Ancestors of Hilda Katarina Wiippola

Generation No. 1

1. Hilda Katarina Wiippola, born 28 Oct 1891 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; died 21 Jun 1979 in Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan. She was the daughter of 2. Abram Aronsson Wiippola and 3. Kaisa Greeta Junttila. She married (1) Matt Korpi 03 Jul 1915 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. He was born 27 Aug 1884 in , Oulun Laani, , and died 02 Dec 1970 in Negaunee Township, Marquette, Michigan. He was the son of Johannes Korpela and Hilma Tanelintr Waicko.

Notes for Hilda Katarina Wiippola: Married Matt Korpi in 1915 at age 23, and they resided at Fire Center about two miles from the Wiippola home.

More About Hilda Katarina Wiippola: Burial: Ishpeming Cemetary, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan

Notes for Matt Korpi: Matt Korpi's given name at birth was Matti Korpela. The name Korpela means backwoods or wilderness. He grew up in the village of Petajaskoski, which is in the municipality of Oulainen, Province (aka Oulun Laani), Northern Region of Finland. Neighboring municipalities include Pyhajoki and , also in . The name Pyhajoki means Sunday River. This area is in western Finland near the . Matti's brother Joonas and his family lived in Raahe. His nephew Tauno's wife Meimi still lives (2008) in the house where Matti grew up in Petajaskoski, and their son Jouni built a house nearby in Petajaskoski. Matti's grandmother Maria was from the neighboring community of Pyhajoki.

Matti emigrated to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada in 1905. Sudbury had a sizable population of Finnish immigrants and was a mining community. After becoming a naturalized British citizen in Canada in 1912, he immigrated to the USA in the same year. The Canadian immigration record shows Matti entered the USA at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan with his initial destination being Rudyard, Michigan. By 1915 he had relocated to the Ishpeming area. Matti's aunt (his mother's sister) Maria Serafia Waicko had immigrated to the USA in 1900 and married Aate Ollila. Aate and Maria resided at Fire Center Location, north of Ishpeming, which may be the reason Matti located in the same area. He met Hilda Katarina Wiippola of Fire Center and they were married in 1915. In 1918 they bought 80 acres of land from Braastads, where they built their home, farmed, raised their family, and lived the rest of their lives. Matti changed his name to Matt Korpi after immigrating to the USA. His marriage license dated July 2, 1915 still shows his name as Matti Korpela, but his first son, born June 19, 1916, was named Arvid Daniel Korpi.

The paternal ancestry of Matt Korpi is as recorded at the Parish Registry of Oulainen, Finland - date of research January 27, 1982. The maternal ancestry of Matt Korpi is as recorded at the Parish Registry of Oulainen, Finland - date of research February 22, 1982.

Matt died at the Morgan Heights Sanatorium in Negaunee Township, Michigan.

More About Matt Korpi: Burial: Ishpeming Cemetary, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan Immigration: 1905, From Finland to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Naturalization: 26 Apr 1912, As a British subject in Canada

Generation No. 2

2. Abram Aronsson Wiippola, born 11 Dec 1848 in Niemis, Hietaniema Parish, ; died 05 Oct 1926 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. He was the son of 4. Aron Isaksson Viippola and 5. Katarina Isaksdotter Kuoppala. He married 3. Kaisa Greeta Junttila 24 Oct 1893 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. 3. Kaisa Greeta Junttila, born 10 Aug 1863 in Kemi, , Finland; died 06 Apr 1922 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan. She was the daughter of 6. John Junttila and 7.

1 Unknown.

Notes for Abram Aronsson Wiippola: Niemis is a village in Hietaniemi Parish, Sweden, on the west side of the Tornio River in the Tornio Valley. The people in this area are ethnic Finns and speak the . When Sweden lost control of Finland to Russia in 1809, the border between Swedish and Russian territory was drawn down the Tornio River, so the people on the west side of the river were within Sweden, while those on the east side were within Finland.

The Finnish spelling of the last name is Viippola. In this area the people spoke Finnish, and it was only the prominent who spoke Swedish, therefore all the church records and national records for these areas were in Swedish. By tradition, one was called by the father's (or sometimes the mother's) first name. While in Finland Abram Viippola was also used the names Aaron Aapo or sometimes Viippolan Aapo. Aapo is the Finnish word for Abraham.

Parish records in Niemis describe him as "backstugusittare," meaning he lived in or owned a small cabin or cottage, possibly a "crofter's holding", or he may have been a sharecropper. He was born in the southern part of Niemis, but it's not known which part of the village he lived in while he was married with his family there.

He had a wife and family in Niemis. He left his family without official moving papers about 1880/1881. He is recorded in the Hietaniemi Parish Household Examination Book as having left his family and thereafter no one has heard anything about him. He emigrated to the United States about 1881.

Abram immigrated to the US at about age 31 and settled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan about 8 miles north of the city of Ishpeming in the little community of Fire Centre near the Dead River. This area received its name from The Fire Centre Mining Company, which mined igneous rock in the Dead River Range for several years in the early 1800s. Igneous means fire, therefore the name Fire Centre (later changed to Center.) Abram and his wife Kaisa got a 160 acre plot of land under the Homestead Act of 1862, build a house, farmed the land and received a patent of ownership signed by President Theodore Roosevelt March 12, 1906, after "proving up" for five years.

Abram died in Dr. Talso's "Grace Hospital" in Ishpeming, Michigan. According to his son Otto's diary entry of September 28: "Pappa was brought to Dr. Talso's hospital. This was the last time Pappa was taken away from home." Entry of October 5: "Pappa died at 7 a.m. at age 77 - was buried on the 7th." (Diary translated from Finnish to English by Ellen Tippett). His cause of death was listed as "paralysis" as per a paper written by his son Frans Emil.

Quote from an article by Sture Torikka about the Tornio River Valley, on the Swedish side of the Tornio River, across from Tornio, Finland: "I have done some drafts about emigrants from two villages (Niemis and Armasjärvi) in Hietaniemi parish, Norrbotten, Sweden. It's located about 50 km up north the Bothnian Bay, just on the Tornio river shore. The Tornio river is also the borderline between Sweden and Finland. Nearly everybody here is Finnish by origin, but our nationality is Swedish. The language has always been Finnish, and they have been called "Finns" everywhere else in Sweden. The first people from this area who emigrated directly from their valley homes to America, started their trips and Atlantic crossings in the spring of 1865. But there had already been Tornio valley people - both from the Swedish borderside and the Finnish too - who had gone from North Norway already in 1864. Unfortunately these emigrants are not always that easy to find in Norwegian records. However; from Norway the rumors about the amazing North America reached the Tornio river valley, and then the valley inhabitants were ready to leave all their historical family security and go to America themselves."

More About Abram Aronsson Wiippola: Also Known As: Abraham Wiippola Burial: 07 Oct 1926 Immigration: Abt. 1881, To United States

Notes for Kaisa Greeta Junttila: Kemi is a town in the province of Lapland, Finland. It is situated very close to the town of Tornio. Kaisa was born in Kemi and immigrated to the United States Jun1, 1887 at age 24, seven years after Abram Wiippola.

2 The cause of her death at age 58 was tuberculosis. The entry in her son Otto's diary for March 26, 1922 says: Went to Aate's and Eli's for the last time while mother was still alive. Mother's last words were "Lord Jesus, lift me up high."

More About Kaisa Greeta Junttila: Immigration: 01 Jun 1887, To the USA

Children of Abram Wiippola and Kaisa Junttila are: 1 i. Hilda Katarina Wiippola, born 28 Oct 1891 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; died 21 Jun 1979 in Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; married Matt Korpi 03 Jul 1915 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. ii. Otto Abraham Wiippola, born 05 Jan 1893 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; died 07 Feb 1958 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan.

Notes for Otto Abraham Wiippola: His name is shown as Otto Abram Wiippola in the 1927 Probate Court Record after his father's death. He was known as Aapo, which is the Finnish translation of Abraham. Otto remained single. He lived his life in the Wiipola family home in Fire Center.

More About Otto Abraham Wiippola: Burial: Ishpeming Cemetery, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan Known as: Aapo, which is Finnish for Abraham

iii. Frans Emil Wiippola, born 01 Sep 1896 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; died 11 Jan 1980 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan.

Notes for Frans Emil Wiippola: Remained single. Lived his life at the Wiippola family home in Fire Center. Emil lived there alone after Otto's death in 1958 until he died in 1980. His address was P.O. Box 85, Ishpeming, Michigan.

More About Frans Emil Wiippola: Burial: Ishpeming Cemetery, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan Known as: Emil

iv. Nels Jacob Wiippola, born 1901; died 1902.

Notes for Nels Jacob Wiippola: Died at 1 1/2 years old.

v. Nels Arvid Wiippola, born 14 Jun 1904 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; died 15 Jan 1975 in Newberry, Luce, Michigan.

Notes for Nels Arvid Wiippola: His name is shown as Niilo Arvid Wiippola in the Probate Court Record of 1927 after his father's death. Nels remained single. He lost his mother at age 18, fell into bad company, and began to use alcohol. He eventually got into trouble several times with the law. Without receiving a trial he was declared to be mentally incompetant and was committed to a mental instituion in Ionia, Michigan and was later move to the mental hospital in Newberry, Michigan where he died in 1974.

More About Nels Arvid Wiippola: Burial: Ishpeming Cemetery, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan

Generation No. 3

4. Aron Isaksson Viippola, born 1803; died 1865. He was the son of 8. Isak Karlsson Ylinenjarvi and 9. Eva Nilsdotter Yli-Viippola. He married 5. Katarina Isaksdotter Kuoppala. 5. Katarina Isaksdotter Kuoppala

Notes for Aron Isaksson Viippola: Aron Isaksson Viippola was born on the Yliviippola farm. He moved to Niemis on the Swedish side of the border in 1825.

3 Notes for Katarina Isaksdotter Kuoppala: Katarina (Karin) Isaksdotter Kuoppala

Child of Aron Viippola and Katarina Kuoppala is: 2 i. Abram Aronsson Wiippola, born 11 Dec 1848 in Niemis, Hietaniema Parish, Sweden; died 05 Oct 1926 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan; married (1) Kaisa Lisa Stinasdotter Makslahti 23 Jun 1872; married (2) Kaisa Greeta Junttila 24 Oct 1893 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan.

6. John Junttila He married 7. Unknown. 7. Unknown

Child of John Junttila and Unknown is: 3 i. Kaisa Greeta Junttila, born 10 Aug 1863 in Kemi, Lapland, Finland; died 06 Apr 1922 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; married Abram Aronsson Wiippola 24 Oct 1893 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan.

Generation No. 4

8. Isak Karlsson Ylinenjarvi, born 1777; died Abt. 1834. He married 9. Eva Nilsdotter Yli-Viippola. 9. Eva Nilsdotter Yli-Viippola, born 1783; died Abt. 1833. She was the daughter of 18. Nils Joransson Viippoila and 19. Ablona Olofsdotter.

Notes for Isak Karlsson Ylinenjarvi: In 1803, the year he was married to the farmer's daughter Eva, Isak Darlsson was residing in the village of Tengelio, Lapland, Finland on the east side of the Tornio River . This was beneath the Aavasaksa Mountain. Isak moved to the Viippola farm in 1803 and became the new farmer-in-law. A record of 1819 shows his name as Isac Carlsson Wippola. In the tax lists of 1810 and 1815 he is mentioned as "farmhand".

Prior to the 1880's,most people in western and northwestern Finland did not have permanent family names or surnames (like we use them today). Actually, families were not required, by law, to chose a permanent family name until the 1920 surname law. Although, by this time, many families had already chosen a permanent surname. The important thing to understand in finnish genealogy is that it was the places (farms) that had names (and not the people themselves). People were associated with the name of the farm that they were currently living on. Remember it is not accurate to call this a surname, or family name. It is usually referred to as simply a farm name. That's why people are often listed with 2 or more last names in a virkatodistus or similar documents, according to the main farms they lived on during their lives. The most common ending for farm names is "la". When a son inherited the farm, he and his family were called by that name. When a daughter inherited the farm and married, the son-in-law who moved to the farm would take that name. The practice of adopting the name of the farm died out in the late 1800s.

Isak was originally from Ylinenjarvi village in the large forests on the Swedish side of the Tornio River, northwest of Matarengi church village (Overtornea), son of settlers there.

Notes for Eva Nilsdotter Yli-Viippola: "House wife", hostess at No. 1 Yli-Viippola farm at the village of Alkkula, Taroniemi, Finland. Eva took over the No. 1 Yli-Viippola farm after her parents. She may not have had any grown brothers. Eva married in 1803 to the new farmer Isak Karlsson Ylinenjarvi - Yli-Viippola, who became the son-in-law on the Yli-Viippola farm.

The tracing of the lineage of the Yli-Viippola farm in this record doesn't continue past Eva. The tradition of adopting the name of the farm died out in the late 1800's, and the people who presently live on this farm are named Pasula. It is not known whether or not they are related to this Viippola line. This is an opportunity for additional research.

The record going back from here is the maternal line through Eva Yli-Viippola. This is because the parish records actually track the ownership of the farm, and this record is a study of the Wiippola farm. Eva apparently didn't have brothers to take over the farm, so it passed to her. To follow the paternal line, it will be necessary to track the ancestry of her husband Isak Karlsson Ylinenjarvi. We would have to find the records of his father's family, evidently his father was Karl of Ylinenjarvi Village on the Swedish side of the Tornio River. This is

4 another opportunity for further research.

Children of Isak Ylinenjarvi and Eva Yli-Viippola are: 4 i. Aron Isaksson Viippola, born 1803; died 1865; married Katarina Isaksdotter Kuoppala. ii. Appollonia Isaksdotter Viippola, born 1806; died 1833.

Notes for Appollonia Isaksdotter Viippola: Appollonia (Ablona) Isaksdotter Viippola. Unmarried, resided in Ala-Viippola. She was blind and had one illegitimate child, Aron born 1832 and died 1833.

iii. Johannes Viippola, born 1810; died 1812. iv. Maria Viippola, born 1812; died 1819. v. Israel Viippola, born 1819; died 1820. vi. Karl Viippola, born 1821; died 1825. vii. Eva Viippola, born 1822; died 1830. viii. Brita Kristina Isaksdotter Viippola, born 1823; married Henrik Salomonsson Rautila 1848; born 1823.

Notes for Henrik Salomonsson Rautila: Believed to be from the village of Juoksenki, because there was a farm there named Rautila.

Generation No. 5

18. Nils Joransson Viippoila, born 1754; died 1817. He was the son of 36. Joran Joransson Viippoila and 37. Ella Nilsdotter. He married 19. Ablona Olofsdotter. 19. Ablona Olofsdotter

Notes for Nils Joransson Viippoila: Farmer at the No. 1 Yli-Viippoila / Viippoila farm at the village of Alkkula, Taroniemi, Finland. In those days, until 1809, the villages on the east side of the Tornio River belonged to the Hietaniemi parish, which now belongs to Sweden, and where the parish records are found for the times before 1809. After 1809 they had to eatablish a new parish for these villages on the eastern side, so they made Alkkul the new church village and that also became the new name of the parish. But during the 1800's the authorities instead used the name Ylitornio, which was a translation into Finnish from the Swedish name Overtornea.

Nils and Ablona are believed to have had several children, but only Eva is considered in this record.

Child of Nils Viippoila and Ablona Olofsdotter is: 9 i. Eva Nilsdotter Yli-Viippola, born 1783; died Abt. 1833; married Isak Karlsson Ylinenjarvi.

Generation No. 6

36. Joran Joransson Viippoila, born Abt. 1700. He was the son of 72. Joran Persson Viippoila and 73. Anna Mickelsdotter. He married 37. Ella Nilsdotter. 37. Ella Nilsdotter, born 1710; died 1755.

Notes for Joran Joransson Viippoila: Was the same age as Per Joransson.

Joran grew up and took over the Yli-Viippoila farm after his parents and became Joran Joransson Yli-Viippoila. He took over the Yli-Viippoila establishment, just north of the Ala-Viippoila, in 1728 when he married Ella Nilsdotter.

The previous owner of this new establishment on the Viippoila farm was named Olof Olsson Viippa/Viippoila, who evidently did not have any children who grew up to adulthood. He must have been the son of Olof Persson Viippa/Viiippoila, brother of Per Persson, who was Joran Jorasson's paternal granddfather. So Olof Olsson was Joran's father's first cousin.

Children of Joran Viippoila and Ella Nilsdotter are: i. Isak Joransson Viippoila

5 ii. Anna Joransdotter Viippoila iii. Maria Joransdotter Viippoila iv. Brita Joransdotter Viippoila 18 v. Nils Joransson Viippoila, born 1754; died 1817; married Ablona Olofsdotter. vi. Olof Joransson Viippoila

Generation No. 7

72. Joran Persson Viippoila, born Abt. 1665; died 1711. He was the son of 144. Per Persson Viippoila and 145. Malin Joransdotter Yrjana. He married 73. Anna Mickelsdotter. 73. Anna Mickelsdotter

Notes for Joran Persson Viippoila: He was farmer on the lower farmyard with fields and meadows, today'a Ala-Viippola. Paid taxes 1695-1711. He was called Wippa, or something close to that, because he was recruited as a Swedish soldier in 1683 and used that as his soldier name. He was discharged in 1694.

Children of Joran Viippoila and Anna Mickelsdotter are: i. Mickel Joransson Viippoila, born 1692; died 1765.

Notes for Mickel Joransson Viippoila: Farmer-in-law at the Lauri farm of Nuottioranta village, in those days called Niemis, in the eastern parts of Niemis village. He took the name Mickel Joransson Lauri.

ii. Per Joransson Viippoila, born 1700; died 1784; married Ella Mickelsdotter Kayrasvuopio 1733.

Notes for Per Joransson Viippoila: The Viippola farm grew and, during the 1730's, the two brothers Per Joransson Viippoila and Joran Joransson Viippoila split up the original farm officially and started up two "new" farms. These were named "Yli-Viippola" (Upper Viippola) and "Ala-Viippola" (Lower Viippola. Yliviippola was designated farm No. 1, and Alaviiippola No. 2. Aron Izaksson Viippola, father of Abram Wiippola, was born on theYliviippola farm. The original farm where the old fellow "Viippo" or "Viippa" once resided seems to be on the plot No. 2 Alaviippola. Already in 1693 is found the embryo of the forthcoming Yli- Viippola farm, as the tax lists show that the Viipipola farm had two tax listed farm yards with fields and meadows, or at least two different farming families. Put they paid taxes as one farm. So from the late 1600's until the early 1730's, the original Viippoila farm had two farmers with their own farm buildings and such, but they shared the fields and meadows. It was these that were officially split into two separate pieces in the 1730's.

Per seems to be the one who resided on the old farm, Ala-Viippoila, which he officially split from the new establishment Yli-Viippoila just north of him. The new establisment had been acquired in 1693. Per split it off in the 1730's and only a few years later around 1740 sold his farm to a new farmer not connected to the family. He instead bought the Kaishannu farm in Nuottioranta village (Niemis) and moved there. He then dropped the Viippoila name and started to call himself Kaishannu. He was married in 1733 to Ella Mickelsdotter Kayrasvuopio and had several children. His daughter Maria, born 1741, married Karl Hurula, from whom decends Sture Torikka in Torino valley Sweden, who did the research on these early Wiippolas

36 iii. Joran Joransson Viippoila, born Abt. 1700; married Ella Nilsdotter. iv. Jons Joransson Viippoila

Notes for Jons Joransson Viippoila: Unmarried as of 1736.

v. Malin Joransdotter Viippoila

Notes for Malin Joransdotter Viippoila: Unmarried as of 1736.

Generation No. 8

144. Per Persson Viippoila, born Bet. 1630 - 1635; died Abt. 1683. He was the son of 288. Per Hansson

6 Viippoila. He married 145. Malin Joransdotter Yrjana. 145. Malin Joransdotter Yrjana

Notes for Per Persson Viippoila: He was the older brother and took over the farm after his parents. This was the original, southern portion of the farm called Ala-Viippoila. It is known to this day (2008) as Ala-Viippola, and the people who live there today use the surname Alaviippola. Since this farm was split off and sold out of the original Viippola family in about 1740, the present inhabitants are not related to the original Viippola family line.

Notes for Malin Joransdotter Yrjana: She was from the Yrjana farm in Alkkula village. (Yrjo is the Finnish name for George.)

Child of Per Viippoila and Malin Yrjana is: 72 i. Joran Persson Viippoila, born Abt. 1665; died 1711; married Anna Mickelsdotter.

Generation No. 9

288. Per Hansson Viippoila, born Abt. 1600; died Abt. 1665. He was the son of 576. Hans Hindersson Wippa.

Notes for Per Hansson Viippoila: Per Hansson Viippoila can be found in the tax lists 1647-1665, and possibly earlier. His two sons Per and Olof were well known. They were mostly called "Wippa" back in those days.

Note: The research on these early Wiippolas was contributed by Sture Torikka who lives in North Sweden. He was born in Niemis village in the Tornio Valley in 1958. This is an ethnic Finnish area where the Finnish language is spoken today. Sture Torikka is a historian and geneologist who has done much research about the Tornio Valley area. He has corresponded with Kathrine Korpi Savu of Ishpeming, Michigan.

Children of Per Hansson Viippoila are: 144 i. Per Persson Viippoila, born Bet. 1630 - 1635; died Abt. 1683; married Malin Joransdotter Yrjana. ii. Olof Perrson Viippoila

Notes for Olof Perrson Viippoila: Olof was the younger brother who established the beginning of the second farm in 1693, which was just to the north of the original farm and shared some of the fields. This farm came to be known as Yli- Viippoila and was officially split off (separated on the tax roll) about 40 years later.

By the end of the 1800's, the old tradition of taking the name of the farm for your last name died out. On the Yliviippola farm a new family moved in (the farmer was the son-in-law) and kept the name Pasula instead of Yliviippola. So today the dwellers on the Yliviipola farm use the surname Pasula. (But on the original Alaviippola farm, the people still use Alaviippola as their surname.)

Generation No. 10

576. Hans Hindersson Wippa, born Bet. 1570 - 1575; died Abt. 1620. He was the son of 1152. Henrick Hindersson.

Notes for Hans Hindersson Wippa: He is on the tax lists 1605-1620.

The Wiippola farm is located in the very northern parts of Alkkula village in Lapland, Finland. The most northern part of Alkkula was called Taroniemi and included several farms. It was here, on the east side of the Tornio River near Tornio Village, where the Viippola farm was first found on the Swedish tax lists, starting in 1539. (Finland was under Swedish rule until 1809, so the taxes went to the Swedish government). At this time the farmer on this farm was Pal Vibbesson, (aka Philpusson). He paid taxes between 1539-1548. Although a Finn, this was the Swedish version of his name. The Finnish translation is thought to be Paavo or Paavali Vippanpoika or Filppanpoika (English translation Paul, son of Philip). The patronymic indicates his father's name was evidently Vibbe or Vibba (Viippo or Viippa), an old version of of the name Philippus or Philip. In any

7 case, the farm which was established by 1539, was already known as "Viippo". It was the people in the community, the neighbors, who baptized the farm as "Viippo" after probably the first farmer here with that name. Then while talking about the locality, the very plot for the farm, they said "Viippoila". This meant it was the farm owned by this fellow "Viippo". Later arount the 1700's and 1800's, language changed slowly and the "i" at the end fell away, so the farm name became just ''Viippola".

The Finnish language doesn't use the double-W, but the double-W is nearly the only letter found when studying these early parish records. The reason is that the uses the double-W, and parish records were kept by the more affluent people who spoke the Swedish language. Finland was ruled by Sweden from the 1300's until 1809.

Prior to the 1880's,most people in western and northwestern Finland did not have permanent family names or surnames (like we use them today). Actually, families were not required, by law, to chose a permanent family name until the 1920 surname law. Although, by this time, many families had already chosen a permanent surname. The important thing to understand in finnish genealogy is that it was the places (farms) that had names (and not the people themselves). People were associated with the name of the farm that they were currently living on. Remember it is not accurate to call this a surname, or family name. It is usually referred to as simply a farm name. That's why people are often listed with 2 or more last names in a virkatodistus (which is an extract from a church parish record) or similar documents, according to the main farms they lived on during their lives. The most common ending for farm names is "la". When a son inherited the farm, he and his family were called by that name. When a daughter inherited the farm and married, the son-in-law who moved to the farm would take that name. The practice of adopting the name of the farm died out in the late 1800s.

Child of Hans Hindersson Wippa is: 288 i. Per Hansson Viippoila, born Abt. 1600; died Abt. 1665.

Generation No. 11

1152. Henrick Hindersson, died Abt. 1602.

Notes for Henrick Hindersson: Paid taxes on the Wiippola farm until 1602.

It is unknown whether the residents of the Wiippola farm before Henrick Hindersson were in the same family line.

Child of Henrick Hindersson is: 576 i. Hans Hindersson Wippa, born Bet. 1570 - 1575; died Abt. 1620.

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