Biographic Time Line of my Maternal Grandparents, Johan Pöyskö and Sofia Ulriika Heikkinen Määttä, and Johan's First Wife, Kaisa Greta Kauppi Kontinen

1837 Birth of Elsa Kaisa Pöyskö (Mother of Johan Pöyskö)

Elsa Kaisa Pöyskö was born on Heikkilä farm, Oulu County, Finland. Daughter of Jaakko Pöyskö, and Caisa Lisa Sorenen. Elsa is first mentioned in the Oulu Lutheran Parish records in 1856, when she moved from Alakiiminki to Oulu. This author has yet to find Alakiimini on the Finnish map.

1840 Birth of Elsa Stiina Heikkinen

Elsa Stiina Heikkinen was born on Heikkilä Heikkilä farm, Oulu County, Finland. Daughter of Lasse Petteri Heikkinen and Kretta Riikka Tormanen. She later marries Anti Määttä and gives birth to Sofia Ulriika Määttä.

1860 Birth of Johan Pöyskö

Johan Pöyskö was born in Oulu Parish, Oulu County, Finland. Son of Elsa Kaisa Pöyskö. Johan later married Kaisa Greta Kauppi Kontinen, and, after Kaisa Greta's death, married Sofia Ulriika Määttä.

1864 Birth of Kaisa Greta Kontinen

Kaisa Greta Kontinen was born. She was the daughter of George Kauppi Kontinen and Margaret Kastel, and the first wife of Johan Pöyskö.

1869 Birth of Sofia Ulriika Määttä

Sofia Ulriika Määttä was born, daughter of Antti Määttä and Elsa Stiina Heikkinen.

1886 Immigration of Johan Pöyskö

Johan joined fellow Finnish emigrants in Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon, USA, a city that greatly resembled Oulu in temperature, environment, and resources. The difference was the ability for a Finnish laborer to find a good paying job, and being life as a property owner and fullly enfranchised citizen.

1887 Birth of Ira Jaako (George Jacob) Pöyskö

Ira Jaako (George Jacob) Pöyskö, son of Johan Pöyskö and Kaisa Greta Kontinen, was born in Oulu Parish, Oulu County, Finland.

1889 Return of Johan Pöyskö

Johan Pöyskö (John Poysky in the US) returns to Oulu, Finland for his family, Kaisa Greta Kauppi Kontinent and their son, Ir Jaako (George Jacob) Pöyskö, They traveled separately from Oulu to Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon.

1891 Immigration of Sofia Ulriika Määttä

Sofia Ulriika Määttä immigrates to Astoria, Oregon to join her siblings. She probably lived with her brother, Simo Kustaa Matta and his family..

1893 Johan Abram Poysky

Johan Abram Poysky is born and dies in Astoria. He was the son of John Poysky and Kaisa Greta Kontinen.

1896 Elsa Kaisa Heikkinen Määttä

Widow of Anti Määttä, and mother of Sofia Matta (formerly Määttä) leaves Kuusamo, Finland for Astoria. All of her living children had settled in or near Astoria at that time.

1896 Death of Kaisa Greta Kontinen Poysky

Kaisa Greta Kontinen Poysky dies in Astoria, Oregon from pneumonia. She and her second son Jon Abram share the same tomb stone in Greenwood Cemetery, Astoria, Oregon. Her death was recorded in her home Lutheran Parish record, Oulu, Finland. .

1899 Marriage of John Poysky and Sofia Ulriika Matta (formerly Määttä)

John Poysky and Sofia Ulriika Määttä are married in Clatskanie, Oregon, by John H. Lumigarvia, Minister of the Gospel, Quincy, Oregon.

1910 Death of Elsa Kaisa Pöyskö

Elsa Kaisa Pöyskö, mother of Johan Pöyskö (John Poysky in the US), dies in Oulu Parish, Oulu County, Finland.

1926 Death of Elsa Heikkinen Määttä

Elsa Stiina Heikkinen Määttä, mother of Sofia Määttä, Poysky, dies in Astoria, Oregon. She is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Poysky Family plot, Astoria, Oregon.

1931 Death of John Poysky

John Poysky dies in Astoria, Oregon after a prolonged illness. He is also buried in the Poysky Family plot in Greenwood Cemetery..

1936 Death of Sofia Heikkinen Määttä Poysky

Sofia Heikkinen Määttä Poysky dies in Astoria, Oregon after a proloned illness. She is buried near her husband in the family plot.

1940 Death of George Jacob Poysky

George Jacob Poysky, son of John and Kaisa Greta Poysky, dies in Quincy, Columbia County, Oregon, after a short illness.