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Katrin-Jöns Persson 1875 - 1908


Katrin-Jöns Persson is thought to be responsible for the name Mora knife. 

He was born 1839-03-11 in the town of Sollerön, about 15km south of Mora. 

Katrin Jöns Persson, married in Sold (Sollerön) with StikåAnna. His wife Anna lived at Stikågardn, now Frostgardn.

In 1867 Katrin-Jöns Persson moves to Mora. 

His knife-making history began in the 1870s, when Jöns Persson started making his own knives in Östnor, when he founded Kånåsmirjö (wich means Kånå Smedjan or Kånå jorge). wich was Östnor's oldest workshop. He would sell a large array of metal tools from harness hooks, scissors etc and of course the knives. 

He took long trips up north to sell them, as far as Sundsvall in the North, more than 200km away(in today's world they are very short trips but imagine those journeys by horse and sled, in the winter).  It was his clients from those distant towns, that started calling them Mora knifes, a reference where the knives and the seller came from. GambälJerk, a brother of Jöns, also rode around in northern Sweden selling knives. 

Jöns and Anna had four children: Kånå Anders, John, Manne and Jerk. 

In 1908, his sons Erik and Anders Jönsson took over Katrin-Jöns Persson’s smithy. 

Katrin-Jöns Persson dies soon after, 1908-11-17, in Östnor with 69 years old. 

In 1936, Erik Jönsson, Jöns Persson grandson, followed his grandfather into the knife-making business and created E. Jönsson that worked until 2020. 

Katrin-Jöns Persson started a long dynasty of knife making that endured until 12.02.2020 when a fire completely destroyed the E. Jönsson workshop. See the article for more details.

Katrin-Jöns Persson worked in the same workshop building that later was used by E. Jönsson


Above: Jönsson's Knife Factory in 1925. Man (15 years) and his three-year-old Erik Zander from Boden

Katrin Jöns Persson
Farmers, Merchants. Was 69 years old.
Born: 1839-03-11 Sollerön (W)
Resident: to 1867 Beach, Mora (W)
Resident: 1867-10-06 Östnor, Mora (W)
Death: 1908-11-17 Östnor, Mora (W)

Stamp:
JPS 
SMEDJOR i Östnor  - Anders Norén
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