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MISSING KALLE JAAKKO ROMPPAINEN

HAVE YOU SEEN THESE MEN SOMEWHERE?

IF SO, PLEASE SEND ME YOUR TIPS

This photo was taken at Negaunee Studio in Negaunee, Michigan, USA in the early 1900’s.

The man sitting is unknown, the man standing is my grandfather’s halfbrother Kalle Jaakko Romppainen.

Kalle Jaakko Romppainen was born on 22^nd August 1882 in Hyrynsalmi, the province of Oulu in Finland. Kalle travelled to the USA in 1901 because of the illegal enrolment for the Russian army. He did not want to join the Russian armed forces. Kalle bought a ticket of 305 Finnish marks and travelled from Hanko by M/S Acturus to England. Arcturus left Finland on 21^st October 1901. Kalle moved from England to Hancock, Michigan. He probably worked for an iron mining company. Nobody knows what happened to Kalle Jaakko Romppainen after that.

Kalle’s younger brother Antti Edvard Romppainen (born 1^st September 1884 in Hyrynsalmi) went to USA on 10^th May 1904. Nobody knows what happened to him either. Probably both of them were died in the USA. Family tradition tells me that Kalle Jaakko died in a mine accident. In the beginning of the century Kalle Jaakko Romppainen sent a post card from Negaunee to Finland. So, he may have lived close to Marquette too? Kalle moved to USA by the same ship that was carrying some other relatives of mine too. Kalle’s second cousin Kalle Jaakko Romppainen (borned 1880 in Ristijärvi) and his wife Tilda Kemppainen were travelling to USA on the same ship. They went to Hancock too. They returned back to Finland in the 1910’s but their older children were all born in the USA.

Something new has been found:

Kalle Jaakko Romppainen sailed on S/S Cymric from Liverpool on 18^th October 1901. His destination was Hancock, Michigan. Kalle Jaakko Romppainen lived with his uncle Kalle Tolonen (born 28^th January 1855 in Hyrynsalmi) in Hancock for sometime. Perhaps the other male on the photo is actually Kalle Tolonen? All tips about Tolonens living in Hancock would be very interesting.

Total of 38 Romppainens moved to the USA and Canada between 1892 and 1913.

Their descendents live mainly in these four areas:

1) Great Lakes: Michigan (Hancock and Detroit areas)

2) East coast USA: Maine and Connecticut

3) West coast USA: Seattle in Washington

4) Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada

If you have any clues about these two relatives of mine, please let me know. Also if you have done your own genealogy research about the Romppainen family there in the USA, please let me know. It would really great to find out if there are any relatives of mine living in USA today. You can send me an e-mail.

your tips to Hannu

More information about the Romppainens in English

www.romppainen.net