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Titel: SV: Help Reading Farm Name in Marriage Recors
Skrivet av: Klas Wallén skrivet 2017-06-03, 19:39
You are welcome! I must point out though that "härstädes" is an old expression not very common today :). "Här" is the same as here and "städes" is a variation of "stad" or "sta", a very common ending in Swdedish names for Parishes or places. In old Swedish stad simply meant Place but today it means City. Also I can say that the different places you can see in our Church Archives often refers to what we in old Swedish call for a "By" (or many Byar). A "By" was a Place that had at least two farms but it could have several farms and also some minor cottages on their estates. The large land reform in early 19 th Century split them up so today it is most common to see singel farms in the Swedish Cultural Landscape.
Here is a link to a site in English about the land reforms. Village in the text is not the same as the English Word Village, a Place with a few hundred people up to a few thousand people, but the Swedish "by".