Wedebrand (Wederbrand) was a soldiers name.
The military system in Sweden during the 1800th -1900th century was organized
in such a way that each "rote" (a minior part of a parish) hade to keep a soldier.
In this "rote" they kept a soldier and four miltary riders. They were
Livgrenadjärer (soldiers on horse). They belonged to Överste Löjtnantens Company.

The farmers had to support him with food, land and a house.
The soldiers often had common names as Andersson, Svensson and Jonsson. When the company got together there were too many soldiers with the same surname. The solution was to give them new names to separate one soldier
from another. They got name as Granat, Rask, Palm etc.or names associated to the name of the place where they lived. Like Wedhem. Wedebrand was such a name. The children of soldiers sometimes used the soldiername sometimes not. When the soldier resign from his duty he sometimes kept the name sometimes not. He had to move out from the house to give place to the next soldier.
The new soldier moved in and sometimes was given the previos soldiers name. In Vedemo rote there was another 4 soldiers

As far as we know there are five soldiers given the name Wedebrand all in Vinnerstad parish. They were:

 

Name                           Lived             Soldier              Soldier          Company           Rote                                                           between             No
Sven Jönsson Wedebrand	1684 - ?	1707 - 1739	103	Öv Löjtn	Vedemo
Sven Larsson Wedebrand	1718 - 1790	1740 - 1775	103	Öv Löjtn	Vedemo
Pär Larsson Wedebrand	1698 - 1742	? - 1721	24	Motala	Torfsäter
		1721 - >1743	27	Motala	Vedemo
Lars Persson Wedebrand	1725 - 1759	1748 - 1759	27	Motala	Vedemo
Lars Wedebrand	1742 -1807	1766 - ?	24	Motala	Vedemo

 
They were likely not all related. Maybe some.

• At the time we have no more information about the anchestors of Pär Larsson Wedebrand maybe Lars Persson Wedebrand is a son of him.
• As far as we know Lars Wedebrand had no living children when he died.
• Lars Persson Wedebrand had at least two children Anna and Per Rånman (soldiers name).
• Sven Jönsson Wedebrand had three) children Daniel, Jöns and Abraham. Some of the living Wedebrand could be related to one of those. More research are required.

 
The children of Sven Larsson Wedebrand have kept the surename. Allthought the spelling of the name sometimes have been changed among the 8-10 following generations (Wedebrand, Wederbrand, Wedebrant, Vedebrand, Vederbrand) The descendants of most of the children to Sven Larsson Wedebrand are documented.

More swedish soldiers

Within the coming generations there are more soldiers:  
 

Name                           Lived             Soldier           Soldier             Company        Rote                 Parish                                                           between             No
Otto Wedebrand-Palm	1855 - 1890	1872 - 1890	792	Kållands	Silleberg	Rackeby
August Wilhelm Wedebrand-Hög,	1865 - 1931	1886 - 1920	800	Kållands	Strötorp	Strö
Malakias Wedebrand-Grönqvist	1852 - 1930	1874 - 1906	812	Kållands	Led	Gösslunda
Jonas Larsson-Rask	1818 - 1846	1841 - 1846	814	Kållands	Finneboda	Gösslunda
Anders Johansson-Wederbrand	1823 - 1874	1847 - 1874	814	Kållands	Finneboda	Gösslunda
Clas Johan Wedebrand-Säfström	1847 - 1912	1867 - 1884	865	Kållands	Sävare	Sävare
Claes Wedebrand-Spjut	1788 - 1846			Kållands		Strö

 

Soldiers in USA

 
Searching the descendants in USA we find Wedebrand people attending both WWI and WWII.
 

 
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