When Michael Olofsson Barckman was born about 8 February 1704, in Jönköping, Jönköping, Sweden, his father, Olof Barkman, was 42 and his mother, Maria Andersdotter, was 32. He married Maria Elisabet Öhrström in 1732, in Lund, Malmöhus, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 28 December 1760, in Bolmsö, Jönköping, Sweden, at the age of 56.