KAISLA

Kaisla (Klöf) Hulda Vilhelmiina

Parkano and Ikaalinen church records

b. 24.6.1880 Ikaalinen. Moved to Parkano from Ikaalinen 1908

Parents: coppersmith Isak Daniel Klöf b. 27.7.1854 Luvia and Amanda Adolfina Sjölund b. 12.1.1885 Ikaalinen. Married 16.6.1878

Husband: Kaarle Heikki Annanpoika Kaisla b. 11.1.1885 Parkano d. 19.2.1937 America. Married 1.11.1908

Pastor´s certificate for a passport to America 6.6.1910

Declared dead 21.9.1977, date of death 1.1.1977

Note: At least two of Hulda´s siblings emigrated: Lempi Johanna* Klöf b. 26.2.1885 emigrated 1909 to New York and Väinö Erik Klöf b. 24.1.1897 emigrated 1928 to Canada

Passenger record from Finland not found

New York passenger lists

Sails from Southampton on Philadelphia 18.6.1910 and arrives in New York 26.6.1910. Going to mother-in-law Anna Ahonen, c/o JA Harper, Newburgh NY

Personal information: Hulda Kaisla, 23 years, wife from Parkano. Able to read and write. Nearest relative in Finland father Taniel Klöf, Kauppala. Husband has paid the ticket, Hulda has 37 dollars. She has not been in the US before. Hulda is 5 ft, has fair skin, brown hair and eyes. She was born in Kauppala.

Note: Kauppala in this context means Ikaalinen town

Kaisla (Ahonen) Kaarle Heikki Annanpoika

Parkano church records

b. 11.1.1885 Parkano d. 19.2.1937 Pultray Point (drowned in a storm)

Mother: Anna Lovisa Lindholm, Ahonen b. 4.7.1863 Turku

Wife: Hulda Vilhelmiina Klöf b. 24.6.1880. Married 1.11.1908

Pastor´s certificate for a passport to America 6.6.1910

Passenger record from Finland not found

Boston passenger lists (Kaarle Ahonen)

Sails from Liverpool on Cymric 1.2.1906 and arrives in Boston 10.2.1906. Going to Amasa MI to friend Gerhard Saarinen, Box 155, Amasa MI Personal information: Kaarle Ahonen, 21 years, single painter from Parkano. Able to read and write. Has paid his own ticket and now has 10 dollars.

New York passenger lists (Kaarle Kaisla)

Sails from Southampton on Philadelphia 18.6.1910 and arrives in New York 26.6.1910. Going to mother Anna Ahonen, c/o JA Harper, Newburgh NY

Personal information: Kaarlo Kaisla, 25 years, married painter from Parkano. Able to read and write. Nearest relative in Finland father-in-lawTaniel Klöf, Kauppala. Kaarlo has paid his own and wife´s ticket, now has 50 dollars. Kaarlo has lived in the US 1905-08, possibly in Suffolk? (bad handwriting in record) Kaarlo is 5 ft 7 inches, has fair skin, blonde hair and brown eyes. He was born in Parkano