Umeå Stadsförsamling Parish, Västerbotten, Sweden Genealogy

History
Umeå City parish was separated in 1646 from Umeå Parish (which then changed its name to Umeå County Parish). On January 1, 1971, Ålidhem's parish was evicted from Umeå City Council. For information about the scope of Ålidhem's parish, see the history of Ålidhem's church archives.

Umeå City Council was part of a joint pastorate with Umeå County Council until 1871 to then form its own pastorate.

In connection with the formation of Ålidhem's parish, a church community was established in 1971 between the city parish and Ålidhem, which forms its own archive, see Umeå / Ålidhem's church community's archive. In addition to the church community, there was also from 1969 a common office for the parishes in Umeå, Umeå church central administration. The community and the central administration contain, among other things, minutes, real estate documents and accounts with personnel and salary documents. The community and the central administration form their own archives.

On 1 January 1995, Umeå / Ålidhem's church community merged with Umeå parish's church community and formed a common church community, see Umeå church community's archive.

The parishes in Umeå established a joint cemetery administration in 1969 for the administration of questions about the funeral activities, see Umeå church community, the cemetery administration's archive (-1999). The archive includes minutes, burial books (even before 1969, the oldest from 1890) and other documents concerning funeral activities. The archive includes documents for the period before 1969.

Umeå City's first donation letter was issued in 1622. Through this, Tavel, Stenbäck and Lövön were placed under the city. The following areas of Umeå County Council have since been donated or privileged the city. - Kungsgården, forming part of Grisbacka or Backa (1643) - Hemmanet Sanda samt Myrängen (Långmyran) (1646) - Fishing at Bjurön and part of Grubbe and Grisbacka (1650) - The island and the islets (1652) - Tavle by (1680)

Of the apartments mentioned, Stenbäck has disappeared from the land register. The board is divided into two villages, Inner board and Outer board. The land registers show that the oldest donation was intended only for the latter village, including four homesteads, two of which were actually called Tavle and two Stenbäck. The summer residence mentioned in the interim privileges probably belonged to Umeå royal estate, even though it was located in the area of ​​Tavle village. Resolution 1643 states that the donation of Lövön has not been realized.

According to a royal letter, an area, mainly comprising Lövön 1: 268 and the islet Stormkär in 1932, was transferred to the city of Umeå from Holmsund parish.

On 1 January 1980, according to the Government's decision, certain areas in Rödäng, Ersmark and Berttjärn parishes were transferred from Umeå County Council to Umeå City Council, as well as part of Innertavle from the National Assembly to Ålidhem Parish. At the same time, part of Tvärå was transferred to the national parish from Umeå City Parish. Part of Ersboda was transferred to Umeå City Council from Ålidhem's parish.

For information about Umeå City Parish, see also Umeå County Parish Church Archives C: 1 (births, marriages), 1725-1735 (deaths); L I a: 1 1617-1633 (parish meeting resolution); N I: 1 1715-01-14 (information on church inventory); and Nysätra church archives A I: 7 and C: 4 1833 19-23 January (birth information, 1830 5 and 8 July (death information).

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