Evanger Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Microfilm of parish registers available at the FamilySearch Library for (clerical district). Contains the parish registers of Evanger parish with Nesheim chapel. They were separated from Voss clerical district in 1891. For earlier records see Voss clerical district. Records available from 1855-1917.

Digital images of parish records are online for Evanger at Digitalarkivet.

Voss / Evanger: 1855-1887

Evanger, Voss: 1877-1899

Evanger / Evanger: 1892-1941

For earlier records see Voss

Census Records
See Voss and Vossestrand for earlier censuses.


 * '''1891 census for Evanger Digital Archives.


 * 1900 Census Evanger clerical district Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library FamilySearch and online at Digital Archives.


 * 1910 Census at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


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


 * 1920 Census Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * 1942-1952 Municipal Census Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)

Farm Books
Schjærven, Lars and Gjerdåker, Johannes, Evanger-boka : gards- og ættesoge, Voss : Voss bygdeboknemnd, 1982-1984. A genealogy of the people and their farms in Evanger in Hordaland county. Farm name indexes for volumes 1 and 2 are found at the following links. ,

Evanger Vol. 1 on the internet. It included the following farms. Bindingbø, Bergo, Brakestad, Ekse,  Fosse,  Gulbrå,   Nesheim,  Trefall.

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

29 Aarhus 39 Akslebjørg 3 Aldalen 33 Berge 73 Berge 16 Berstad 32 Binningebø 45 Bjørgaas 65 Bolstad med Skonsvik 8 Bolstadøren 35 Brakestad 77 Brekken 28 Brekkhus 19 Brunborg 37  Ekse 43 Elge  18 Fadnes 20 Flansaas 79 Fosse 31 Fosse i Eksingedalen 6 Fyre  13 Gjeilene 49 Gjeitle 38 Guldbraa  72 Hatlestad 1 Hermundsdal 10 Horveid 7 Horvik 50 Hosaas 56 Hyljeraas 59 Hærnes  63 Jørnevik  71 Kaldestad 17 Kjenes 48 Kvilekvaal  26 Langeland 75 Li (1ste 22 Luren  44 Mugaas 57 Mykletveit 4 Mæland 21 Mæstad  60 Nakken 34 Neseim  66 Rasdalen nedre 24 Ro 9 Ronge 14 Runseberg 69 Røidland 68 Rørbakken 12 Rørge  25 Sevaldstad 52 Skjerveggen 54 Skjerven nedre med Heggøen 53 Skjerven øvre 42 Skorve 70 Smaabrekkene 74 Solbjørg 55 Soleraas 47 Steine 40 Styve 51 Svangen  27 Teiglandslien 30 Teiten 23 To 36 Trefald 2 Tyssen  64 Vassenden 62 Vike lille 61 Vike store 58 Væle 46  Ædal 41 Ævanger 41 Ævangerhaugen  5 Øfstedal med Rørbakken 78 Øiene 15 Ørreviken

For longer lists of farms, click below, then click again on the next link:





Genealogy
Fadnes, Leif S., 1970-: Fadnes boken: en familie fra garden Fadnes, Evanger. Descendants of Knut Tomasson Fadnes (1859-1930) born in Fadnes, Evanger, Hordaland co. a son of Tomas Hille and Ingebjørg Olsdatter Fadnes. He married 1879 Anna Johannesdatter Ro (1858-1949) born in Ro, Evanger to Johannes Larsson Øvstedal and Ingeborg Nilsdatter Skylje. Descendants live all over Norway. FS Library 929.2481 F126

Available through the FamilySearch Catalog

Probate Records
1695-1881: Records are found in Hardanger og Voss judicial district.

1702-1910: Some probates may be found in Nordhordaland judicial district.