Estate inventory for a couple in early 1700s [closed]

Question

Want help in finding estate inventory for Bengt Larsson-8111 Willman and Anna Insulander-1, Bengt in 1712 and Anna in 1729, both in Ånimskog, I have extreme diffuclties reading the text and dates are a bit unclear, could someone help me find them.

Answer 1

To start, perhaps tell everyone which language? There are WikiTree people all over the world and Scandinavians have been keeping genealogy records back to Beowulf! LOL

Its a treasure trove. And I'm sure you can find someone to quickly translate it. At least I hope so and I wish you  good luck!

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thought it was quite obvious is Swedish, based on me tagging it as such and the area of which they died

Answer 2

Living in Ånimskog their estate inventories should be in Tössbo häradsrätt FII:1. You didn't say which text it was you had problems with reading. Maybe it was this book, or maybe you hadn't found that book, and this is helping.

If it is in that book you have problems reading then I think you still would be able to find which pages they are on. Have you done that? Each new estate inventory starts on a right-hand page with a year and date and then soon comes the name, underlined.

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Yes its in Tössbo, and yes on the first page its says 1709, but then I dont find any other dates until 1737

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OK, you wrote you had difficulties reading some text, so I was trying to find what text that was and see if I could help in reading it. But it seems like the problem was actually something else.

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I assumed it was due to me not spotting them, so I tried to look to see if I could spot names, but I have hard time reading them, I use digitala riksarkivet, I should be able to find at least the husband

Answer 3

Det är sällan jag kan hitta någon bouppteckning för min släkt  i början av 1700-talet, om de inte var adel och finns i hovrätten. Inte så konstigt att  Tössbo härad inte hade någon registrerad BOU 1709 - 1737.  Senare måste det ju göras om den efterlevande skulle gifta om sig. Så ev. egendom kunde fördelas mellan t ex änkan och barnen. När änkan sedan dog, var det inte så noga, vad jag sett. - - Vill man få fler uppgifter av en bonde eller annan som kunde betala skatt, finns ju mantalslängderna, där jag brukar kolla på flera år.

Answer 4

It sounds like you have not found the machine written probate/estate inventory indices that exist for most court archives in Sweden. It is very tedious to browse through the actual volume itself. Here is the available indices for Älvsborg county:

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/nad?postid=Arkis+3f538279-b29b-411a-8758-1848415624fc

And here is the index for Tössbo hundred for the years 1709-1850:

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0104240_00001

Having said that, there doesn't appear to be any preserved estate inventories made before 1737 except for one from 1709.

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Thank you, it really seems like the years dont exist, so I guess its the end of that lead