"

The mother was absolved (for the sin of this illegitimate birth) on 2 March.

Ingela Martenius has written an excellent article about Swedish customs for births and baptisms.

http://web.comhem.se/~u31263678/genealogy/Baptism.pdf

Judy