- WANTED -
KALLE JAAKKO ROMPPAINEN
Update 2009-10-14
Thank you for all the information about Kalle
Jaakko Romppainen (1882 - 1905).
I did
receive several e-mails from the USA. The mystery of Kalle is being solved.
However,
the mystery of his brother Antti Edvard Romppainen (1884 -) remains unsolved.
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Kalle Jaakko
Romppainen (born on
22nd August 1882 in Hyrynsalmi, the province of Oulu in Finland) 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 in 1901. Kalle Jaakko Romppainen sailed on S/S Cymric from Liverpool on
18th October 1901. His destination was Hancock, Michigan. Kalle
Jaakko Romppainen lived with his uncle Kalle Tolonen (born 28th
January 1855 in Hyrynsalmi) in Hancock for sometime.
All tips about Tolonens and Romppainens living
in Hancock would be very interesting. Kalle Jaakko Romppainen worked for a
copper mine in Houghton County, Michigan. Kalle Jaakko died in a mine accident
on 18th June 1905. He was buried at the Atlantic Cemetery.
Kalle’s younger brother Antti Edvard Romppainen (born 1st September 1884 in
Hyrynsalmi) went to USA on 10th May 1904. Nobody knows what happened
to him either. Probably both of them were died in the USA. 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.
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