Person:Katarina Torsdotter Beeth (2)

Selbing gives C. Toresdotter.

Of course it's possible Anders had more than one wife, but there are no tell-tale gaps in the sequence of children, quite the opposite. Actually, if all you knew about human biology was contained in these 17th-century Kristina records, you might well conclude that Anders reproduced by asexual cell division. The word "wife" doesn't even appear in the birth records.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Selbing Genealogy Site, by Anders Selbing 10 Jan 1999, Url: http://hem.passagen.se/asb/geneal2.htm.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Sune Fälth Genealogy Site, Url: http://web.telia.com/~u11314904/htmlmis/pd895eef4.html.
3. ↑ Kristina Jönköping Deaths 1698-1801, Volume: F:1, Genline 1153.37
   page 141, 16 May 1721, Anders Erickson Ruda's widow, GID 1153.37.56300.
4. ↑ "N 15 d 16 dito [Maj] och fominadu Schlig Ger Rådestmann Anders Erickson Ruda änka"
   
   NOTE this original record gives more precise place and date of death than the other sources, but it does not identify the decedent beyond describing her as Anders' widow.