Ancestry
Information wanted regarding the Backlund family in Finland. They apparently went from Sweden in the early 1800,s and probably settled in the Ruskeala area. My father (Eric E Backlund) was born in Ruskeala, 2 July 1901. My grandfather(Charles Edgar Henry Alfons Backlund) was born in Vipuri, 5 May 1876. He was in the Finnish Gardet. He married Anna Elin Hildegard Procope, daughter of Albert Procope, Commandant of the Gardet. His father (Henry Backlund)was a teacher, professor who at one time was at Uppsala Univeersity.