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About Jonas Svensson Wåhlstrand
He was Bailiff (Befallningsman or Betjänt) of Tyllinge for Baron Sven Johan Duwall (1746-1819). The baron was also godfather to Jonas' son Sven. Jonas and his wife disappear from the household rolls about 1800, when a new bailiff took his place.
Justin Swanström has suggested that Jonas might have been the baron's illegitimate half-brother, although the evidence is circumstantial. There is a family tradition among some of Jonas' Wåhlstrand's descendants that their unnamed ancestor was the illegitimate son of a Scottish nobleman. Taken together with the fact that Baron Sven Duwall was godfather to Jonas' son Sven, it is possible that there is a relationship but it is also possible that family tradition has garbled the facts. It should be noted that it was relatively common for a prominent man or woman to stand as a godparent for the first child of important servants.
The tradition of descent from a Scottish nobleman appears in modern generations of two different branches descended from Inga Honette (1800-1870), a granddaughter of Jonas Wåhlstrand and wife of Jonas Svanström. The tradition implies that the Scottish nobleman was the father of the Svanström line, but the tradition does not fit the known facts for either Jonas Svanström or his father Peter Cavat, but it does fit, broadly speaking, Jonas Wåhlstrand, who was connected to the Duwalls, a noble family with roots in Scotland. In contrast, the family tradition is not known among the descendants of Sven Höckert (1785-1859), the son of Jonas Wåhlstrand.
If Jonas was an illegitimate Duwall, his DNA should match some other members of the interrelated MacDowall and Duwall families, but it's not certain whether they do. The MacDowalls and MacDougalls are two distinct Scottish families with similar surnames. Sven Höckert's descendants belong to Haplogroup I1. This result does not match the majority of MacDougall families. Most MacDougalls belong to Haplogroup R1b, although there is one known I1 result (2015). Results for members of the MacDowell family are not being made public at this time (2015). The reason for this unusual secrecy is unknown, but it is rumored that results show a major break in the MacDowall line.
Resources
- Hockert Family DNA Project
- Alternate MacDowell Project
- MacDougall Surname DNA Project
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Sep 12 2018, 7:37:59 UTC
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Nov 29 2018, 3:17:08 UTC
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Jonas Svensson Wåhlstrand's Timeline
| 1747 |
June 4, 1747
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Kullstugan, Dalhem, Kalmar County, Sweden
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June 5, 1747
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Dalhem, Kalmar County, Sweden
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June 5, 1747
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Dalhem, Kalmar, Sweden
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| 1781 |
June 22, 1781
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Tyllinge, Dalhem, Kalmar, Sweden
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| 1782 |
August 17, 1782
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Tyllinge, Dalhem, Kalmar, Sweden
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| 1785 |
March 9, 1785
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Tyllinge, Dalhem, Kalmar, Sweden
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| 1788 |
October 27, 1788
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Tyllinge, Dalhem, Kalmar, Sweden
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| 1790 |
May 6, 1790
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Tyllinge, Dalhem, Kalmar, Sweden
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| 1793 |
December 4, 1793
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Tyllinge, Dalhem, Kalmar, Sweden
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