Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:37:22 +0100
"Rune Johansson" <gentiana1@spray.se>

Charles Mudd,
I have done a quick lookup on the Emigrant CD for the unusual surname
Wivatt
and found only one. Here he is:
Förnamn: ERIK
Efternamn: WIVATT
Ålder: 23 år Kön: M
Församling: LJUNGBY Län: G
Titel/Anm: TOFFELMAKARE
Utresehamn: GÖTEBORG
Utvandrdag: 1923 01 27
Destination: CHICAGO IL
Källkod: 109:111:33960
Look at my home site, too!
Best regards from
Rune Johansson
E-mail: Gentiana@pp.sbbs.se
URL: http://www.torget.se/users/2/2346/index.htm
URL: http://home1.pp.sbbs.se/Gentiana/default.htm
-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Från: Charles Mudd <muddhaven@earthlink.net>
Till: SWEDEN-L@rootsweb.com <SWEDEN-L@rootsweb.com>
Datum: den 9 januari 2000 07:54
Ämne: [Sweden] WIVATT, BECK and BOHLIN, BERGQUIST and HEDLUND
families
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Fought in the Swedish Army against Napoleon at the Battle of
Waterloo. Wounded and Discharged in 1816.


Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:31:30 -0700
Jim Turner <turner@genweb.net>

The LDS Family History Library has Swedish Military Records from the
Waterloo era. I don't know offhand how far back their military
records go, but I've gotten military records from the 1790s-1810s,
and I know they had records older than that.
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Mon, 12 Oct 1998 19:17:24 -0600
mother.elmo@qconline.com

Actually, I'd expect Paul to be Olafson, but close enough.

There is ONE expection that I've read about (but not come across) to
the patrynamic naming system. If a man was in the service, sometimes
he was "awarded" a last name that WAS passed on to his children,
supposedly.

Then, in 1900, this whole system was "replaced" and everyone was told
to take a last name and "stick with it". Most did. But they had a
choice what to pick for last names ...their current father's first
name, the name of their town, the name of their occupation, etc.

In Norway, usually what "appears" to be a last name is not part of
the name AT ALL, but rather a farm name. Then when the family moved
from farm to farm, that name CHANGED! Are you researching Norway or
Sweden? If Norway, then is Wivatt maybe a farm name? If so, then the
Paul Olsson Wivatt and Magnus Paulson Wivatt would make sense. I'd
just about be positive Wivatt is the name of their farm. This would
indicate they kept the same farm for 3 generations at least, not at
all unusual. You could search the online censes (probably the 1801
one) for that farm name.