Monday, 4 March 2024
Viipuri County Accounts 1635–1724
A collection of 22 transcribed Viipuri county account records listing people paid from crown funds — essential genealogical sources for Karelian families across nine decades.
The Viipuri county accounts (laanintilit) are crown financial records listing people who received payments from crown funds — soldiers, officials, craftsmen and others in the service of the Crown in the Viipuri region.
This collection presents transcriptions of 22 account records spanning from 1635 to 1724.
The Articles
The following years are covered:
1635 · 1639 · 1665 · 1670 · 1673 · 1682 · 1683 · 1697 · 1699 · 1700 · 1701 · 1702 · 1703 · 1705 · 1706 · 1707 · 1708 · 1709 · 1710 · 1711 · 1712 · 1724
Each article can be purchased separately for €4, or the entire collection for €70.
For Genealogists
County accounts are an underused source in Finnish genealogy. They complement poll tax rolls and church records by providing information about people in crown employment — people who may not appear clearly in other sources. For the Viipuri region, which was under continuous administrative change during the Great Northern War (and was eventually ceded to Russia at the Peace of Uusikaupunki in 1721), these records provide continuity of documentation across a period when other sources are often fragmentary.
The accounts cover an important span: from the consolidation of Swedish rule in the region in the mid-17th century, through the great famine years of 1696–97, the Great Northern War (1700–1712 being the active Finnish theatre), and the final years before and after the occupation.