Åland Islands

Hammarland

Parish Records

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. HisKi project findings were used as a starting point to identify parish villages.  Then Parish Communion Records of 1877 – 1886 and Land Records were used to confirm village and identify farm names. 10, 11, 12

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

Village names are listed below.  Click on village name to display farm names within that village.

This map that highlights the Hammarland parish from 1938 displays on the HisKi project website, made available by the Genealogical Society of Finland. 10

Parish History

Eckerö was once a chapel under the authority of the Hammarland parish.

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Villages & Farms

  1. Karlsö
  2. Mellangård
  3. Vestergård
  4. Östergård
  5. Södergård

  1. Vestergård
  2. Mellangård
  3. Karls / Södergård
  4. Östergård
  5. Norrgård

  1. Södergård
  2. Nygård
  3. Gladers
  4. Mellangård
  5. Norrgård
  6. Vestergård

  1. Södergård
  2. Östergård

  1. Södergård
  2. Norrgård

 

No farms listed

  1. Görans
  2. Marsund
  3. Erkas
  4. Vestergård
  5. Mellangård

  1. Södergård
  2. Norrgård
  3. Mellangård

  1. Mellangård
  2. Vestergård / Sommarlund
  3. Östergård

  1. Östergård
  2. Vestergård

  1. Östergård
  2. Norrgård
  3. Södergård
  4. Mellangård

  1. Norrgård
  2. Karlsgård
  3. Holmgers
  4. Seffers
  5. Södergård
  6. Neres

  1. Mattas
  2. Norrgård
  3. Nybondas
  4. Mellangård
  5. Södergård
  6. Grops

  1. Nedergård
  2. Öfvegård
  3. Karls
  4. Södergård
  5. Östergård
  6. Mellangård
  7. Zackrisas
  8. Vestergård

  • Loviselund

  1. Norrgård
  2. Södergård

  1. Norrgård
  2. Mellangård
  3. Södergård
  4. Östergård
  5. Vestergård
  6. Nybondas
  7. Nedergård

  1. Vestergård
  2. Mellangård
  3. Östergård
  4. Nedergård
  5. Vesterberg / Vestergård
  6. Norrgård

  1. Södergård
  2. Norrgård

  1. Östergård
  2. Vestergård

Parish Church

Saint Catherine of Alexandria Church 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Attribution: Puppe100 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.07

  • The stone church was built at the end of the 13th century
  • The building material was the local Åland red granite ‘rapakivi’
  • It was destroyed by fire in the beginning of the 15th century
  • Reconstructed in the 1830’s

Folk Dress

Each parish has a unique folk dress.  Parish folk dress can be recognized by its style, colors, and patterns.

Hammarland folk dress photo used with permission of the Brage costume agency. 8

Resources:

  1. Hammarland, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammarland
  2. Hammarland Church, https://www.kyrkor.ax/churches/hammarland-church/
  3. Hammarland Church; http://www.muuka.com/finnishpumpkin/churches/aland/church_aland.html
  4. Hammarland Church; https://www.spottinghistory.com/view/5/the-church-of-st-catherine/
  5. Hammarland Church: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terj%C3%A4rv_kyrka
  6. Hammarland Church: http://www2.visitaland.com/en/to-do/1135086/hammarland-church-sta-catharina/showdetails
  7. Hammarland Church image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hammarlandin_kirkko_(2019)_3.jpg
  8. Hammarland Folk Dress image, Brage costume agency, https://www.brage.fi/sve/draktbyra/draktbyran/folkdrakter/view-163648-56
  9. Hammarlands Kommunala Självstyrelse 1869 – 1944, Ålands Tidnings-Tryckeri ÄB, Mariehamn 1945
  10. Hammarland Parish, Genealogical Society of Finland, HisKi project, , http://hiski.genealogia.fi/hiski/fr4lat?en+0056
  11. Hammarland Parish Communion Records, https://app.arkivdigital.se/volume/v199466?image=1
  12. Åland landkapsarkiv, Land Records, https://www.arkivet.ax/en/digital-material/search-land-register
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