Pöytyä Parish, Turku-Pori, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Pöytyä is a municipality of Finland and is unilingually Finnish. The neighbouring municipality of Karinainen was merged into Pöytyä in the beginning of 2005 and the neighbouring municipality of Yläne was merged into Pöytyä in the beginning of 2009. Pöytyä's neighbouring municipalities are Aura, Eura, Lieto, Loimaa, Marttila, Mynämäki, Oripää and Säkylä. The municipality is home to Philava manor. Pöytyä was mentioned as a parish as early as 1366. The oldest church site in Pöytä has been considered the village of Kaulansuu, where there are plenty of place names referring to this. From there, the church was probably moved to Ordenoja and at the end of the Middle Ages to its current location. The current chuch was built in 1793. The Swedish name is ''Pöytis'.

Villages
As of 1939 the following villages were found in this parish: Auvainen, Kumila, Pöytyä, Rauhala, Riihikoski, Takalisto.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Oripää, Loimaa, Martilla, Karinainen, Aura, Yläne

Census

 * 1540-1713 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1654-1942 (*); Pöytyän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1656-1850 (*); Pöytyän 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
 * 1725-1909 at FamilySearch &mdash; How to Use This Collection; index
 * 1746-1860 (*); Pöytyän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * 1861-1899 (*); Pöytyän seurakunta at FamilySearch Catalog &mdash; images
 * Pöytyä at Finland's Family History Association (FFHA) (Suomen Sukuhistoriallinen Yhdistys ry) &mdash; images
 * Pöytyä 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