Pori Parish, Turku-Pori, Finland Genealogy

Guide to Pori parish, Finland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

History
Pori is the capital of the Satakunta region and the Pori sub-region. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. It is the 11th largest city in Finland, and the 7th largest urban area.

Pori was born when the town of Ulvila was moved in 1558 to the current site of Björneborg, i.e. the former royal estate. The town received its privileges in 1564. Pori belonged to the Ulvila diocese until 1877, but was able to separate from Ulvila only in 1919 and got its first priest in 1922. However, Pori had been an independent diocese before in 1584-1602. Pori includes the Reposaari harbor area separated from Ulvila in 1604, which was formed as a prayer house in 1876 and separated as a parent parish in 1929, which, however, had a relationship with the city, e.g. joint council.

The city and country parishes of Pori also functioned together, although they were separate from the municipal point of view until 1967. Mäntyluoto and Yyteri were joined in 1911 and Uniluoto in 1912 from the rural parish to the city. In 1942, Mäntyluoto and the Toejoe area were annexed from Ulvila. Ruosniemi, Hyvelä, Uus-Aittaluoto, Vähärauma villages and parts of Tuorniemi and Pietniemi villages were annexed from Maaseurkunna in 1954.

In 1959, it was decided to divide the city and country parishes of Pori into four different parishes: Keski-Pori, Pori Teljä, Pori Läntise and Pihlajava parishes. In 1961, the parishes of Länsi-Pori and Pihlajava were realized and what remained became the bilingual Keski-Pori. The parish of Teljä separated from Keski-Pori in 1966. In 1972, the municipality of Ahlaisten was incorporated into the city of Pori and the parish was changed into one of the parishes of Pori. Reposaari is the sixth parish of the Pori parish association. A fire destroyed the church and the belfry and also the parsonage on 28/5 1698, again in a fire in the city the belfry on 10/6 1801. In a new fire in the city on 22/5 1852, the church and the belfry were destroyed. The Swedish name is Björneborg.

Regarding the poor management of the church registers, the magistrate points out from the investigation he held in the minutes of 8/1 1773 as a statement that during the previous 9 years no regular lists of births and deaths had been kept in the parish, and that these lists were then wanted to be straightened and filled" and that "not only the number of the dead has always been uncertain, but also - - - the names and numbers of many births have gone unrecorded, as well as the names of the fathers, and often the month and year incorrectly recorded, even that - - -". [O. Durchman: The destruction of church archives. Genos 3(1932). Supplement VI. Genos 5(1934). Supplement VIII. Genos 15(1944). J. W. Ruuth: Björneborgs stads historia (Helsingfors 1897) p. 398]

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Björneborg, Enäjärvi, Hyvelä, Järvikylä, Kalaholma, Kellahti, Koivisto, Koivistonluoto, Kylänsaari, Lyttylä, Mäntyluoto, Pihlava, Pori, Preiviiki, Reposaari, Ruosniemi, Toejoki, Ulasoori, Uusikoivisto, Vanha-Koivisto.

Place Names
To see what kind of place it is you will need a Finnish gazetteer.

Surrounding Parishes
Ahlainen, Kullaa, Luvia, Noormarkku - Norrmark, Ulvila - Ulvsby

Church Records

 * 1657-1890 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1657-1915 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index & images
 * 1666-1865 (*); Porin kaupunkiseurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1666-1875 (*); Porin kaupunkiseurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1725-1864 (*); Porin maalaiskunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1737-1886 (*); Porin maalaiskunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1856-1900 (*); Porin kaupunkiseurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1865-1900 (*); Porin maalaiskunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Pori - Björneborg at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Pori - Björneborg at HisKi, Genealogical Society of Finland (Suomen Sukututkimusseuta) &mdash; index. More information about the church

Emigration and Immigration Records

 * 1900-1920 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index

Taxation Records

 * 1809-1915 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images