Grandma's quick notes about your great great great great grandfather.
via Pauli, Eero, Kauko, Anna, Aina, Topelius
Aina Sofia Topelius 1846-1916
Anna Matilda Nyberg 1879-1923
Kauko Kuoppamäki 1900-1985
Eero Kuoppamäki 1935 -1989
Pauli Kuoppamäki 1964 -
Johnathan 1995, Heather 1998, Tobias 2001
Zachris Topelius was born 14 January 1818 and died 12 March 1898.
Topelius was a best-selling author in both Finland and Sweden, well liked, and he is to this day considered a model, upright citizen.
The original name of the Topelius family was the Finnish name Toppila which had been latinized to Toppelius by the author's grandfather's grandfather and later changed to Topelius.
Zacharias Topelius, a Swedish-speaking poet, publisher, and academic, had immense influence in Finland during the second half of the 19th century. Topelius specialized in genres such as Finnish history, children’s stories, hymns, and patriotic poetry and fiction. He was the editor of Finland’s most influential newspaper, Helsingfors Tidningar.
Topelius served as the rector of the Imperial Alexander-University (University of Helsinki) for a short time, 1875-1878. He scandalized his colleagues by campaigning for opening the university to female students and by saying publicly, as early as 1877, that Finland’s future was Finnish-speaking. This caused a scandal in the Swedish-speaking university and was one of the reasons he was not voted in for a second term.
Aina Sofia Nyberg (Topelius) born 5 October 1846 and died 15 Decenber 1916
She was the daughter of Zacharias Topelius and Maria Emilia Topelius
She was the wife of Berndt Axel Nyberg
and mother to Anna Matilda Nyberg who married Lauri Mäkinen
Aina Sofia Nyberg (Topelius) SITTING born 5 October 1846 and died 15 Decenber 1916
She was the daughter of Zacharias Topelius and Maria Emilia Topelius
She was the wife of Berndt Axel Nyberg IN PHOTO FRAME
and mother to Anna Matilda Nyberg who married Lauri Mäkinen
The picture below are these people:
Lauri Mäkinen (Kuoppamäki) and Anna Matilda Nyberg
with their eight children,
Kauko, Pentti, Anna, Iikka, Jorma, Outi Kaisa and Teavo.
Three never had children, Jorma, Outi and Anna.
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Kauko sitting far left, his mother Anna to his right. Kauko's father Lauri is reading. Other people in photo, Jorma, Outi, Pentti, Teavo, Iikka, Anna, Kaisa
In the above photo are all 8 children and their mother Anna and their
father Lauri. Sitting to the left of his mother is Kauko. Six of their children
were still alive when I moved to Finland in 1967.
Outi had died of Syphilis and Jorma fell from a mast at sea, broke his leg, it turned
gangrenous and it was cut off. He asked his cousin Greata to bring him a gun to the hospital and he committed suicide.
Your father Pauli as a little boy, his dad Eero above him, his cousin Mikko next to him, the three older men from the left Iikka, Mikko was his son, Teavo and Kauko who was Eero's father your great grandfather.
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Henrik Nyberg with his wife with their youngest son
Henrik was President of GHH