Finland - Reino Julius Nyronen

[KGarrad]

At my local FHS meeting last night, I was asked if I could help trace this gentleman, or possibly descendants?

He was interned in 'F' Camp, Ramsey, Isle of Man during WW2.
And he may have sailed on the SS Wallonia?

The attached drawing and letter belonged to him. Does anyone read Finnish?

[jamcat95]

Hi KGarrad

I put this out on a Finnish Forum and a kind Finnish member managed to get through it........

Partly deciphered original Finnish text.
"Laivamme kiitää ja pärskyt ne
laivan kylkeen lyö, ei sure
meripoika hetkiä noita, oli se
päivä taik[k]a musta yö.
(....) tyttöni itke vaan,
(vaikka?) laivamme lähti kauaksi
(p....), se meripoika, reissul-
laan (....) uskollinen olla."


Freely translated beginning:
"Our ship goes fast, waves hit ship's sides, seaman doesn't grieve of those moments, whether day or dark night.
Then he probably asks the girl not to cry, though the ship went faraway. And he promises to be true to her."

He said it was some kind of poem that possibly was copied among seamen.


Ian

[KGarrad]

Many thanks, Ian

[jamcat95]

Cheers.
Finding this guy won't be easy. There is too little to go on.
I took a look in Finland anyway but I suppose the privacy laws prevent him from being found for the time being.

Ian

[KGarrad]

Thanks for trying, though

Does Finland have the usual 100 year rule?

[jamcat95]

I can't remember but it is either 100 or 70 years.

[Vance Mead]

You can search parish records but there's very little after 1900.


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

[jamcat95]

That's where I looked to search his surname.

[Vance Mead]

It doesn't give any results for Nyronen but there are a few for Nyrönen, late 19th century.