{2} Adamson=Rangarnö-Kysta-Västernäs, Väddö [Stockholm, Sweden] Lineage
The Adamson lineage traces back from America into the county of Stockholm, Sweden.
Before the late 19th Century, the people in all of rural Scandinavia practiced the custom of using a patronymic to identify the family of the children, i.e., giving the child an additional name based on the first name of the father. To the christian name of the father they added a patronymic suffix consisting of: 1) a possessive marker –s and 2) a father indicator: either a) –son for a male child, or b) –dotter for a female child.
Quite often after a boy became an adult, he would acquire a surname based on his profession with special forms for men in the military and priests, or based on the locality of his farm.
The careful recording of vital events by the clerics of the Lutheran Church, which was supported by the state, has made tracing the Adamson ancestry possible.
