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Skriv ut sidan - Tösse AI:1 (1757-1761) - translation
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Titel: Tösse AI:1 (1757-1761) - translation
Skrivet av: Ingela Martenius skrivet 2012-09-05, 13:00
Certainly klockare was a paid job (by the church, i.e. by the state). Like nearly everybody in the countryside that had some sort of profession or occupation, the klockare were also farmers. Yes, from the vicar or the colonel down to the tailor or the mid-wife - all farmers.
As a klockare you applied for the job and presented your merits (a CV, quite simply). Then it depended on what the vicar was after - the high-end one or the low-end one. Klockare was always a respected position, but the high-end ones were as close to being gentry (Sw. eqv. ståndsperson) as was possible without actually being it.
Since it was a job that could require quite a lot of schooling, many klockare came from other parts of the county or diocese or even of the country. In fact, this isn't a bad indication if it was the more qualified sort of klockare or not - the more qualified the more likely it was that he came from outside the parish.
I doubt the vicar wanted a relative as klockare - professionally they worked close together but socially the vicar most definitely was gentry while the klockare wasn't. So how did you handle that situation if you were related to one another? Did you invite the klockare to dinner or not?
Had money - nobody had money in Sweden. Yes, there were of course rich people but they had very little money - their wealth was in the land they owned. And everybody worked. Certainly an estate owner had a nicer job than a farmhand, but the leisured class as in living off an inherited fortune (managed by your man of business) and doing nothing didn't exist in Sweden. Jane Austen's novels couldn't have been written in Sweden.