Wilhelmina Dufva
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Sofia Wilhelmina Dufva
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Finn-Mina or Körö-Mina 1858-1931.
Moved to Hotskär from Rimito in July 1906 together with her daughter Fanny Vilhelmina Dufva b 27.02.1903.
Vilhelmina Friberg was housekeeper for Klemets 1/8 tenant and shoemaker Karl Edvard Karlsson Silfverström b. 19.08.1852 in Närpes,
who became a widower in 1906 and died in 1911.
In her old age, Finn-Mina lived in Köröskogen on Storstu land with her cat and goats in a hillside cottage that the village had built for her.
Moved to Hotskär from Rimito in July 1906 together with her daughter Fanny Vilhelmina Dufva b 27.02.1903.
Vilhelmina Friberg was housekeeper for Klemets 1/8 tenant and shoemaker Karl Edvard Karlsson Silfverström b. 19.08.1852 in Närpes,
who became a widower in 1906 and died in 1911.
In her old age, Finn-Mina lived in Köröskogen on Storstu land with her cat and goats in a hillside cottage that the village had built for her.
Miscellaneous
A story that is told about Finn-Mina is that she came from Rimito with her child and a husband to "Lillöjen" (Lillö). They intended to settle there and built a primitive dwelling. One day the man was going to take their boat out, but fell into the lake and drowned; the boat also disappeared on that trip.
There sat Finn-Mina alone with her child!
Eventually, someone must have found them and brought them to Björkö, but the story doesn't say how that happened.
After this adventure, she became a housekeeper for the shoemaker Silfverström.
Finn-Mina's daughter Fanny moved to Turku in 1922 and later to America, where she married and had a son.
She often wrote letters and sent many photographs to Matilda Blomqvist, according to the letters she lived a good life there, despite a somewhat adventurous beginning.
Images from Siv Fagerlund and Tina Sigfridsson's exhibition.
There sat Finn-Mina alone with her child!
Eventually, someone must have found them and brought them to Björkö, but the story doesn't say how that happened.
After this adventure, she became a housekeeper for the shoemaker Silfverström.
Finn-Mina's daughter Fanny moved to Turku in 1922 and later to America, where she married and had a son.
She often wrote letters and sent many photographs to Matilda Blomqvist, according to the letters she lived a good life there, despite a somewhat adventurous beginning.
Images from Siv Fagerlund and Tina Sigfridsson's exhibition.
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