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Barkman and Bergh both took up residence in the area, with Barkman in the old governor's house and Bergh in property 354. Bergh married his cousin Henriette Kockum on December 10, 1820, who was born on April 21, 1798, and was the daughter of the tanner Christian Petter Kockum and Johanna Cecilia Bergh. Pehr Gustav Barkman also mar- ried on July 20, 1823, to Catharina Christina Moller, who was born
on January 10, 1797 and was the daughter of the Superintendent Aile Johan Moller and Maria Helena Bergh. Christian Bergh was the first to become a trader and merchant on May 29, 1841, with Barkman as his guarantor. The property that had been separated from number 353 in 1801 and used for the sugar factory Patrioten, known as the "Swan" - the former Jacob Michelsen gable house - along with the adjacent lane, was reacquired by Barkman and Bergh in 1844 and reincorporated into the old property number 353.
The old house along with properties numbered 346-351 had been ow- ned at various times by the joint sugar refineries Patrioten and Svanen, from March 30, 1826 by the sugar factory corporation Patrioten, au- thorized by the Kommerskollegii with a permit on May 8 of that year, which obtained auction on April 10, May 8, and June 5, and a final deed on December 23 of that year. Then from July 6, 1832 by the manager Johan Daniel Ruhe, who obtained permission from the Kommerskol- legii to continue the factory operations on August 14 of that year and obtained auction on August 6, September 3, and October 1, 1832 and
a final deed on March 23, 1833. From April 1, 1838 by the chamberlain and major Count Nils Anton Barck, who, after Ruhe's death on April 16, 1836, had rented the factory from his niece Bengta Sophia Kockum and obtained auction on April 23, May 21, and June 18 and a final deed on December 24 of that year, all in 1838. Finally, from August 13, 1842, after Count Barck had to close down operations, by the Danish subject, sugar refiner Carl August Hedemann-Gade, who obtained permission from the King on February 3, 1843 to possess the properties and per- mission from the Kommerskollegii on March 3, 1843 to continue sugar production and obtained auction on April 3, May 1 and 29 and a final deed on October 2 of that year. After Hedemann-Gade also had to close down the loss-making sugar operations, he sold the property on June 20, 1844 for a price of 4,000 riksdaler to the merchants P. G. Barkman and Chr. Bergh, "the stone building in which the sugar factory, known as Svanen, had previously been operated and which had previously belonged to the aforementioned gentlemen's current estate and lot under numbers 352, 353, and 354 in this city, which is included in the estate registry."
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