Vårdö

Parish Records

HisKi project findings were used as a starting point to identify parish villages. ⁷ Then Parish Communion Records of 1873 – 1882  and Land Records were used to confirm village and identify farm names.^{8, 9} Because parish Communion records are listed by village and farm name and because farm names often were used as a part of a person’s name, it is interesting to note the following farms.

To open a printable list of villages and farms (pdf), click here.

This map of the Vårdö Parish in 1938 displays on the HisKi project website, made available by the Genealogical Society of Finland. ⁷

Saint Matthius Church  ^{2, 3, 5}

• Built just south of the Åland postal route that connected Stockholm and Turku
• Dedicated to Saint Matthias
• Stone chapel built in the late 1400s; parishoner’s  received permission from the mother church (Sund Parish) to build the stone chapel in the late 1400’s as “it was difficult for old and sick people and the young to travel the long distance to the mother church.”
• Badly damaged during the Great Northern Was 1714-1721
• Rebuilt in 1786; designs of the court architect, Olof Samuel Tempelman of Stockholm were partially followed

To read more about the Vårdö church, click here. ³

Attribution: Ulf Rydin / CC  BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) ⁵