of Skallsjö ( today a parish in Lerum), 30 kilometers east of Göteborg. This has made
genealogical research a lot easier since parish registers, inventory of estates and all other
archives are accessible at Landsarkivet in Göteborg. The current spelling of the homestead
Trulsås has had many variants during the years. Trulsåhs seems to be the original spelling
according to some information from the years 1646, 1689 and 1740. Some of the other
variants are Trullsåhs, Trullsås and Trollsås.
During the 18th and 19th centuries Skallsjö was completely dominated
by the large estates
Nääs, Floda/Högsboholm, and to
some extent Öijared. Some hundred crofter's holdings
belonged to these country estates. A few crofters owned their house,
but were not allowed
to own the land they had cultivated. The crofters had to work by the
day for the land owner
or pay a lease, which some of them did. Most of the Trulsås family
at the time were born in
crofter's holdings and remained crofters.
During the last half of the 19th century there was a religious revival
all over Sweden and not
least in Västergötland and the parish of Skallsjö. The
Revival meant a great deal to the
Trulsås family.
Trulsås, which is the highest situated place in Skallsjö,
can only be reached by foot today.
The only remains at Trulsås today is some parts of the hearth
stones, ruins of an outhouse
and some dwarfed apple trees. No one has cultivated anything up there
since 1909 and
where once was fields now is nothing but woods. On a big rock
by the ruins at Trulsås the
Trulsås Family Society has attached a memorial plate.
Sources:
" 200 år av min historia...",
unpublished paper 1993, Åsa Broman.
Conversation with Lars Hagström,
Bocksmossen, Floda