Listed as a "Torpare" (crofter) on the birth record of his son, Per, 20 Nov 1815.
NOTES ON SOURCE: Information available comes from the parish birth record of his son, Anders PERSSON. In it, Per's occupation is listed as a hemmansåbo which appears to mean that he was a homesteader or freeman who owned his own land near the village of Arkelstorp, north of Kristianstad, in Skåne, Sweden.