Symbols in the Communion Books
I know that the crosses next to a name mean death. What do the - what I call - "candelabras" next to the name mean? I had thought it meant mourning from when I've seen it in other books. The one I am looking at is the one in the first family group for Ulrika Mattsdr. I do not see anyone here she could be mourning, so it threw my theory off. It does show she got married, but it shows the same for her sister above her.
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The priest in a neighboring parish, Karvia, left an explanation of the marks that he used in the communion books. He used a similar symbol to indicate that someone had moved to another place within the parish. That page is here (left-hand page, second line): https://en.digihakemisto.net/item/1255092203/6293959014/224.
I can't be sure that it was used to mean the same thing in JalasJärvi parish, but it does appear the the people who have the symbol next to their names have moved.
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Thank you, @Norm Baker . I will have to review my other docs that I have saved to see what I missed.
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