The first known owner of this house is from 1820 is and he’s the sailor and later fisherman Matts Wikaeus (1779-1833). The farm was in the Wikaeus family until 1878, when the blacksmith Anders Gustaf Asplund from Oravais bought the house at auction. The blacksmith’s widow Maria Helena, born Thomasfolk from the nearby village of Tjöck, owned the house until 1931 when it was passed on by inheritance to the blacksmith’s grandchildren, the Schütten siblings. Henceforth it is called the Schütten house.
One of the siblings, Eva Ekblom, bought the farm in 1938 but did not live here herself but rented out the house. Ines Sjöblom lived in the house as a child and she has contributed stories and also made drawings of the interior and the farm as it looked then. The carpenter Sigfrid Ekman and his wife Margit became the owners in 1953, and in 2002 Tom Österholm and Kristina Sjöblom bought the house from Margit Ekman’s estate.
It turned out that Tom’s relatives had owned the house in the 19th century. Matts Wikaeus is Tom’s grandmother’s grandfather’s brother. His granddaughter Selma Vilhelmina married the sailor Erik Edvard Brännlund (Klemets), who is Tom’s great-grandfather’s brother.
