Kuru Parish, Häme, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Kuru is a former municipality of Finland, now part of the town of Ylöjärvi and is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region.The municipality was unilingually Finnish. The water from the streams and river in Kuru is so clean, it is drinkable without purification. The vast majority of Kuru is either water or forest.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Aurejärvi, Kuru, Luode, Parkkuu, Poikelus.

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

Taxation

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