Åkenus Helm (1677 - 1763)

Born 1677 in Gloucester County, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine Rambo — married 1708 in Gloucester,New Jersey

Husband of Elizabeth (Dalbo) Helm — married 27 Dec 1728 in Swedesboro, Gloucester, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 1763 at about age 86 in Greenwich, Gloucester, New Jersey

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Biography

Åkenus was born in 1673 to Israel Helm and his wife.

"In 1693, Israel Helm's household of five probably included two sons (Hermanus and Åkenus) ..." ^[1].

In 1705 Åkenus married Catherine Rambo ^[2] with whom he had seven known children. ^[3].

Catherine died 20 July 1726.

On 27 December 1728 Åkenus married Elizabeth Dalbo in Trinity Episcopal Church in Swedesboro, New Jersey. ^[4] They had four known children.^[3]

Åke is mentioned in a book by Pehr Kalm who travelled in North America and came to Raccoon in November 1748.^[5]

Aoke Helm was one of the most considerable Swedes in this place, and his father came over into this country along with the Swedish governor Prince; he was upwards of seventy years of age.

Most accounts ^[3] say that Åkenus died about 1750. There is, however, a record ^[6] of the burial of Ake Helm on 21 March 1763 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Swedesboro.

Sources

1. ↑ Craig, Peter S. "The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Family Histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey & Cecil County, Md. 1638-1693." in Studies in Swedish American Genealogy (1993): n.p. link. p. 71.
2. ↑ West, Edmund, comp. "Family Data Collection - Marriages", Ancestry.com Operations Inc. 2001, Provo, UT, USA
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Craig, Peter S. "Descendants of Israel Åkesson Helm", 9 March 1995, Washington, D. C.. Included in a letter from Peter Craig, dated 19 Nov 1996, and described as "I enclose a write-up of the Helm family, which I prepared last year in an effort to straighten others out on the proved descendants of Israel Helm. All of the facts in this enclosure have been verified against original records."
4. ↑ Ancestry.com. "Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985", (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.) Original: Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Collection Name: Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 778. [1]
5. ↑ Book; Travels into North America by Pehr Kalm, page 366.
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. "Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985", (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.) Original: Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Collection Name: Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 779. [2]