Notes for: Joseph Herman Bodine
From: Ingrid Bjorkudd [bjorkskog at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022
Subject: Erboga
Hi David
At your website you wrote Josef Herman born in Erboga but the city name is Arboga
located in landscape of Västmanland.
Regards from
Ingrid Björkudd in Sweden
From: Ingrid Bjorkudd
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022
Subject: Re: Erboga
Hello.
...
Josef Herman Bodin born in city of Arboga 1889 and emigrated from Sweden to Minnepolis in August 23 1907, and he was travel
alone. The surname is what we say her in Sweden a soldier name. It means the first person who had this surname in the family was
a soldier and in Josef Hermans family it was Josef Hermans grandfather.
Regards from
Ingrid
From: Ingrid Bjorkudd
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Subject: Re: Erboga
Hi.
In this case the surname Bodin was given to an ancestor when he was to become a soldier, his birth surname was Olofsson which is a common surname and to distinguish between the people he was given the name Bodin. What the name means is hard to say exactly.
Ingrid
From: Ingrid Bjorkudd
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Subject: Re: Erboga
Hi
I have not researched so deeply into what the Boden name means. There are many places that start with Bod for example the city of Boden. There are many Swedish words that contain bod. I think your guess of meaning is right.
Regards
Ingrid
I looked it up and Bodin might come from Boden which in Scandinavian and Old French means "shelter" or maybe even "one who brings news." A Scandinavian friend of mine said the word "Bod" by itself is like "shelter." And with the ending Bod-en, it is like "the shelter." He thinks "Bud" by itself might be "one who brings news" and the Bud-en ending would add some minor aspect of meaning to it. See this link:
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Boden
From Ronny Bodine:
On 5 Jan 1917, Joseph Herman Bodine registered for the World War 1 draft in Chicago, Illinois. He reported he was born 9 Jan 1889 in Erboga, Sweden, worked as a painter and was married with one child. In April 1930, Joseph and Anna Bodine, with their daughter Ruth, lived in Chicago where Joseph worked as a painter. He reported he immigrated from Sweden in 1920, but as his daughter was born in Illinois and he registered for the WW1 draft in 1917, his memory was somewhat off the mark. In 1942, he registered for the World War II draft in Chicago. He reported being employed by Palm & Palm Decorators and that Mrs. Anna Bodine (his wife), was his next of kin.
From Illinois Death Records: Joseph Herman Bodine, son of Henrick Bodine and Matilda Johanson, husband of Anna, born 1890, died 30 July 1945 in Chicago.