Smedbyn / Smedby / Smedjebön / Smedjebyn is the name of a small farm near the Rölanda Church in the northern Swedish County of Västra Götaland within the Parish of Rölanda, about 10 kilometers from the Norwegian border.
A branch of our Swedish maternal ancestors lived at the Smedbyn farm at Rölanda in the period around 1700, and likely much earlier. Documents are available that prove their occupation of Smedbyn in that period.
The English translation for Smedbyn is ‘Blacksmiths village’ so we can speculate the family may have been Blacksmiths.
The names of the residents of Smedbyn farm in Rölanda parish that are related to us are …
Click here for more details of the church and graves of the ancestors in Rölanda
Anders Andersson (b1783) our GGG Grandfather, left Smedbyn before 1813 and traveled to Gullholmen, a very small island on the west coast of Sweden to marry and raise his family.
