Malmö Hospitalsförsamlingen Parish, Malmöhus, Sweden Genealogy

Guide to Malmö Hospitalsförsamlingen Parish, Sweden ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

History
In 1528, the government decided that Malmö would take over the Gråbrödra and Helgeands monastery and be responsible for the hospital's care and operation. The oldest hospital was located in the former Gråbrödraklostret in now Kungsparken but moved to Rundelsgatan at the end of the 1600s. There was hardly any real medical care, or at least only to a very limited extent, but it was limited to providing for the poor insane. With the Church Law of 1686, the magistrate's position with the hospital ceased and the chairman of the board became the governor instead, and the board would also include the bishop and the mayor. However, the magistrate, who had the right to appoint certain board members, had some influence. Through the 1858 charter, the hospital got a local board, the hospital management. This consisted of the governor, the bishop and four members.

In the middle of the 1700s, a hospital was set up that not only cared for but also tried to cure the sick. The hospital was ordered in 1766 to mainly take care of "fools", terminally ill people or people with infectious diseases or others whom the hospital could not help.

1756 a central authority was added "Riksens ständers hospital- og barnhusdeputation" which got oversight of the hospital. The deputation was dissolved in 1765 and a senior management was appointed in 1766. From 1773, two Seraphim knights supervised, who in 1787 were replaced by the Seraphim Order Guild with oversight of both hospital and hospital. In 1877, the Seraphim Order Guild was replaced by the Swedish Board of Health. At the same time, the hospital and their property became state-owned.

According to Royal ordinance from 1774, a larger hospital was to be established in the capital city of each county and the smaller hospitals were to be withdrawn and reorganized into the larger one. Trelleborg hospital was merged in 1619 to Malmö, Lund in 1774, Ystad in 1779 and Landskrona in 1795. As a result, Malmö became a central hospital for southern Sweden and consisted primarily of insane patients. The Royal ordinance of 1825 stated that Malmö Central Hospital would care for patients from the entire southern district. When the hospital at Höje in Lund (St. Lars) was completed in 1879, the task as a central hospital for southern Sweden was transferred to Lund.

The oldest part of the Malmö hospital archive is stored in the Malmö city archives. The later records are at the national archives in Lund, which is also in Nov. 1989 received documents from 1880-1927 from the county council in Malmö county. This parish was dissolved in 1928. According to SCB, the parish was already closed by 1910.

(write information such as: how old the parish is, interesting facts about the parish, what alternate names it has, or any boundary changes.)

Place Names
A name register over birth, marr.and death within the parish 1786 - 1928.

To see what kind of place it is you will need a Swedish Gazetteer.

Surrounding Parishes
 * Malmö Garnisons
 * Malmö Hospital
 * Malmö Karoli
 * Malmö katolska
 * Malmö Mosaiska
 * Malmö Sankt Pauli
 * Malmö Sankt Petri

Census Records

 * Sweden Household Examination Records (Husförhörslängder)--explanation of this church record which is functionally the census of Sweden.
 * Sweden Household Examination Books, 1840-1947, ($), index and images. Also on Ancestry.com, ($), Arkiv Digital ($), and SVAR at Riksarkivet.

Online Database Church Records
The easiest way to access the Swedish Church Records is through the internet, using these five sites (see links to specific collections below). Four of these sites require a subscription for access. (ArkivDigital, Ancestry.com, and MyHeritage.com  are available at a FamilyHistory Center near you free of charge.)
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 * Arkiv Digital ($), and
 * SVAR at Riksarkivet.

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Family History Library Records
Click Sweden, Malmöhus Records for a full listing of microfilmed records (some digitized online) at the Family History Library, that may be digitized. Check back occasionally to see if your records have become available. In the meantime, some of them might be available at a Family History Center near you. Click on "Places within Sweden, Malmöhus and then select your parish.

Military Records

 * Sweden Military Records
 * Central Soldiers Register InstructionsSearch Engine

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