Province
of
Oulu, Finland - Location:
Paavola by Siikajoki
River - SUOMEKSI / IN
FINNISH
Genealogy
In our family, the family name Vilmusenaho was first used by Matti Paavalinpoika (son of Paavali/Paul) Sipola (b. 12.1.1839, parents: Paavali Heikinpoika (son of Heikki) Sipola and Maria Juhontytär (daughter of Juho).
Part of our family has been living in Luohua of Paavola at least at the end of 1700's. Luohua, Paavola, belonged to the Siikajoki region (pitäjä) those days. It is probable that the Sipolas had moved to Luohua from Sipola village at Rantsila where this family name appears in the church files for a long time. The original home village of Vilmusenaho family might have been Sipola, Rantsila.
Paavo Sipola's son Matti Paavalinpoika Sipola changed his family name when moving to Aho farm at Luohua. Aho belonged to the previous lands of Vilmunen farm and this gave a new name for the family: Vilmusenaho (Aho of Vilmunen). This way, Matti was the first to use this name.
Matti was married to Maria Matilda from Siikajoki, daughter at Kaijankoski farm in 1863. Family name Vilmusenaho was after that used by Matti's sons, brothers Juho Henrik and Matti Emil Vilmusenaho /1/.
Juho Henrik Vilmusenaho
1878 - 1948
Family files (under construction of course...)
Picture 1 Juho Vilmusenaho and his family in the backyard of his house around 1930 and Juho's car (Ford 4-door Murray 1929)./2/
Picture 2 Juho Vilmusenaho and his family on the porch of his house in 1930 (same day as the previous picture)./2/
Picture 3 Juho and Sanna (holding Heino) in USA, 1903. /5/ (new)
Sources:
/1/ Yrjö Vilmusenaho's notes. The notes use as a source the genealogy of Paavali Sipola (1793-1865) prepared by the vicar of Paavola, Reverend Väinö Paalasmaa. In addition, Yrjö has received information from his father Juho Vilmusenaho's cousin Otto Sipola. Yrjö interviewed him in 1945. At that time, Otto lived in Järvelä farm on the back of Luohua. One winter evening, he told about his grandfather Paavo Sipola, who was especially known as a soothsayer, as well as other old stories from the village of Luohua. Yrjö emphasizes that he did not try to do an actual genealogy.
/2/ Photos and and what Mrs. Elsa Tiainen has tols
/3/ Information from Marjut Vilmusenaho
/4/ Data collected by Jarmo Lämpsä
/5/ Leena Vilmusenaho, 2003
/6/ Sanna Vilmusenaho, 2003
/7/ Päivi Torkki, 2005
/8/ Sirkka Tuononen, 2006
/9/ Sointu Kilponen, 2006
/10/ Leena Blåfield, 2006
/11/ Leo Halonen, Skutskär, Ruotsi, 11/2007
/12/ Material collected by Pentti Vilmusenaho 2010.
Family file pages directly (mostly in Finnish still):
Page
SIVU
1
SIVU
1-1 (updated
11/2007)
SIVU 1-1-4
SIVU
1-2
SIVU 1-4 (updated 3/2023)
SIVU 1-4-2
SIVU 1-4-2-3
SIVU 1-4-6 (updated
2/2023)
SIVU 1-4-7
SIVU 1-4-7-4
SIVU 1-4-9
Some Finnsih keywords:
s. (syntynyt) = b. (born), k.(kuoli/kuollut) = d. (died),
vihitty
= married, sivu = page, tr. (tytär) = daughter, p. (poika)
=
son, puoliso = wife/husband, aviomies = husband, vaimo = wife,
lapsia =
children (part of them or all), lapset = children (all),
vanhemmat =
parents, mm. = e.g. (among others), ja = and.
Maintaining these pages
On
this
site, there is no personal information besides family tree
data and
location of residence.
More information is given on older matters. Photographs
are mostly at least 20
years old.
You
can
send your comments, questions or additional data
concerning these pages
to vilmusenaho@viestin.com
or gkos@gkos.com
Please tell me if you have
information (old stories etc.) related to Vilmusenaho family
or
if you wish to have a link
to
your page added here. Old photos are also welcome (scanned
to a size of 10...150
kbytes,
JPG).
Webmaster,
photographed
in Oulu, 1959
Seppo Tiainen (Page 1-4-7-4)
Links: Paavola church -
