Dragsfjärd

Because parish Communion records are listed by village and farm names and because farm names often were used as a part of a person’s name, it is interesting to note the following farms. HisKi project findings were used as a starting point to identify parish villages.  Then Parish Communion Records of 1854 – 1860 were used to confirm village and identify  farm names. ^{7 , 8 & 9} 

When looking at parish records, you likely will see this word:

• Inhyses translates to lodger or tenant

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

• There has been a chapel in Dragsfjard since ‘ancient times’
• Replaced with a new building in 1695, called Drage Chapel
• Current church was built in 1753 – 1755 by Anders Piimänen
• Named after the then Swedish King Adolf Fredrik
• Originally painted red, but re-painted several times
• Church has been yellow since renovation in 1973 ^{2, 3, 4, 10}

Image of Adolf Church of Dragsfjärd in Kimito. Attribution: JohanFredriksson / CC BY-SA
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) ⁵