Following lunch, Bengt Allfredsson and Anna Wessen took us to their farm in Gästre which they are restoring, and talked a bit about the history of the area and the battle of Gestrilen which took place in 1210. This battle was to be reenacted on Saturday, 7 August. Their farm is quite old and typical of the area with a two story farm house and several outbuildings, one of them filled with antique automobiles. Mike and Bengt were two birds of a feather with their interests in old cars.
This is an area of fertile farms. We walked a short distance to the adjoining Mallmin Farm where Erika Mathilda had worked as a serving girl and her parents had worked there as well. I don't know whether or not Erika had room and board, but it would have been rather a long walk from Björkebo to Mallmins farm. The farm was not particularly noteworthy with a large farmhouse and outbuildings.
FORSBY:
Bengt and Anna then took us to Forsby where Johanna Mathilda Larsson, Erika Mathilda's mother, was born. She was the daughter of Lars Ersson, a farmer in the area. The interesting thing about Forsby is that it was a mill for grinding flour. This would have made Forsby a place of importance in the area. Their weren't many streams around sufficient to provide water power for a mill. The old mill building has now been converted to a dinner theatre and the studio of a local artist.
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