Pukkila Parish, Uusimaa, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Pukkila, formerly Savijoki, is a municipality of Finland. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality was known as Buckila in old Swedish documents, but is currently known as Pukkila also in Swedish. Pukkila got its own church around 1606 and the status of the chapel congregation of the Porvoo Evangelical Lutheran congregation around 1640. The chapel congregation got its own priest in 1676. The first church in Pukkila was renovated in 1677. The priest's office building was completed in 1701. The chapel congregation became independent as Pukkila parish in 1896. Pukkila's second church was built in 1814, it was boarded up 1834. At the same time, in 1814, Pukkila's first church, which was three hundred meters north of the second one, was demolished.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Kantele, Pukkila.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Orimattila, Myrskylä, Askola, Mäntsälä

Census

 * 1760-1779 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1639-1888 (*); Pukkilan seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1657-1890 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1657-1915 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index & images
 * 1682-1892 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1699-1855 (*); Pukkilan seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1745-1890 (*); Pukkilan seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Pukkila at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Pukkila 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