(Note: This text is copied and then revised from the entry at Wikitree, which I also wrote. That page has detailed sources.)
Nils Nilsson Hujanen (Finnish Niilo Niilonpoika Hujanen) was born in 1814 on Wiita 3 farm (later also known as Pitkäkoski) in Iisalmi, Finland. His parents were Nils Gabrielsson Hujanen (1782-1824) and Brigitta Johansdotter Korolainen (1784-1858).
The farm he lived on was named Pitkäkoski by 1827 and was considered Wiita 10 farm by 1839.
In 1851, Nils married Maria Rönkkö. Their marriage coincided with a particularly bad period for childhood death and disease. Their first two sons Petter (1852) and Adam (1854) both died in November 1855 of scarlet fever. Their son Jooseppi was born in 1856 and survived to adulthood. But their son Erik (1859) died in January 1860 at less than one month old of a fever and their son August (1861) died later that year at barely six months old of unknown causes. His wife Maria died the next year (of “väst i bröst” which is some kind of chest ailment, possibly a consequence of respiratory disease). She was only 38 (and Nils was 48).
At least two other close relatives died at Pitkäkoski during this same period of respiratory diseases or fevers.
Nils eventually remarried in 1870 to Kaisa Pulkinnen, who was born in 1849 and moved from Sotkamo to Pitkäkoski in 1869 or 1870. He was 56 at the time, and his wife only 21. Despite his relatively advanced paternal age, the couple had five children: Brita (1871-1871), Henrik Johan (1872), Lars (aka Lassi) (1875), Jaakko (1881), and Enokki (1882). Nils was 68 when his youngest son was born.
It is perhaps notable that in 1881 (and in the church records just before his death starting in 1891) Nils was recorded with his Finnish name “Niilo.” Likely he had used that name at home throughout his life, but it is the first official acknowledgement of his Finnish name.
Niilo died on 15 September 1891 in Pitkäkoski at the age of 77. The cause is hard to read and possibly misspelled, but might be “halvaus” (stroke).
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