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Titel: Help transcribe birth record?
Skrivet av: Frederick Farnbach skrivet 2017-04-02, 07:18
Can someone please help me transcribe entry 23 (third line from the top) from the following page?
(Originally downloaded from http://www.digiarkisto.org/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/pieksamaki/syntyneet_1795-1815_msrk_tk1423/69.htm (http://www.digiarkisto.org/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/pieksamaki/syntyneet_1795-1815_msrk_tk1423/69.htm))

I hope it is the birth record for Petter Pehrsson Skön, born 8 Apr 1804, who lived in Kirkoby.  I am confused because the last name of the father does not appear to be Skön.
Titel: SV: Help transcribe birth record?
Skrivet av: Ritva Winter skrivet 2017-04-02, 11:32

The father was called Flinck, he was a 'vargeringskarl' = reserv Soldier.
The soldiers were 'given' a surname by the army. That surname depended on which 'rote' (file?) they belonged to and which cottage they were to live in. Confusingly - the soldiers living in a certain cottage, succeeding each other, would be given the same name - without beeing relatives.
Petter's mother was Anna Lisa Wilhuin, aged 25
Titel: SV: Help transcribe birth record?
Skrivet av: Frederick Farnbach skrivet 2017-04-02, 12:07
Thank you for the transcription help and for the insight into last names.

Does this document confirm that the father's name was changed to Skön?  Petter Skön is the bottom entry and two entries up there are two entries for people born in 1778, one who appears to be a Wilhuin and another who appears to be Skön.
Titel: SV: Help transcribe birth record?
Skrivet av: Ritva Winter skrivet 2017-04-02, 13:10

Maybe this can shed some light (Source: Hiski)
The Soldier Per/Petter Skön became a crofter and a churchwarden.
Remarries in 1824, new wife He/lena Kaipian. Last mentioned Child is Absalom, born in 1840


Son Peter Skön, shoemaker, marries in 1827 to Eva Halonen



Titel: SV: Help transcribe birth record?
Skrivet av: Frederick Farnbach skrivet 2017-04-02, 14:23
Yes!  That is extremely helpful.

Where did you get all this information so quickly?  I have been poring over church records for the last day and hadn't uncovered half the information in your report.
Titel: SV: Help transcribe birth record?
Skrivet av: Ritva Winter skrivet 2017-04-02, 19:02

Glad to be able to help out.
The best way to start locating a person is to use the Hiski database
http://hiski.genealogia.fi/hiski/7tuvxf
then go to the Church records for confirmation and additional information.
Good luck!