Pargas

Land & Livelihood

• Consists of many islands and islets
• Limestone has been mined continuously since the 1300s ¹

Parish Records

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. ^{6, 7 & 8} 

• One of Finland’s 70 medieval graystone churches
• Believed to date back to 1380s or 1440-1450s
• In 1486, Petrus Henrisksson’s group decorated the church with fine murals and arches
• Has undergone many updates over the past 700 years ³

For additional church history details in Swedish, click here.

Image attribution: Antti Bilund, CCBY-SA 3.0
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