Somewhere on this forum a member gave us a link to a map of Finland from the late 1890s. When I checked out the map I found "Mattfolk" labelled close to the town of Korsnas. As my grandmother had Mattfolk as her last name and was born in Korsnas I wondered if Mattfolk might have been a small village or perhaps an estate (?) in the 1890s. I know nothing of land holding in Finland. Could someone tell me more about this?
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this is the map - I saw mattfolk
http://www.histdoc.net/uscha/index.html
I put a link to a map on the thread named links of interest.
ChuckLast edited by granskare; 23-02-04, 09:46.
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Mattfolk
Ther are Mattfolk as a name on a farm in Ostrobotnia in
Lappfjärd kyrkoby since 1710 --
Närpes Gottböle " 1725 --
Närpes Kaldnäs " 1701 --
Närpes Yttermark " 1701---
Korsnäs Kyrkoby " 1701---
Esse Ytteresse " 1699--
so that is why a person named Mattfolk not
necessarily are related to an another with the same name.
--GustavGustav, Pargas
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People were primarily identified by first names and patronymicons. But the weren't really that many first names in use. That is why the name of the farm or village became a kind of family names.
Johan Persson Mattfolk meant simply that he was a different person than Johan Persson living on a farm called for example Backa.
This can cause confusion. Let's say that Johan Persson Mattfolk marries a daughter from the Backa farm and moves to live there. After that he is called Johan Persson Backa. The same person can thus have different "family names" in different periods of time.
The farm name can also be attached to farm hands or crofters without any blood relationship. So one must be careful to draw conlcusions about relationships only from family/farm/village names.
It was also possible for a person to declare that he wants to be called by a certain name. Sometimes you can se a note in the communion book "vill heta" = "wants to be called" and the desired name.
Sune
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Somebody named Mattfolk? at Worcester, MA
I was at Swenson searching S-125 which is Bethany Lutheran, a Swedish- Finn church, checking for Kaj's Wilson people there and I found this person.:
On membership book page 102,
Amanda Johnson [Mattfolk]
b. 4-19-1893 at Lappfjärd
So why was that name set apart?
Chuck
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Hello Kaj:
My grandmother arrived through Ellis Island (New York) in 1909 as Hilda Alina Mattfolk. She took the surname Johnson sometime later before she married in 1917. My grandfather also took the surname Johnson (born Erkus) before he married my grandmother. So a Johnson married a Johnson. I have kept the surname too as I believe it cost my grandparents a lot.Claire
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