The Mikko Jokela II Family

The Family of Mikko Jokela II and Magdalen Johansdatter (the Birth Family of the Editor's Maternal Grandfather's Father), Köngäs, Kittilä Parish, Lappi Province, Finland. Jaako Jokela reports that Mikko Jokela II married Magdalen Johansdatter (probably in the 1819-20 period), who gave birth to their first child -- Mikko Jokela III -- on October 23, 1820, when Magdalen was 21-years-old and Mikko was 25. In the next 20 years, Magdalen gave birth to seven more children -- four sons and four daughters, in all.

Jaako Jokela says Mikko Jokela II was a judge.

In Book Two, volume 1, The Living Northern Light, the editor observes, "The peace of Hamina signed in September 1890 cut the parish of Pajala in two: the section that lay on the east bank of the river, including Yllastunturi mountain, went to Finland; the section on the west bank, including the town of Pajala, remained in Sweden. Thus it happened, the length of Konkama-Muonio-Tornio river valley - from Norway at the river's source in the north to the Gulf of Bothnia at the river's end in the south. The river that had united a people, who had shared a common ethno-geographic heritage for more than six centuries, now was a boundary that divided them. Either they remained subjects of the diminished Kingdom of Sweden, or they became subjects of the newly created Grand Duchy of Finland; after which the forces of nationalis, working in the 19th and 20th centuries, moulded them into modern Sedes and Finns."

In the year in which the peace of Hamina was signed, Mikko Ranta (Jokela) I turned 50; Mikko Jokela II turned 14.

He died on August 30, 1883; his wife Magdalen died about five years later, on March 15, 1888.