When Matti Immonen was born on 12 January 1767, in Kuhmo, Oulu, Finland, his father, Matts Immonen, was 32 and his mother, Anna Korhonen, was 33. He married Kaisa Piirainen on 14 March 1786, in Kuhmo, Oulu, Finland. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lammasperä, Kuhmo, Oulu, Finland for about 65 years. He died on 21 February 1832, in Kuhmo, Oulu, Finland, at the age of 65.
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Russian invasion of Sweden supported by Napoleon.
Sweden ceded Finland to Russia. Finland became Grand Duchy of Russia. State Council of Finns appointed. Finland enjoys limited autonomy.
form of the name of the Christian evangelist, author of the first gospel in the New Testament. His name is a form of the Hebrew name Mattathia, meaning ‘gift of God’, which is fairly common in the Old Testament, being rendered in the Authorized Version in a number of different forms: Mattan(i)ah, Mattatha(h), Mattithiah, Mattathias, and so on. In the Authorized Version, the evangelist is regularly referred to as Matthew, while the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot is distinguished as Matthias . A related name from the same Hebrew roots, but reversed, is Jonathan . Throughout the English-speaking world Matthew has been particularly popular since the 1970s.
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