Mathias(Matts) Ersson
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Torpare |
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1823-04-10 Y,Stöde,Usland |
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Nr 2:5 Was listed Mathias but named later as Matts |
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from 1823-04-10 Y,Stöde,Usland |
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from 1848 Y,Torp,Berge |
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Lived here 1852 when the mother died. |
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from 1853 to 1859 Y,Stöde,Ulvsjön |
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from 1859 to 1907-09-08 Y,Torp,Hjältanstorp |
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"Alahot" is the place where he lived.
Hjältanstorp 1:7, 9,5 ha Avstyckat från Hjältanstorp 1:3. First title the son Eric is
the owner. Contract 1885-04-23. Bye for 650:- Later Ersson bye this of the son 1887-04-18
wich is moving to Usland in Stöde. Price 568 Swedish krones. Later sold too
Per Larsson with spouse Anna Katarina 1895-07-09 Price 600:-, and 266:26 payed true note
and the rest 333:74 as a mortgage. Mats lived here with Per and spouse until he
dissapear in forest. The farm is 2 km north of Hjältanstorp in parish Torp, 500m vest of
the road. |
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1907-09-07 Y,Torp,Hjältanstorp |
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Man vanished leaving no trace in the forest at Hjältanstorp.
On September 7th, 1907 a man named Ersson vanished when he was out alone picking
cowberries to make his own jam. Larsson to whom he had sold his crofter's holding was
later suspected of having killed Ersson who lived at his place. The children got into
touch with two Norwegian clairvoyants "The Slottom brothers", who stated that
Ersson was to be found on a bog. He was also found at about three o'clock p.m. on August
4th, 1908. The salesman Olof Waldemar Olsson and his sister Ragnhild Olsson and two young
children found him on the "Hanganso" bog. Only skin and bones remained. This bog
is situated almost 3 miles SE of his home, halfway to Gransjön, near the border between
the parishes of Torp and Stöde but just a little into Stöde in an area that then was
under the jurisdiction of the district court of Tuna. Erson's basket of birch bark
that he had carried on his back was properly placed on the ground.
Later on when people had gathered to take care of him they were irresolute
about how to do it. Then Finnängs-Janne is said to have uttered: If we took
our hands when you were alive we can do so now too, and he carried him on
his shoulders, probably only a short distance and after that used a wooden
box.
Larsson was cleared of suspicion. Ersson's son Eric had passed away half a
year after his father's disappearance so he did not live to experience
this. Two weeks later Per Larsson made an estate inventory after Ersson.
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1908-08-09 Torp 1) |
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Proberly buried in Fränsta vest part. |
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1849-02-02 Y,Stöde |
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Pastorsexp Fränsta |
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| The oldest house on Alahot, where Ersson lived with
family. |
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