Holla (Hollen) Parish, Telemark, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Holla, Norway ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Church Records

 * Holla clerical district contains the parish registers from the parishes Holla (Hollen) and Helgen in Telemark county. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the.

Holla (Hollen) clerical district: 1717-1973

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 Clerical Census: This census was taken by the local parish priests. It covered Hollen (Holla) clerical district and included Hollen (Holla) included Hollen (Holla) parish and Helgen annex and Kommenes annex. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Scanned images are online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Bailiff's Census 1664-1666, no. 6: Øvre and Nedre Telemark fogderi and Bamble fogderi ncluded Hollen (Holla) parish and Helgen annex and Kommenes annex. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Scanned images are available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives). 


 * 1782 Census The 1782 census for Holla clerical district and included Holla parish and Helgen parish. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.


 * 1801: The 1801 census for Holla clerical district included Holla and Helgen parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).
 * 1801 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1865: The 1865 census for Holla clerical district included Holla, Romnæs, and Helgen parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).
 * 1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1875: The 1875 census for Holla clerical district included Holla and Helgen parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).
 * 1875 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1891: The 1891 census for Holla clerical district included Holla and Helgen parishes. It is available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * 1900: The 1900 census for Holla clerical district included Holla and Helgen parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * 1910: The 1910 for Holla census is available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * The census of 1865, 1875, 1900 and 1910 are also available at the Norwegian Historical Data Center

Farm Books
Gjerpen Bygdebok The author has worked for years to collect this information. He has decided to put it on the internet for free.

Holla- and Lunde Family This website contains most of the families in Holla from 1600-1700 and up to 1900. At the moment there are portions of some families from Lunde, which will be completed utilizing the same period of time as Holla. (The list also contains families not connected to Holla and Lunde.)

Sources used are church records, transcription of churh records by Ole Bjørn Darrud, Gard Strøm and Nils Buverud. Arne Johan Gjermundsens transcription of Probate records from Holla. Solumslekt by Leif Biberg Kristensen has been very useful. Some are taken from "Holla I", and much information have come from Halvor Sigurdsen, found in old records in Telemark, - concerning Holla. Brian Langkaas from Alberta in Canada has contributed with much information about families, from both Holla and Lunde. Transcriptions published on the web, by Digitalarkivets, has also been useful, and digitised parish registers have now made it even easier to control the information. Gunnar Oppheim's "Nokre ætter I Lunde" and "Flåbygd - Ætter og folkeliv" - together with - "Lunde herad med Flaabygd - Gardesogur og Ættetavlur" by Olav Stranna has been a very important source of information. The web-based Ætte- og gardssoger for Kviteseid has given lots of information about the families in Flåbygd. Information about families in Drangedal has been found in Bjørn Edvin Holte's "Slektregister for Drangedal". "Hørtesoga", and "bygdebøker" from Bø, Sauherad, Heddal, Seljord and more have also been used.

Ytterbøe, S.,Holla, Skien, 1957-1975. A history of Holla in Telemark county with a genealogy of the people and their farms. FHL 948.27/H1 H2y A farm name index to volume 1 is found in the following link.

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

2 Bakke-Susaas 26 Bjørndalen 24 Borgen 33 Borstad 29 Bosli 36 Brenne 15 Brøndalen 6 Dagsrud og Nyhus 40 Deila 9 Deilevje  7 Eide nedre 14 Eikestaa 29 Einarhaugen 10 Espehvalen  25 Fen nedre 4 Fosse  38 Galten og Maureflaaten 22 Gjuvet 31 Glaholt 32 Graver 39 Gravningen 15 Grønli  19 Haatvet lille 29 Hagen 15 Hegland 15 Hegna 9 Heisholt vestre 12 Hollen Jernværks Grund 37 Hvala  4 Kaasa 39 Kalvodde 41 Kastet 34 Kjendalen 4 Kornkaasa 3 Kraakefet 41 Kvernodden og Smedodden  4 Langjordet 27 Lillejordet og Kaasa 34 Lunde nedre  18 Mjølteig 36 Moene 2 Mutterud  3 Namlaus 29 Namlaus Midgaard  38 Opsal 3 Oterkjær  14 Pladsen 11 Præstegaarden  23 Roligheden 41 Romenes 41 Romenes østre 3 Rydningen 28 Røgstuen 14 Røibæk  16 Sanden 41 Sanderholt 39 Sandnes nedre 26 Skippervold 40 Skogen 1 Skordal lille 25 Smiutraaen 2 Storhaug 31 Stuverud med Heia 3 Susaas 24 Søve  29 Teigen 17 Teksle 3 Toreskaas 23 Tufte 10 Tvara 14 Tveit  42 Ulefoss 39 Ulleviken 31 Usterud  31 Vale 31 Valøen 21 Viftingen 20 Vipeto mellem  41 Ødegaarden 14 Øen 25 Øvervaldsaasen

Probate Records
Nedre Telemark judicial district *1667-1834 Family History Library *1667-1834 Digitalarkivet

Telemark and Bamble deanery *1696-1806 Family History Library *1696-1806 Digitalarkivet

Probate Register for Holla 1667-1900 at Digitalarkivet.