Hörnefors Parish, Västerbotten, Sweden Genealogy

Hörnefors

Guide to Hörnefors Parish, Sweden ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records. <br

History
Hörnefors parish was formed on 1 May 1913 by transferring part of Umeå county parish and part of Nordmaling parish to the new parish. Bjänberg 1-4, Bjurå 1-2, Degerbäcken, Fjällholm, Frängstorp 1-2, Gubbsvedjan 1-2, Hammartorp, Häggnäs 1-2, Höglund, Hörneå 1-7, Norrmjöle 1-5, Nyland, Stugunäs were transferred from Umeå landsförsamling, Sörmjöle 1-6, Tredingen 1-2 and Åheden 1-2 together with Hörnefors mill and sulphite factory and from Nordmaling parish Sörbyn, Norrbyn, Håknäs and Ängersjö.

Hörnefors-Strömbäck's mill parish was added in 1792 when it was broken out of Umeå county. The parish was incorporated into Umeå county in 1861.

Strömbäck's glassworks, which was located in Umeå county, had received privileges in 1751. The construction of the mill had already begun in 1748 at Ström's watercourse near the Umeälven river outlet in the Gulf of Bothnia. It had, after varying fates, in 1787 been taken over by the company Åberg och Grahn, which at this time owned Hörnefors ironworks, privileged in 1775. The latter was located in the southeastern part of Umeå county by the Hörneån near its outlet to the sea. The distance by land between the two mills should have been about 2½ miles.

In order to arrange a more regular holding of services at the mill churches that existed at the mills, the mill owner, the company Åberg and Grahn, asked the cathedral chapter in Härnösand to hire and pay a special mill preacher. The cathedral chapter gave its approval 27/4 1791. The following year, the first mill preacher took office. From then on, there were mill preachers continuously until the year 1861, which year marks the end of the mill parish.

The preserved house examination books, which cover the years 1842-1861, occupy, in addition to those living at Hörnefors mill, also a larger or smaller number of the inhabitants of the villages Bjänberg (Brenberg), Bjurå (Bureå), Degerbäcken, Frängstorp, Grubbsvedjan, Häggnäs, Hörneå, Nyland, Sörmjöle and Tredingen. The mill people at Strömbäck are not recorded in the house examination books. Whether there was previously a house examination book for the mill people there, has not been possible to determine. All those who are listed in Hörnefors-Strömbäck's mill parish's house examination books also seem to be found in Umeå county parish's books.

The church register for the years 1813-1861 (C: 1) seems to take up more completely only church ordinances, which concern persons who have lived at Hörnefors mill. The "report" for the years 1840-1861 (C: 2) seems to be more complete than the church register with regard to notices, which refer to such persons as refer to such persons who lived in the villages occupied in the house examination books and at Strömbäck's mill. All births, marriages and deaths within the working-class parish also seem to have been recorded in Umeå County Council's books.

The parish constituted its own pastorate.

Place Names
Degerbäck Gubbsvedjan  Häggnäs, Hörnefors, Hörneå  Tredingen, Trängtorp

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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 ($), index and images. Also on Ancestry.com ($), Digital ($), and SVAR''' at Riksarkivet.

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Military Records

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