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Europe / Re: Finland: KLAMON
« on: Monday 11 August 08 14:34 BST (UK) »
about the place name - fakarr beck
there's lots of things that it could be
for example Kärrbäck which is in the north on the border between Sweden and Finland.
Do you know why they came to England? One reason might be that they were involved in the seafaring trade, and in which case maritime records might exist. But often, when it involved seamen, it was only the man that emigrated. women usually stayed behind.
At this time Finland was under Russian rule - although given more freedom than other parts of Russia - but ships sailed under a Russian flag. They could have come from the part of Finland that is now part of Russia - Karelia - but still spoke Swedish. Sounds funny now but national borders and identities have changed quite a lot.
The Finnish merchant shipping suffered quite a lot under the crimean war, when Britian, who wanted to distroy Russian influence in the Baltic sailed up the west coast of Finalnd and burnt the merchant shipping in seafaring towns
there's lots of things that it could be
for example Kärrbäck which is in the north on the border between Sweden and Finland.
Do you know why they came to England? One reason might be that they were involved in the seafaring trade, and in which case maritime records might exist. But often, when it involved seamen, it was only the man that emigrated. women usually stayed behind.
At this time Finland was under Russian rule - although given more freedom than other parts of Russia - but ships sailed under a Russian flag. They could have come from the part of Finland that is now part of Russia - Karelia - but still spoke Swedish. Sounds funny now but national borders and identities have changed quite a lot.
The Finnish merchant shipping suffered quite a lot under the crimean war, when Britian, who wanted to distroy Russian influence in the Baltic sailed up the west coast of Finalnd and burnt the merchant shipping in seafaring towns