Jöns Jonsson Modig

  Research Notes:

Name: The Lekvattnet parish records tend to record the patronomyic as Jånsson. It seems to me that that would not be correct - a given name of "Jån" would not be common in Sweden, but some researchers (from Sweden American Genealogy group on Facebook) have indicated that "Jån" is a spelling varation of Jon or Jöns Johan. The added Swedish vowels are meant to distinguish the pronounciation of word, and thus it seems to me that the spelling of Jånsson would not be accurate. As I stated, the most common patronomyic for a given name of "Jon or Jönsson" should be "Jonsson or Jönsson".

But Jöns father is recorded as "Johan Persson" and so to me it seems that the correct patronomyic should be "Johansson".

It seems that "Jöns" took the name of Jöns Jönsson or Jansson Modig. The US Swedish Lutheran Church records for Stockholm Lutheran Church record is a bit uncertain. The patronomyic name seems to be Jansson, the handwriting is not clear. Some of his descendants used the surname, Modig or Moody in the US.

2. findagrave, id 123157181. It is on this page that contributor KayMBN has made comments regarding the use of Modig / Moody surnames and lists other siblings of Jöns.

Jöns J Modig and Britta had 7 children. Britta died in 1868. Jöns J Modig then married a second time to Britta's sister, Helga Eriksdotter (b 1843) and they had 5 children - see Britta and Helga's mother's page for more detail (Katrina Andersdotter b 1806),
Jön J Modig's descendants are then direct-line cousins

Skåne Sweden to Minnesota .... Moody families ..... by Kay Breding Netz, © 1990
[I have recorded a link to the FamilySearch scan in my document, "Appendix", number 32; since the url is 7 lines long]
- I think that findagrave contributer, KayMBN, is Kay Breding Netz


3. Census Records


1870 US Census, Stockholm Twp, Wright Co, MN; page 13 & 14
J ... Modig, age 35 b in Swe, farmer, then next page
John, age 14
Anna, age 13
Christine, age 11
Emil, age 9
August, age 7
John, age 5, b in Swe
William, age 3, b in MN
then, Erik [?] Erickson, age 64 b in Swe
Catherin [?] Erickson, age 64 b in Swe



4. Land BLO glo records

Land, Stockholm Twp, Wright Co, MN. E½ofNW¼ of Sec 14, Twp 118N, Range 28W
80 acres homestead; patent issued; 1 Oct 1874

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Emigration, 1867: Leaving for North America, 1867, 12 Sep 1867, Lekvattnet, Värmland län, Sweden. ⁹²¹²

Jöns married Britta Eriksdotter, daughter of Erik Eriksson and Katarina Andersdotter, on 16 Dec 1855 in Lekvattnet, Värmland län, Sweden.⁹²¹⁰ (Britta Eriksdotter was born on 1 Dec 1834 in Östmark, Värmland län, Sweden,⁹²¹⁰ died on 29 Oct 1868 in Stockholm Twp, Wright Co, Minnesota, United States ⁹²¹³ and was buried in Stockholm Lutheran Church Cemetery, Wright Co, Minnestoa, United States.)

Jöns next married Helga Eriksdotter, daughter of Erik Eriksson and Katarina Andersdotter, on 16 Feb 1873 in Stockholm Twp, Wright Co, Minnesota, United States.⁹²¹¹ (Helga Eriksdotter was born on 8 Jan 1843 in Östmark, Värmland län, Sweden,⁹¹⁵⁹ died on 23 Jan 1916 in Stockholm Twp, Wright Co, Minnesota, United States ⁹²¹⁴ and was buried in Stockholm Lutheran Church Cemetery, Wright Co, Minnestoa, United States.)