Catherine Lom
1628 - Bef 1674 (45 years)-
Name Catherine Lom Birth 1628 Roslagen, Lanna, Uppland, Sweden 
[1] Gender Female Emigration 3 May 1641 Sweden Immigration 7 Nov 1641 New Sweden aboard the Charitas Death Bef 1674 [1, 2, 3] Burial Gloria Dei Episcopal Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania [1] Person ID I5719 Hedges Last Modified 5 Jun 2025
Father Mans Svensson Lom, b. Oct 1580, Uppsala kommun, Uppsala lan, Sweden d. 27 Jul 1653, New Sweden (Age 72 years) Mother Anna Margaret Petersdotter Stille, b. 1607, Sweden d. 1703, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (Age 96 years) Marriage 17 Feb 1618 Gunnarskog, Varmland, Sweden [1] Family ID F2484 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family John Wheeler, b. 1632 d. 1677 (Age 45 years) Family ID F2497 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Jun 2025
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Emigration - 3 May 1641 - Sweden 
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Notes - Accompanying the Stille family to American in 1641 was the family of Mans Svensson Lom, whose daughter Catharine Lom married an Englishman named John Wheeler. Wheeler became a freeman in New Sweden and joined 21 other freemen in signing a 1653 protest against Governor Printz' allegedly harsh rule. He fled New Sweden, moving first to the Fort Casimir area (present New Castle). By 1658 he had moved to the Sassafras River in Cecil County, Maryland, with his wife Catharine and three minor children, Samuel, John and Anna. A third son, Anders, was born in Maryland. When granted denization by Maryland in 1661, John Wheeler was described as "Swedish." His wife died by 1671. John died c.1677, leaving his "Round-stone" estate on the Elk River to his son Samuel and and his "Wheeler's Point" estate on the Sassafras to his son Joh. Samuel Wheeler remained in Maryland where he was survived by thee married daughters.
The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware. By Peter Stebbins Craig.
[2] - Catharine Lom, born in Roslagen c. 1628, married John Wheeler, an Englishman, who lived in the New Sweden colony. After the 1653 protest to Printz, they moved to Swanwyck, near the Dutch Fort Casimir (New Castle), and by 1658 had moved to the Sassafras River in Cecil County, Maryland. Catharine died before 1674 when John Wheeler's second wife Mary renounced any interest in his property. Catharine had four known children:
Samuel Wheeler, born c. 1650, who remained in Cecil County on his father's "Roundstone" plantation; never married.
John Wheeler, born c. 1654, sold his father's 'Wheelers Point' plantation in Cecil County to his brother-in-law Nicholas Allum in 1677, intending to move to land acquired by his "grandfather" Lars Andersson in Blockley Township, Philadelphia County. However, he returned to Cecil County to live at "Roundstone," married Elizabeth and died in 1698, survived by 3 daughters.
Anna Wheeler, born c. 1656, married Nicholas Allum; I daughter.
Anders Wheeler, born c. 1660, moved as a young man to the Blockley Township land acquired by Lars Andersson. After inheriting part of Moyamensing from Andersson, he sold the Blockley Township lands to his cousins, the Gertsson brothers. Married Catharine Andersdotter Svensson and Anna Maria Georgen (Urian), 7 children.
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- Accompanying the Stille family to American in 1641 was the family of Mans Svensson Lom, whose daughter Catharine Lom married an Englishman named John Wheeler. Wheeler became a freeman in New Sweden and joined 21 other freemen in signing a 1653 protest against Governor Printz' allegedly harsh rule. He fled New Sweden, moving first to the Fort Casimir area (present New Castle). By 1658 he had moved to the Sassafras River in Cecil County, Maryland, with his wife Catharine and three minor children, Samuel, John and Anna. A third son, Anders, was born in Maryland. When granted denization by Maryland in 1661, John Wheeler was described as "Swedish." His wife died by 1671. John died c.1677, leaving his "Round-stone" estate on the Elk River to his son Samuel and and his "Wheeler's Point" estate on the Sassafras to his son Joh. Samuel Wheeler remained in Maryland where he was survived by thee married daughters.
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Sources - [S6] Find a Grave.
- [S116] Peter Stebbins Craig, The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware, page 46, Library of Linda Hedges.
- [S132] Peter Stebbins Craig, Mans Svensson Lom, Forgotten Forefather, and his Seven Daughters, https://web.archive.org/web/20110604051721/http://www.colonialswedes.org/Forefathers/Lom.html.
- [S6] Find a Grave.