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June 6, 2014, to Krylbo, Dalarna.
Apparently a week or so ago the train line, which is
electric, between Stockholm and Uppsala had a wire that broke. Upon landing on the ground it started a fire
which put that section of line out of commission. It is still out of commission. So when we left Stockholm, our next stop was
not Uppsala, but Vesterås where the engine disconnected from one end of the
train and went around to the other end and pulled us in the opposite
direction! We were somewhat late arriving
at our destination of Avesta-Krylbo, but not too bad. It was a comfortable way to travel north to
Dalarna and be able to watch the countryside zip past, instead of having to
drive.
Our hosts for the next week are Jonne Lindroth and Inger
Mattsson. Inger is an almost cousin of
mine in that her Grandmother, Anna, was the lady who my Grandfather’s brother
wanted to marry. Anna didn’t emigrate
but stayed in Sweden and raised a family.
Jonne and Inger met us at the Avesta-Krylbo railroad station
and take us over to the Gammal Gård at Folkärna parish. Folkärna is one of the parishes I trace our
roots to. There is a farm house that was
moved to Folkärna Gammal Gården about 1928 and contains amazing examples of
Dalmalningar and Swedish antiques.
In Dalarna each parish had their unique dräkt. You can tell where someone is from by their
dräkt. In the photo the lady standing by
the fireplace is wearing her dräkt from Stora Tuna parish which is a bit north
of the area.
From Folkärna we went to neighboring Grytnäs parish’s Gammal
Gården. There we enjoyed afternoon
coffee and a sweet treat. There was a
program, including raising the flag, at three o’clock to celebrate National
Dagen.
Unfortunately Grytnäs kyrka was not open. It is a very old church that is worth
seeing. It was built on wet ground, so
to help support the church oak logs were put in to the ground. Since the ground is wet the logs don’t
rot. If the ground were to dry out, the
logs would decay and cause havoc for the church. Grytnäs parish is the birthplace for a great
grandmother Anna Klingström.
At
Folkärna parish I can trace my ancestors back to the late 1600’s beginning with
Carin Ersdotter who was born there in 1752.
She married Nils Giliusson and lived in Grytnäs. Nils was born in Stora Tuna and moved south
to Grytnäs.
Note: Here you can view part of David Anderson's Family Tree starting with Carin Ersdotter from Folkärna parish, for seven (7) generations down to David:
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