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About The Wasmouth Family ~
This family website is welcome to genealogists who wish to view the ancestors of our family.   However, the main purpose of the site is for family members to be able to view and exchange  information.  Family details and pictures for living relatives are only accessible by family  members.

It has been a joy to learn about the history of my family, but it is an ongoing process to  bring these personal experiences together.  To better encourage family members to participate, I  have divided my fathers' and mothers' families into separate Tribal pages.

This website is dedicated to the ancestors and decendants of the Wasmouth family. If you click on  the family tree, the first family member that you will see is Johan "Hjalmar" Wasmouth (1853- 1898).  It is only fitting that the family tree begins with him as the spelling of his surname  survives among many family branches today.  It is also natural to begin with Hjalmar because many  known LIVING members in this tree can trace their family to his children.

LIVING family members who are decendants of Hjalmar have a host of different family names today:   Cederlund; Markovits; Bergväll; Dunström; Ohlsson; Lousseief; Hällqvist; Svensson; Broman; Eklund;  Harrison; Fehling; Svadling; Wågman; Walhgren; Rytenberg; Wernberg; Brännstrom; Campeti; Wassmouth;  and of course Wasmouth.  There are likely more, and I hope to be able to add them to the family tree  as family members come forward to exchange information.

Each family member who has access to this website can update and change information pertaining to  their immediate family (parents; siblings; and children).  This is important because I am the  first to acknowledge that some information may be missing or inaccurate.  There can be no better  resource for updating information than immediate family.  I also encourage family to share PHOTOS  and stories.  Please take the time to view the photo index - pictures are the best way to connect!  Family photos can be entered into the index or directly into the family tree.  To help facilate  this, I have created individual Albums in the photo index for each child of Hjalmar Wasmouth.   Hjalmar had 10 children; and under each of these children are their descendants.  You just need to  look for your ancestor to find your family group.  There is plenty of space for more uploading of  pictures - so please feel free to contribute!  If you have found errors outside your immediate  family, please contact me.  I have also created individual Albums for Early ancestors, and for  branching families of interest.  This also includes the families of many spouses, and my  grandmother's family.

** As a reminder, only family members of this site can see pictures of living family members.  Please do not exchange or share any pictures outside this website without the explicit conscent  of that family member.

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SOME HISTORY OF THE WASMOUTH NAME 

The family name has had a number of spellings over the generations. The prior spelling "Wasmuht"  was likely the prevalent spelling of Hjalmar's father Johan Teodor "Little John" (1822-1888),  and his grandfather Johan Gustav "Big John" (1791-1876), his great grandfather Philip (1760-1829),  and his great great grandfather Emanuel (1731-1797).  However, Hjalmar spelled his last  name "Wassmouth" in some of the letters that he wrote to his wife Amalia, and there are instances  where some of Big John's children spelled their name this way. Family documentation and some  public records have also shown instances where the family name was spelled "Wassmuht"; and the  archives show a more German spelling "Wassmuth" or "Wasmuth" with respect to Emanuel Wasmuht's  ancestors.  These variations were likely noted by the family's first major researcher, Ragna  Quitsau Olhsson (1905-1998).

It is important to acknowledge Ragna's research and contribution to knowledge of Emanuel's family  lineage. She lived in Germany during World War II, and was well suited to deciphering German  archives and documents.  Through her research, Emanuel Wasmuht's ancestors can be traced to Lingen  on the German/Dutch border. In her later years in Sweden, she published a number of articles about  the family history; and went on to write a book about her life in Germany and her family  experiences.

Ragna, and other dutch genealogists like Richard Rhulshof (www.rhulshof.nl) further confirmed  information about Emanuel Wasmuht's father Philipp Wasmuht (1690-1773), his grandfather Johann  Wasmuht (1643-1716), and his great grandfather George Wasmuth.  However, Emanuel's great great  grandfather warrants more research.

It is not entirely clear, but Ragna may have been the first to make the assertion that Cornelius  Gruber Was Mut Hat (1580-1650) was the earliest known ancestor of this particular family line.  No  other family trees or research have thus far been uncovered which supports this hypothesis.  As  the story has been told, Cornelius was a common lord/vassal within the feudal system in the area  of Kassel, in Northern Hesse, Germany.  His subjects/peasants, or some other group, rebelled and  forced him to flee.  There is no existing evidence to show that either Cornelius, or his son  George settled in Lingen.  Documents from the Lingen Archive only show that his grandson Johann,  and great grandson Philip Wasmuht were established there.  This will diserve future research.

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NOTABLE DISCOVERIES IN THE FAMILY TREE:  SWEDISH ANCESTRY

I cannot overemphasize the incredible work by Per Arne "Pelle" Hällqvist in researching family  history.  He has signficantly expanded Ragna's work to include extensive research into the Swedish  lines.  Through time consuming and tedious research into the Swedish Church books, new branches  are continously being added.  This is particularly true of Hjalmar's wife Amalia Josefina  Söderstrom Lundin (1855-1946), his mother, Anna Brita "Nanna" Andersdotter (1825-1913), and his  daughter-in-law Lydia Margareta "Margit" Lovisa Lundqvist (1890-1968). I am extremely happy to  have exchanged and gained access to so much of his work from across the ocean.

Early Ancestors of Amalia have been especially interesting, some of whom commonly appear in  genealogical trees, and can easily be found with a name search within the genealogical community.   Ancestors of interest to Amalia are: Nils Larsson (1500-); Welam Claesson Benoni (1580-1676); Per  Nilsson Västgote (1586-1688); Algot Oloffson (abt. 1514-), and his son Erland Algotsson (1538- 1628). Family trees of Welam and Per Nilson, for example, are numberous, as three of Welam's sons  married three of Per Nilsson's daughters.

Early Ancestors of Anna Brita "Nanna" which are of interest for future research is the Ringbom  family of Gotland.  There are many genealogists which share common ancestors with this family.

** As a side note, Pelle has also researched ancestors for my grandmother, Marianne Elisabeth  Carlsson Lorelius (1917-2009) on her paternal side.  Research through the Swedish church books on  Marianne's maternal side have been done by her cousin Gustav Gunnar.  I should note that LIVING  family members of Marianne's family can also find their ancestors on this website, and  I really  hope and look forward to them visiting and exchanging information.  Again, I am especially  interested in confirming information about living family members.

As is the case with Amalia, some ancestors of Marianne's mother Hilma Sophia Carlsson (1894-1972)  are also profoundly interesting.  Ancestral families such as the Tolfs and the Shults "Sholls"  intermarried often over several generations, and many genealogists today have confirmed their  descendants through the church books. 
   
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NOTABLE DISCOVERIES IN THE FAMILY TREE: DUTCH AND SPANISH ANCESTRY  

In the last couple of years, Pelle and I have made some fantastic discoveries into the family  lines of Emanuel Wasmuht's second wife, Johanna Margareta Tiquet (1728-1800). She was the great  granddaughter of Scipio Mijtens (1632-1688) and Elisabeth Grill (-1693) on her maternal side.   Early family documents showed a relationship to the famous family of painters, the "Mijtens".   However beyond Scipio, the exact relationship was not exactly clear, and for some time it was  believed that Scipio Mijtens might be the son of Isaac Mijtens (one among four brothers and 3  sisters: including Daniel, David and Abraham).  This was quickly corrected with the publication  of "Jan Mijtens: Leben und Werk" by Alexandra Bauer in 2006, which included an in depth  genealogical survey of the Mijtens family. Without doubt, we now know that Scipio was the son of  Abraham Mijtens (-1670) and Sara Elsevier (1663-1648); and therefore Hjalmar Wasmouth's 4th  great grandfather.  A number of other family trees have come to light which support this,  including the old Adelvapens family page for the Mijtens.  
  
 It should be noted that in the 1600's & 1700's, segments of influential families from the  Netherlands migrated to Sweden.  Examples of these families included the "Peil Family" (Emanuel's  first wife Johanna Peil), the "Grill Family" (Elisabeth's father Anthony Grill), and the "Mijtens  Family" (Scipio and his cousins Dietrich and Martin).  Emanuel Wasmuht himself immigrated to  Sweden a few years later in 1754 from the Dutch/German border town of Lingen.  He was the pastor  of the Dutch Reformist Church in Stockholm, of which these families all belonged, and therefore  had constant contact with them.  It is not surprising to know, therefore, that these  families intermingled and intermarried often.  Emanuel's father-in-law, Isaac Tiquet (1690 -  1693), who was a member of the Church Steering committee, also likely facilitated a relationship  with these many families.

The discovery of Abraham Mijtens(I) and his wife Sara Elsevier(II) have profound implications for  future research. This is especially true of Sara's mother Barbara Lopez de Haro (III).

*** PLEASE SEE INFORMATION AND HISTORY OF HJALMAR'S ANCESTORS UNDER STORIES BELOW:

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Getting Around
There are several ways to browse the family tree. The Tree View graphically shows the relationship of selected person to their kin. The Family View shows the person you have selected in the center, with his/her photo on the left and notes on the right. Above are the father and mother and below are the children. The Ancestor Chart shows the person you have selected in the left, with the photograph above and children below. On the right are the parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. The Descendant Chart shows the person you have selected in the left, with the photograph and parents below. On the right are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Do you know who your second cousins are? Try the Kinship Relationships Tool. Your site can generate various Reports for each name in your family tree. You can select a name from the list on the top-right menu bar.

In addition to the charts and reports you have Photo Albums, the Events list and the Relationships tool. Family photographs are organized in the Photo Index. Each Album's photographs are accompanied by a caption. To enlarge a photograph just click on it. Keep up with the family birthdays and anniversaries in the Events list. Birthdays and Anniversaries of living persons are listed by month. Want to know how you are related to anybody ? Check out the Relationships tool.

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