Swedish women did not take their husband's name until the end of the 1800's

Started by Steve Trangsrud on Monday, November 14, 2011

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Today at 6:44 PM

Swedish women did not take their husband's name until the late 1800's. From 'Swedish naming practices in earlier times, surnames'
http://www.algonet.se/~hogman/Naming%20practice_eng.htm

"When a man and a woman got married the woman never adopted her husband’s patronymic name - a name ending with "son". A woman could never be someone's son.
If they both had a family name, the woman still kept her family name. If the husband had a family name and the woman a patronymic name she might change her last name to her husbands family name. But it was not very likely to occur before the 1800's.
It did not become a custom for a woman to adopt her husband's surname until the end of the 1800’s, when most families had adopted family names."

Today at 7:54 PM

Steve, I'm tagging the managers of that profile (Private User and Rose-Marie Karlsson) for you so you two can work it out.

I'm guessing you're talking about Kerstin Larsson, not Elin Andersdotter?

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