his 3 WIVES and 16 CHILDREN
by EUGENE H. HALVERSON
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Iwish to express my gratitude to Kent Holmes who visited Vora in search of genealogy. He then put me in touch with, Goran Holms, from Vora, Finland. They are like me, the last of the “Kock/Holms. They are grandsons of Johan Johansson (Kock)Holms, the last farmer of Holms. Goran has e-mailed the translated text from Johan Johansson’s Bible and a translated version of the genealogy his wife’s, Uncle Runar Hagberg, had completed of the Kock-Holms family. Goran has also helped me correct dates and places in this story. I would also like to thank, Rolf Ronquist, who lives in Vora and is a renowned genealogist has added more names and dates beyond what my sister, Vivian and I had done in previous years. We thank him for his generosity. Gunnar and Ralf Norrgard, Brita Hagglof has generously shared so many so much genealogy and history. I am very grateful to them.
On the Father's side of the family back in the early 1700's or very late 1690's records show that Erik Jakobsson Bertils and Margareta, last name unknown was the father of Erik Eriksson Bertils who was born May 1729 in Kaitsor, Vasa, Finland. This son married Anna Simonsdotter Kock , born 1744, this is where our Kock name originated. The old story of a farmer or even a “Drang” marrying the Landlord’s daughter. His name now was Simon Carlsson Kock, born July 1718 on Kock at Karvat, Vasa. His wife was Anna Andersdotter, born April 1717.
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