Clemet Mattsson (abt. 1600 - 1652)

Descendants

Died Feb 1652 at about age 52 in Norlund, Fellingsbro, Västmanland, Sweden

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Biography

There are birth records for Clemet's son Anders (1646) and daughter Elin (1648); they are both born in Oppeby. The taxation records for these years confirm that this is Clemet Mattsson.^[1][2] 1646 is the first year he is noted in Oppeby. He is still there in 1651^[3] - the taxation record for 1652 is not digitized.

Clemet Mattsson in Norlund died in February 1652. ^[4] His eldest son, Olof Clemetsson is head of a household in Norlund after Clemet's death. There we can see that Clemet's wife was named Malin.^[5][6]

Research note

Olof Clemetsson in Norlund is among the witnesses for the baptism of Christoffer Clemetsson's daughter Kerstin in 1681.^[7] For Christoffer's later children some of the children of Olof Clemetsson are witnessing. There is also an Anna Clemetsdotter acting as witness for Kerstin. She is married to Lars Persson in Hälla.^[8]

Clemet seems to have arrived in Fellingsbro parish when some of his children were already born - although the older children must have been born before the preserved birth records for Fellingsbro start. But we have so far not found him in the taxation records before 1646.

The name Clemet Mattsson may indicate that he was a Forest Finn. However, at the births of Anders and Elin he is plain Clemet in the books - while there are plenty of fathers "Jacob the Finn", Mickel the Finn" and so on.

Comment - DNA results

Based on the fact that Clemet Mattsson is a direct paternal ancestor to Jan Olof Waltersson, who was previously in haplogroup R-YP1420^[9], and based on the matches in the FTDNA R1a project and other projects, Clemet is most likely a descendant to a group of persons originating in Norway, probably south-eastern Norway.

Updates in 2018 and 2019 : Through the assistance of the co-ordinator in the Project a Norwegian Y-DNA sample has been tested using the Big-Y from ^[10] and found to be similar to the above tested person. Therefore these two persons have the same origin and they are now located in the subclade R-YP6306.^[11] Further updates (March 2019) have revealed that the two Swedish samples now have formed a new subclade, R-Y88276,^[12] which formed about 600 years before present (ybp) and with a common paternal ancestor (TMRCA) 375 ybp.

This now forms excellent confirmation that Anders Christoffersson and Olof Christoffersson, resp. are brothers and sons to Christoffer Clemetsson.

Persons with similar Y-DNA profiles have been mainly found in Norway and British Isles, indicating a Norse/Viking origin. At some stage ancestors to Clemet went west to Shetland Islands, Scotland, and east to Sweden, incl. Fellingsbro.

However, too few persons have tested their DNA and with similar outcome and also too few with the specific result have tested in more detail to define specific mutations closer to the 1600's to find exact migration patterns.

Sources

1. ↑ Mantalslängder 1642-1820, Örebro län, SE/RA/55203/55203.19/5 (1646), bildid: A0003127_00099 SVAR (subscription no longer needed)
2. ↑ Mantalslängder 1642-1820, Örebro län, SE/RA/55203/55203.19/7 (1648), bildid: A0003129_00070 SVAR (subscription no longer needed)
3. ↑ Mantalslängder 1642-1820, Örebro län, SE/RA/55203/55203.19/10 (1651), bildid: A0003132_00079 SVAR
4. ↑ Fellingsbro C:1 (1641-1708) Bild 1190 / sid 224, left side (AID: v53029a.b1190.s224, NAD: SE/ULA/10244)
5. ↑ Fellingsbro AI:1 (1654-1659) Bild 32 / sid 53 (AID: v51072.b32.s53, NAD: SE/ULA/10244)
6. ↑ Fellingsbro AI:3c (1684-1692) Bild 22 / sid 17 (AID: v51076.b22.s17, NAD: SE/ULA/10244)
7. ↑ Fellingsbro C:1 (1641-1708) Bild 430 / sid 72, bottom right (AID: v53029a.b430.s72, NAD: SE/ULA/10244)
8. ↑ Fellingsbro AI:2 (1675-1684) Bild 75 / sid 135 (AID: v51073.b75.s135, NAD: SE/ULA/10244)
9. ↑ https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-YP1420/
10. ↑ https://www.familytreedna.com/products/y-dna
11. ↑ https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-YP6306/
12. ↑ https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-Y88276/

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