The listed graves are based on an inventory conducted by a working group (Monica Ahlström, Christopher Thiele and Eva Österlin) in 2021-2022. Read more about the project here.
The results showed that 193 (2022) Estonian Swedes who immigrated in the 1900s are buried in 50 cemeteries. One person is also mentioned on M/S Estonia’s memorial plate in Visby Cathedral. Map with Gotland’s parishes.
On the gravestones of those who immigrated from Vormsi to Gotland before World War II, it is often written Wormsö on the oldest stones or Vormsö on the slightly later ones, which was what Vormsi (Ormsö) usually was called in Swedish when they left Estonia in the 1920s and 30s.
