Raymetz, Part III

By 1905 the Raymetz family has moved from Texas to Cambridge in Isanti County, Minnesota. Looking into original Minnesota state census document for 1905 can be a little confusing. Firstly the original can be hard to find as they have been indexed as Reymety (by FamilySearch). Secondly due to loss of Elmer name in the original document the following will be wrong. Information about the persons after Walter can be found on the row below. This means that infomation regarding Elmer is present but given to Karen and so on.

The place they choose for the new home is in many ways representative for the way we in Sweden look upon emigration to United States nowadays. Vilhem Moberg with his emigrant novels took his main characters from this area and planted his pictures in the brains of more than one generation. The group leader Per Andersson “Joris-Pelle” from Hassela and some of the group members became models for his books.

Lots of people from Hassela and the surrounding parishes followed this example. The father of Bertha had two married sisters who left Sweden 1869 as a dual family group under their new surnames Ljung (becoming Young) and Brolin (sometimes Broleen). By the time Raymetz arrived only the Young family and the Brolin daughter (married Olson) can be found there. The emigrating Brolincouple themselves are dead and the two sons are “out of sight” meaning they could not be recognized in any register.

At an early stage during the research when the family line was established I got the message below from a contact called JoLeen which by then gave solid proof I was on the right track

I received a call from Elaine (Raymetz) Peterson. She said she found out that her grandmother's maiden name was Brita Stina Sjöndine. Brita Stina (Bertha in America) was married to John Raymetz. She also said that in a family bible the word Franhammer was after Brita Stina's name. They think it might be her birth place in Sweden.

The minor corrections to this are that Franshammar is the birthplace of her father Mats. He moved to Mörtsjön by the time he got married and that's where Brita Stina was born (map here). At least that's what the church record says.

All descendants from John and Bertha seem to remain in the twin cities area for about 50 years. If you are one of them I'll be happy to answer any question I can. Use contact info or comment field.