Sotenäs Company 1727-1901

Since 1992, former officers of the defunct Bohuslän Regiment have been conducting voluntary research on the defense of the county in consultation with local history and genealogy researchers with ties to Bohuslän. One of the projects concerns the Sotenäs Company, which in 1727-1901 had Sotenäs and part of Kville härad as its company area. Research in the National Archives, the War Archives and the National Archives in Gothenburg has provided facts from general muster rolls and sighting protocols and other archived sources. At Lantmäteriet in Gävle and the unit in Gothenburg, parcel maps and documents have been studied, photographed or copied. This has facilitated fieldwork with studies and measurements as far as possible at the site of the officers' residences and the soldiers' crofts. The photographs illustrate both past and present reality. Compilation of the activities of serving officers and the lives of soldiers has been going on for several years. The result of research and fieldwork can now be published as "Konglig Bohus Läns Regemente Sotenäs kompani 1727-1901".