St Johan

English translation: St. Johann

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French term or phrase:S:t Johan
English translation:St. Johann
Entered by: Jana Cole

08:46 Jun 5, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Geography / cities in Sweden
French term or phrase: St Johan
This is a place of birth in Sweden. It looks like possibly "St. Johan," but there's no such place in Sweden. It's written next to Malmö. What's written here?

Here's a picture of the handwriting:
http://quikscor.ipage.com/images/malmo.JPG
Jana Cole
United States
Local time: 04:48
St Johann(S:t Johann)
Explanation:
http://records.ancestry.com/anders_mattsson_records.ashx?pid...
it's a parish

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Note added at 31 mins (2014-06-05 09:17:39 GMT)
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http://www.dotoday.se/en/malmo/st-johannes-forsamling-malmo/...

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Note added at 33 mins (2014-06-05 09:19:22 GMT)
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what's written is S:t Johann but it's also as written Sankt (S:t)

http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/sanktjohannes

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Note added at 53 mins (2014-06-05 09:39:36 GMT)
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the church

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Pastorsexpeditionen i Sankt...
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 12:48
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Summary of answers provided
4St Johann(S:t Johann)
Yvonne Gallagher
3Malmö S:t Johan
Evgeny Artemov (X)
3S:t Johannes
DLyons


Discussion entries: 5





  

Answers


11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
St Johan (see question)
Malmö S:t Johan


Explanation:
S:t Johannesgatan, Malmö, Swede

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Note added at 12 mins (2014-06-05 08:58:25 GMT)
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St.John Street

Evgeny Artemov (X)
South Africa
Local time: 13:48
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
St Johan (see question)
S:t Johannes


Explanation:
Maybe an abbreviation.


    https://www.google.ie/search?num=100&lr=&safe=images&as_qdr=all&q="Malmö"+"S%3At+Johannes"
DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 12:48
Native speaker of: English
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
St Johan (see question)
St Johann(S:t Johann)


Explanation:
http://records.ancestry.com/anders_mattsson_records.ashx?pid...
it's a parish

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Note added at 31 mins (2014-06-05 09:17:39 GMT)
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http://www.dotoday.se/en/malmo/st-johannes-forsamling-malmo/...

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Note added at 33 mins (2014-06-05 09:19:22 GMT)
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what's written is S:t Johann but it's also as written Sankt (S:t)

http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/sanktjohannes

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Note added at 53 mins (2014-06-05 09:39:36 GMT)
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the church

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Pastorsexpeditionen i Sankt...

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 12:48
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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