Help with the Swedish name/word Åbo.

[Vidar Larsen]

I have been informed that my ancestor Johannes Andersson is recorded in Swedish Husförhör as living on Bossgårds Rote, Snärsås in Mjöbäck Älvsborg (AI:1 page 12). He recorded as Åbo Johannes Andersson He was born in 1776.

 

The only reference I have been able to find regarding the name/word Åbo is that this is the Swedish name for the Finnish town of Turku. Am I to take this as meaning that he was from Turku orr has the name other meanings. Can somebody help please?

 

mvh Vidar

[Tor Weidling]

Hei Vidar

 

Åbo also means a person that use a "hemman" - a farm etc. See http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85bo_%28olika_betydelser%29

 

Hilsen Tor

[Vidar Larsen]

Many thanks for clarification Tor. So I can forget Finland at least for now. mvh Vidar