1.Måns1Rosendahl1 was born Abt. 1720 in Sprätilsboda district, Kristianopel Parish, Sweden, and died Unknown. He married KarinAndersdotter2 Bef. 1744 in Sprätilsboda, Kristianopel, daughter of Anders Unknown. She was born in Sprätilsboda Kristianopel, and died Unknown.
Notes for Måns Rosendahl:
The Rosendahl name is very biblical but is a common name in Finland, Sweden and Germany. It is frequently accompanied with a biblical first name. It is not a Jewish name as all the members of the family were baptized into the Swedish Lutheran Church.
Notes for Karin Andersdotter:
The surname of the family changed from one generation to the next. This was accomplished using the "patronymic system of names." The daughter took the father's given name plus dotter. The son took the father's given name plus son. The second "S" makes the father's name possessive (the son or daughter of, in this case, Ander).The dotter is frequently abbreviated in the Swedish records as are many other terms which makes reading them much more difficult. (Kristianopel is frequently spelled Christianopel. It is also abbreviated some times on the same page "Xianopel." This makes things more interesting because the letter "F" in Gothic script looks like an "X") Occasionally the mother had a superior position to the father and so some children took the name of the mother plus son or dotter. When the daughter married she did not take the surname of her husband but kept her old surname. This meant the surname of the family changed with each generation. There were two exceptions. If the given name of the oldest son for three generations was the same the surname stayed the same. The other was when the surname was not a "son" name such as Rosendahl, Hammar or Tollquist. These names usually had some meaning to the family: they were in the military, the location they lived in or their job. The problem with this system is that there are thousands of individuals with the same name. Middle names were used only occasionally, and when they were the individual frequently went by that name. The only way you can identify who is who is by where they are from and their date of birth. Unfortunately ages are occasionally off by a year one way or the other. The best way to sort this out is to find the individual in several records or in several places in the same record. I was very lucky in accomplishing this in many cases. Fortunately the Swedish Parish records are very redundant with some ministers being especially thorough. This system of naming was abolished by law in 1901. roo
More About Måns Rosendahl and Karin Andersdotter:
Marriage: Bef. 1744, Sprätilsboda, Kristianopel
Child of Måns Rosendahl and Karin Andersdotter is:
DanielMånsson2Rosendahl, born September 28, 1744 in Sprätilsboda District,Kristianopel Parish, Blekinge län Sweden; died December 19, 1807 in Kristianopel Parish Sweden.
