HIRVELÄ

**Hirvelä Eleatsar Hjalmar* Joosepinpoika (Eleazar Hjalmar Josefsson)**

Parkano church records

b. 28.10.1882 Parkano

Parents: Tenant farmer Joosef Jaakobinpoika Hirvelä b.21.12.1847 Parkano d.29.5.1893 Parkano and Maria Gustaava Iisakintytär b.10.4.1844 Parkano

Boston passenger lists

Sails form Liverpool on Saxonia 4.3.1902 and arrives in Boston 13.3.1902. Going to friend Emil Hantille? in Boston. Personal information: Hjalmar Hirela, 19 years, single laborer from Hanko. Able to read and write. Has paid his own ticket, now has 7 dollars. Not in the US before.

Passport record 22.4.1905 to America

Eleatsar Jalmari Hirvelä, b.1882

Occupation in Finland: Tenant farmer´s son, single

Passenger record 26.4.1905

From Hanko on Arcturus, age 23 years

Plans to continue 2.5.1905 on Caronia (?), Cunard Line

Destination: Worcester MA

New York passenger record

Sails from Liverpool 2.5.1905 on Caronia and arrives in New York 11.5.1905. Going to brother Evert Hirvelä, 9 Milton Court, Worcester MA

Personal information: Eleatsar Hirvelä, 23 years, single laborer from Parkano. Has lived in Alabaster MA (?) 1902-04

Hirvelä Evert Serafianpoika

Parkano church records

b.4.9.1878 Parkano d.22.8.1927 Worcester MA

Mother: Serafia Jaakobintytär Hirvelä, Vienola b.25.8.1858

NY passenger lists

Has lived in 9 Milton Court, Worcester MA when his brother Evald Vienola, Arola b.6.2.1888 travels to him

Contact person to Eleatsar Jalmari Hirvelä b.28.10.1882 travelling to him May 1905, living in 9 Milton Court. Eleatsar names him his brother but is actually a cousin.

WWI Draft Cards

Evert Hirvela, b. Sep 1878, living in Worcester MA

US Census 1920 (still needs verifying!)

Everett Hirvela, 40 years, widower. Living with his children in 5 Milton Str, Worcester MA. Rented apartment. Occupation drawer in wire mill.

Family members: son Eino E 15 years; daughters Helen S 13 years and Elizabeth O 7 years. All children born in Massachusetts.