GRAM, TORKEL [SSNE 7302]
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It is unknown when and where Torcuil was born. He was the son of the "kyrkoherd" in Overgran and Yttergran, Torcuil Graham senior [SSNE 7556] and his wife Anna Norman. Torcuil junior was a student at Uppsala in 1691, matriculating in December that year as a minor. He was ordained as a priest in Uppsala on 16 December 1705 and served as house preacher for countess Christina Douglas. In 1707 he was house preacher for the widow of Edvard Ehrensteen, Catharina Wallenstedt. Torcuil junior then served as battallion preacher with Colonel Hamilton's regiment and then in the Dalregiment. From 1710 he was the "nadars"priest at Jakob and Johannes church, and from 1711 Torcuil became "komminister" three. He was married to Catharina Margareta Lithovius in her first marriage, although it is not known when and where. He had two daughters.
Torkel Gram died on 28 August 1714.
Sources: G. Hellström, Stockholms Stads Herdaminne, (Stockholm, 1951), p.233; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.119.
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- SWEDEN, UPPSALA
- Arrived 1691-12-30
- Departed 1704-12-31
- Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC