Anna-Greta 29/10 1812 Humlefall – Äskeryd,Adelöv – Älmeberg,Vireda – 27/5 1900

The pic above is on the road between Humlefall and Äskeryd villages in Adelöv parish where Anna-Greta grew up.

   Anna-Greta Jonsdotter was born 29/10 in Humlefall village in Adelöv parish. Her parents were the farmer Jonas Svensson and her mother Sara Samuelsdotter.

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She was baptized one day old in the close-by Adelöv church. Her ‘fadder’ -godfathers and godmothers were: The soldier Gabriel Lindqvist and his wife Greta from Humlefall and Lars and Ewa Jansson from Adelöv.


 She had  6 siblings of whom 4 reached adult age.

1. A 2 year older brother Gustav who was the firstborn 1810-Sept 9.

2. When she was three years old Samuel was born 19/1 1815- (He died 37 years old 17/4 1852 in Älmeberg)

3.They moved to the neighbouring village Äskeryd *, in Adelöv parish where Maja-Stina  was born 20/6 1817 but she died 5 months old 15/11 when Anna-Greta was 7 years old.

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4. 23/11 1818 brother Swen was born.

5. 15/5 1821 Carl was born as Anna-Greta was 9.

6.1824 the second Maja-Stina was born 10/5 1724 but she also died 19/2 1825 9 months old. Anna-Greta was now 14 years old and had already lost two baby-sisters.

Anna-Greta moved to Vireda parish (Älmeberg/Elmberg: a Rusthåll farm = a military cavalry/manor farm) with her parents on 23 May 1826 where they lived until at least 1830. She was then 14- 18 years old. It looks like the family moved to Horbacken, another farm in 1834. 

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Anna-Greta married  Johannes Håkansson from Sötåsa* Southern farm 7/11 1834, 22 years old and moved to his inherited farm. She came from Vireda at this time.
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She was 22 when she had her first child and 46 when Matilda – her youngest- was born.  Their second child Anna-Lotta, born 1837 became only 7 years old. Anna-Greta was then 32 years old and had 4 more children between 1 and 9 years old, expecting another one when she died.
Anna-Greta became the one in the village who prepared the dead and her husband who partially was a carpenter,  made caskets.

Later she did this job together with her oldest daughter Christina who had moved back to Sötåsa after a few years away, together with her family at Sötåsa farm until it was sold 1874.

Christina and Carl Johan, her husband and family  of 6 children stayed at Sötåsa until it was sold 1874.

When Sötåsa Farm was sold Anna-Greta and Johannes stayed at Sötåsa farm through an ‘excluding contract’* until Johannes died in 1890. After Johannes died, Anna-Greta probably stayed with Christina’s family at Önnestorp* farm on the other side of the lake even though she would have access to the adjusted ‘excluding’ contract of living at Sötåsa up until her death.

(* for a more thorough description of this type of contract see “Johannes” 

Johannes, AnnaGreta o EmmaSofia - maybe As Anna-Greta died in the year of 1900, there were still 3 of her children living in Sweden: Christina– with whom she had been staying, Johanna Maria who lived 23-35 km:s away, further south in Småland with her family and Johan August who had moved to Nässjö 40 kms away. At the time these distances were quite far away from each other.

 Anna-Greta survived her husband by 10 years and became 87 years old.

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