I am throwing this out here in hopes for the best that someone has ideas how to identify these people from the pictures and the minimal information that I do have. There is a lot of guess work in here but still let's try perhaps we can figure it out together and connect the right people and branches. So story time.
Basically six years ago a very elderly Ingrian-Finnish woman (she was in her mid 90-ies at the time) Maria Liske from Poritsa village, Venjoki, Ingria together and with the encouragement of her only child sold to Viron Inkerinsuomalaisten Liitto several of her old family photos of Ingrian-Finns from Venjoki region in Ingria.
Basically Maria Liske and her daugther wanted the photos to go somewhere where they would be appreciated and could be used by historians who research/write about Ingrian history. They didn't want to keep the photos themselves since, they didn't really know most of the people in the photos so Viron Inkerinsuomalaisten Liittos' archive got them and is their current home.
Maria Liske herself got the photos as a heirlooms from her aunt Maria Aleksandrova Huli who lived in Hulila (Wanhamoisio) village, Venjoki. Whether the Aleksandrova is a maiden name or a patronym I don't know. Since six years ago when I interviewed Maria Liske about the photos I wasn't in to geneaology yet so I didn't think to ask more info about the orginal owner of the photos, so now I am trying to identify the original owner & correct Maria Huli from Hulila village and connect the right family branches.
The things Maria Liske mentioned in the interview about the original owner of the photos is the fallowing.
Maria Aleksandrova Huli, lived in Hulila (Wanhamoisio village) and had an only son Nikolai Simon-son Huli, who had been drafted in to the Russian army and had died during the war, hence why Maria Liske got the photos as an heirloom. From Maria Huli's son's patronym Simo we can make a guess that Maria Aleksandrova Huli's husband was called Simo Huli from Wanhamoisio/Hulila.
I combed trough the 1924-1938 Venjoki rippikirja and did not find any fitting families. So they might not have been part of the congregation.
I did find a potential matching mother & son combo from the Wanhamoisio villagers list of 1942-1944.
There was listed one widowed Maria Huli born in 1888 who had a son Nikolai Huli born in 1913 who had been drafted to the army.
Maria Maksimovna Huli
&
Nikolai Simonson Huli
While the Venjoki 1924-1938 rippikirja and Wanhamoisio villagers list of 1942-1944 didn't have any fitting Simo Huli's I did find two potential
Simo Huli's from Wanhamoisio from the older 1885-1895 rippikirja who could be the potential husband of Maria Huli and father of Nikolai Simon-son Huli.
Does anyone have access to the 1913 births and could check if you can find Nikolai Simon-son Huli's birth and parents from Venjoki?
Or if you can find a marriage between one Simo Huli and Maria Aleksandrova in Venjoki Wanhamoisio?
