Help with an uncommon name

Question

I've used Engelbrekt, but it's wrong. I can't make out the real name, best seen here: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0036960_00046  Engn???? Larsson. Ingeborg is his daughter.

It would seem Ingeborg started having children at age 11? I could be down the wrong rabbit hole.

Answer 1

Well, Engebrecht is pretty much the same as Engelbrekt, isn't it?

What's uncommon is rather that 'e' and 'n' are more or less indistinguishable in that hand.

Ingeborg starting to have children at eleven does seem like the wrong rabbit hole, though.

I also wonder if Engelbrekt Larsson's Ingeborg, born 1711, is the same Ingeborg as "pigan Ingeborg" in his household in 1720. She ought to be "dottren". There aren't any sons or daughters on Engelbrekt's page, but the households on the previous page have several.

Comments

The Ingeborg Engelbrechtsdotter you have a birth record and a death record for is not the wife of Bengt Pehrsson in Gunnerud and mother of his children.

Ingeborg, born in 1711 in Näs and dead 1736 in Näs at age 24, married Pehr Göstafsson in Laggåsen 17 Feb 1730 (or 1731?)

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0037009_00020

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Hustru Ingeborg Engelbrektsdotter in Gunnerud died 28 October 1741 and was buried 8 November. She was 43 years, 5 months old.

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0037012_00047

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You're probably right, but the (presumably) same person was able to write Engelbrecht much clearer elsewhere. The unclear version seems to follow this man & his daughter.

Thanks, Eva, for finding the correct Ingeborg...profile fixed.

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The handwriting with an e that looks like an n is very similar to the one that was common in Denmark-Norway, and what we call "Gothic". It seems to be less common in Sweden.