Barbu Parish, Aust-Agder, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Barbu, Aust-Agder, Norway ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Church Records
See Austre Moland See also Holt

Digitized parish registers available online at Digitalarkivet [Digital Archives]

Barbu: 1878-1982

Barbu/Barbu: 1878-1982

Census Records
See Austre Moland for earlier census records.


 * 1900: Folketælling for Norge, 3 Dec 1900. 1900 census for Barbu prestegjeld (clerical district) is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. This census contains the persons name, sex, resident or temporary resident, temporarily absent and where person is, position in the family, marital status, occupation, year of birth, place of birth, citizenship, religion, and other miscellaneous information. Also available online at Digital Archives (Digitalarkivet).


 * 1910: Søk i folketellingen fra 1910. Available online at Digital Archives (Digitalarkivet), as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre at the University of Tromsø in Norway.

Farm Names
The farm number and name of the farms listed in Oluf Rygh Farm Names Index in about 1900 were as follows:

5 Barbu, 6 Bjørnebu, 9 Fosbæk,  7 Hafstad, 3 Hoveheien,  11 Krøgenes,  3 Langsæ,  8 Songe, 10 Stea, 2 Strømsbu østre,  1 Torbjørnsbu, 4 Torsbudalen,  3 Vigen, 8 Vindholmen

Probate Records
Nedenes judicial district *1640-1824 Family History Library *1698-1826 Digitalarkivet

Nedenes judicial district to 1824 *1852-1892 Family History Library *1852-1904 Digitalarkivet

Nedenes deanery *1693-1811 Family History Library *1693-1811 Digitalarkivet