When Matti Matinpoika Muurimäki was born on 27 August 1784, in Laihia, Vaasa, Finland, his father, Lautamies Matti Danielinpoika Muurimäki, was 36 and his mother, Liisa Jaakontytär Laurila, was 31. He married Maria Andersdotter Kumara on 25 October 1822, in Laihia, Vaasa, Finland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
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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.
Finnish peasants allowed to buy land.
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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