Zacharias Hackzell
Zacharias Hackzell (March 1, 1751, in Tornio, Lapland, Finland – August 20, 1804, Finland) worked as the chief of police (Swedish: kronolänsman) for the Swedish crown in Tornio, Finland. Childhood. Zacharias was one of the five children born to Anders Mårtensson Hackzell (1705–1757) and Anna Catharina Plantin (1663–1741), of which three were sons (one died at birth) and two were daughters. The father of Zacharias, Anders Hackzell, worked as the chief enforcement officer (Swedish: kronofogde), a cartographer and a mapper (Swedish: lantmätare) for the Swedish crown. Two weeks before his sixth birthday of Zacharias, his father had died on  February 13, 1757. Marriage and career. Zacharias married twice. The first wife of Zacharias, Anna Margareta Grape, died at the age of 29 in 1785. Zacharias later married to Agata Pipping (1766–1833), the daughter of the mayor of Tornio, "Peter Pipping". Zacharias and Agata gave birth to one child - a son -, Olov Gustav Hackzell, in the year 1800 in Övertorneå, Sweden, located by the modern-day border between Sweden and Finland. Following in the footsteps of both his father Anders Hackzell and grandfather Mårten Hackzell, Zacharias too chose to work for the Swedish crown. Zacharias became the chief of police  (Swedish: kronolänsman) for the Swedish crown in Tornio, at the border of the modern-day countries of Sweden and Finland. At the time, Finland was still a part of the Realm of Sweden. Five years after the death of Zacharias in 1809, Finland became an autonomous Grand Duchy of Russia (1809–1917).