Link to Roots in Narke - Helling

From the innkeeper family three boys
had left the family when they lived at
Storbjörboda. Lars and Erik moved to
Stockholm and Peter went to school
in Örebro. Six of the children went
with their parents to Ingvaldstorp
where Jan Larsson was born in the
family farm.
The first child to leave Ingvaldstorp
was their daughter Christina at the
age of 24. She became a maid at
Mullersätter and there noticed by
the county sheriff in the village
next dorr where he and Christina´s
uncle Jonas Larsson was living.
The county sheriff had a son Erik Johan
Wikander who was a law clerk in
Örebro. Christina got a new job as
maid in his household 1845. He lived
in a white manor house Manilla in the
harbour, not so far from the castle. He
later became the mayor of Örebro and
stayed in this position untill retirement
in 1896.
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