Hi Don,
On 7th april 2004, you inquired about your ancestor,
Rönnoug Andersdotter, married at Skee on 16 November,
1746. You could not find her birth (neither can I - she was
born in 1719, according to her death record), and you posed
the question whether the name might indicate a likely
Norwegian. It certainly is very rare name in Skee - I find
only two girls with that name, born in 1694 and 1695.
The nearest Norwegian parish is Enningdal. Mörkebacka is
about 5 km from the border, 3 km more from the first
Norwegian settlement, Berby, and a total of 12-15 km from
Enningdal church. Quite possibly your Rönnoug was born in
that area. - As a married woman, Rönnoug lived in
Vammen, which is right on the border. Most likely she went
around picking lingonberryies in the woods, never caring if
the berries were Swedish or Norwegian. (She had to walk
eastwards to reach the border. Vammen is southernmost
place in Sweden where you can do so. From there on, the
border turns east and then north, so everwhere else you
would walk westwards to go from Sweden to Norway.)
As you certainly know, Rönnoug's first husband Hans
Andersson died in 1762, and in 1764 she remarried one
Hans Nilsson Stark, a widower and ex-seviceman (in the
Swedish navy - the name Stark, meaning strong, was
handed to him when he enlisted).
Which of the two Hanses is your ancestor?