14 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINN&US 



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Benge Tngemarson, peasant in the parish of Hwitaryd, had a son, 



(Ingemar Bengtson, born 1633, farmer of the manor of Erickstad ; 



j he married 



\ Ingrid Ingemarsdotter, sister of Suen Tiliander, pastor of Pietteryd . 

 They had a son, 



(Nicholas (Nils) Linnceus, born 1674, rector of Stenbrohult ; he 



\ married 



( Christina Brodersonia, daughter of his predecessor in office. 

 They had two sons and three daughters 



Carl Linncsus, born 1707, married Sarah Elizabeth Moraea ; had 

 two sons (both died childless) and four daughters. 



Anna Maria, born 1710, married Gabriel Hok, rector of Wirestad. 



Sophia Juliana, born 17 14, married Johan Collins, rector of Kysby. 



Samuel, born 1718, married the daughter of the prebendary of 

 Markaryd ; had several daughters, no sons. 



Emerentia, married Branting, receiver of the land-tax in the Hun- 

 dred of Sunnerbo. 



No heir male of the three families. The arms of 

 Von Linne were broken on the tomb of Carl von Linne, 

 son of the great Carl Linnaeus, ennobled as Von Linne. 1 



Nils Linnseus afterwards became rector of Stenbro- 

 hult. His father-in-law, Samuel Petri Broderson, rector 

 of Stenbrohult, died December 30, 1707, of a fall by 

 which his clavicle was broken. The vicar of Wexio 

 succeeded Samuel Broderson, but, dying in the same 

 year, Nils Linnasus succeeded him in the living of 

 Stenbrohult. 



The family tree is the linden of Linnhult. 



Thus Linnseus was, in fact, rooted in R&shult ; it was 

 more than an ordinary birthplace. The linden tree 



1 How often we see in cases of great hereditary abilitj r the line 

 dies out after the most talented member of it has brought it into 

 special prominence. 



