Repo Family history in Finland

[sherylbadger]

Ok.  Been a while since i have been on here. :/

I am starting my partners tree and running into roadblocks already.

The only info i have is

father:
Ari Jouko Tapani Repo
Birth 27 JUN 1957 Finland
Death 31 DEC 2009 • Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Parents
Father
Pentti Veikko Armas Repo
Birth 21 MAR 1935 Finland
Death Unknown South Australia

Mother

Kaija Kahrina (nee Forsander)
Birth 17 JUL 1935 ? Finland
Death Living

I have since found shipping records in 1959 from London to Australia and that part is fine i can search this end easier.

I am having trouble in finding when/how they got to London?
How do i research Finland records in English...LOL

Being that my partner was estranged from his father and that side of the family i have very little to go on, especially as his father passed in 2009.

Any starting pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[jamcat95]

Hi Sheryl and welcome to RootsChat.

The dates you have are too new for any parish database search unfortunately.
I took a look here for you in the passenger records database:  http://maine.utu.fi/emregfree/ml_engsearch2.asp  and there is a Pentti Repo in the database. It could be him but the date is missing. To see the record you have to be a member but searching is free and there is no guarantee there will be more info but a parish could be recorded.
I have a membership here if you want more help:  http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/index_eng.htm


Ian

[jamcat95]

There is also a Kaija Repo in the same passenger list database without a year too. So this could be your family.

Ian

[sherylbadger]

the date says     99.99.9999 and that is all i get....LOL

[Vance Mead]

There's also this site for parish records, but I don't think they have much after about 1900.


http://hiski.genealogia.fi/hiski?en

[jamcat95]

the date says     99.99.9999 and that is all i get....LOL

Yes.
But if you want to pay for a membership and take a chance you may get more info. This I believe is the only way at the moment to try to get further.

Ian

[jamcat95]

The surname Repo is most probably taken from a farm name. The Finnish did this a lot even changing their surname everytime they moved sometimes making it very difficult to trace families. There were unfortunately a number of Repo farms in Finland back then.

Ian

[Vance Mead]

As said above, there are a lot of people named Repo, all over Finland. The name means Fox.

You might have more luck with Forsander. This was a Swedish name - a minority in Finland. Where you will find hundreds named Repo in the link I posted above, there are only a few named Forsander.

In the Hiski records I linked above, there's nothing after 1910. So you'd have to get at least one generation further back.