tisdag 6 maj 2014

Bouppteckning - Estate and Inventory - Probate


In Sweden when someone dies and has something left we are doing bouppteckning (eng Estate inventory/ Probate). This document needs to be done 3 months after the person has died. In this document you will see children of the person who died and also what she left which is really detailed and gives an indication how they lived. Older Estate and Inventories are more detailed....

"Det ålåg efterlevande man, hustru eller andra arvingar att uppteckna all egendom som fanns vid dödstillfället. Uppteckningen skulle ske inom tre månader efter dödsfallet och avskrift inlämnas till domstolen (häradsrätt eller rådhusrätt). I bouppteckningen finns förutom information om arvingars namn och bostadsort detaljerade uppgifter om boets fasta egendom och lösöre liksom fordringar och skulder. "

In 1734 we got a law in Sweden where it was stated that you needed to do a bouppteckning when someone died. One reason for that was that some part of what was left should be paid to the goverment (det allmänna).

Arkiv Digital and SVAR has some bouppteckningar but you can also order them
see below

In the Archives they are normally in serie FII  A good site to learn more about bouppteckningar is this genealogy-resources page

How to order a Bouppteckning


See http://stadsarkivet.stockholm.se/alla-bestallningar/bouppteckning/

Good if you know

Namn - Name
Födelsedatum - Year of birth
Dödsdatum - Death date
Dödsort - Place of death

If the person died before 1 jul 2001 then it is Riksarkivet
http://riksarkivet.se/bouppteckning

After 1 jul 2001 then it is skatteverket (eng. IRS)
http://goo.gl/EPY4AE

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2 weeks after ordered I got a PDF for the price of 4 Skr = 50p
But you can set a limit when you order. I think the price is 300 Skr if they have to search in the books....

The  returned pdf document

Page one is just order information so I translate Page 2



Fast Swedish / English Translation
No 3 Råneå D T 1928

Year 1928 22 jan was undersigned assigned by Emmanuel Eriksson in Mjöfjärden to do an estate and Inventory after widow Karolina Johansson in Mjöfjärden who died last year 29 dec.

Posthumus children 
The son Olle born 1872 1 aug
Son Johan born 1874 4 dec
Son Erik August 1877 14 april
Son Emanuel 1879 17 december
Daughter Maria 1983 20 June
Daughter Anna 1886 24 May

As ??!?! (the one that tells what is left) son Emmanuel Eriksson and below what was included and valued

1 cabinet 5 kr
1 table 3 kr
1 sink 2 kr
div pans 2 kr
1 curtain 2 kr
Cash in the bank 154 Skr

Debts
Cost doing the inventory 100 Skr
Fees doing the inventory 5 Skr
Left 63. 83 Skr

Mjöfjärden 22 jan 1929

Correct done ,,,,,,

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Other samples of Bouppteckning


Other sample of Bouppteckning
From 1967 http://minancestry.blogspot.se/2014/04/boupteckningsinstrument-ankefru-sofia.html
This is from my fathers mothers mother and is the first place where I find all her children with wifes. She didn't own so much so there was no interesting details.

From 1874 found in Arkiv Digital as scanned a very detailed Bouppteckning after Bengt Hjorth
See also http://minancestry.blogspot.se/2013/12/story-of-bengt-hjorth.html
Norrala tingslags häradsrätt FII:39b (1872-1874) Bild 382 / sid 375 (AID: v152183.b382.s375, NAD: SE/HLA/1040053)
http://www.arkivdigital.se/aid/show/v152183.b382.s375
http://www.arkivdigital.se/aid/info/v152183.b382.s375

Page 1 top part 

Transkribering in Swedish  Nr 83 Norrala H ? 1874      375
År 1874 den 27 Oktober förrättades Bouppteckning efter förre Båtsmannen Bengt Hjort i Söderala och Wannsätter som afled den 26 juni samma år och efterlemnade  Hustrun Brita Andersdotter och söner Olof, Jonas, Johan och Lars samt döttrarna Margtha och Brita, alla myndiga. Enkan Uppgaf boet vilket uppkrifs och värderas som ses?  af följande
Bad English translationNr 83 Norrala
Year 1874 27 Oct a Estate and Inventory was done after soldier Bengt Hjort in Söderala and Wannsäter who died the same year 26 juni and left widow Brita Andersdotter with sons Olof, Jonas, Johan and Lars and the daughters Margtha and Brita all 18 years old. The widow stated what was left and below how it was valued...


Page 1 lower part 

Transkriberat på svenska page 1 En stugbyggnad 100
En Lagerbyggnad 30 Fähus 10
Kreatur en Ko 60 en kviga 40 3 st får a 5 15.00
Gångkläder en Svart rock 10.00 2 st sämre rockar 4.00
2 par byxor 5.00 2 st västar 3.00
2 st Halsdukar 1.00 6 st Lintyg 1.00
  

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