Asker Parish, Akershus, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Microfilms at the for Asker prestegjeld (clerical district). The parish registers exist from 1726. Asker prestegjeld contains parish registers from Asker (Ascher) parish and the parishes Østre Bærum (Haslum) and Vestre Bærum (Tanum; Bryn) until 1894.

Images of the church books are online at Digitalarkivet.

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 Baliff's Census for Asker prestegjeld included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Film 122977 Item 2 and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images.
 * 1664-1666 Priest's Census for Asker prestegjeld included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Film 122968 Item 2 and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images.


 * 1801 census for Asker prestegjeld included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Film 122989 Item 1 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet. It lists the farm name, person's name, position in the household, age, marital status, and occupation.
 * 1801 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1825 census for Asker prestegjeld included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Film 1694662 Item 11 and online as scanned images at Digitalarkivet. It lists the farmnames, people (often in order of head of household, his wife, children, foster children, servants, tenant farmers, retired people), sex, age, occupation and other miscellaneous information.


 * 1835 census for Asker prestegjeld included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Film 1694661 Item 1 and online as scanned images at Digitalarkivet. Includes the farmnames, name of the people (often in order of head of household, his wife, children, servants and their families etc.), sex, occupation, and some miscellaneous information.


 * 1845 census for Asker prestegjeld included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Film 1694661 Item 2 and online as scanned images at Digitalarkivet. Usually includes the farmnames, name of the people (often in order of the head of household, his wife, children, servants, their families etc.), sex, occupation, and some miscellaneous information.


 * 1855 census for Asker prestegjeld included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Film 1694661 Item 3 and online as scanned images at Digitalarkivet. Usually includes the farmnames, name of the people (often in order of the head of household, his wife, children, servants, their families etc.), sex, occupation, and some miscellaneous information. These records will also in some cases only list farmnames, number of people living on the farm, approximate ages, and how much grain they produced this year.


 * 1865 census for Asker prestegjeld included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Film 123013 Items 1-2 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet. The census contains the persons name, residence, status in the family, occupation, sex, martial status, place of birth, religion if not a member of the state church, and other miscellaneous information. Each book usually contains one clerical district (prestegjeld). In some books there are two clerical districts recorded. The parishes and school districts in each clerical district are listed at the beginning of each book.
 * An extraction of the 1865 census for Asker, Akershus, Norway. It includes an extract of the entries as they appear in the original census and alphabetical indexes by: 1) given names ; 2) surnames ; 3) birthplaces ; and 4) farm names.
 * 1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)
 * 1875 census for Asker prestegjeld included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Films 255606-255609 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet.The census contains the persons name, residence, position in the family, occupation, sex, marital status, year of birth, place of birth, religion if not a member of the state church, and other miscellaneous information.
 * An extraction of the 1875 census for Asker, Akershus, Norway. It includes an extract of the entries as they appear in the original census and alphabetical indexes by: 1> given names; 2> surnames; 3> birthplaces; and 4> farm names.
 * 1875 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1891 census for Asker herred included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Available online as a database at Digitalarkivet.
 * 1891 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1900 census for Asker herred included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Films 275044-275048 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet. The 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.


 * 1910 Census for Asker herred included Asker, Østre and Vestre Bærum parishes. Available online as a database (index only) at Digitalarkivet.
 * The census of 1801, 1865, 1875 (index only), 1891, 1910 (index only) are also available at Ancestry($).

Farm Books
The FamilySearch Library has the following farm books for Asker:

Torgersen, Halvard, Asker, bidrag to bygdens gaardshistorie, Oslo, 1941 FS Library 948.22/A2 D2t. A genealogy of the people and their farms in Asker in Akershus county with some history.

A history of the Blakstad farm in Asker in Akershus county and a genealogy of the families that lived there.

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

60 Aaby, 8 Aannerud, 35 Aastad, 66 Arnestad, 32 Askengen, 1 Asker Præstegaard med Vakaas, 3 Asker vestre, 60 Aspelund 47 Baastad nedre, 90 Badstuen, 12 Bakke, 17 Berg nordre, 32 Berger, 17 Bergsmarken, 16 Bergsæteren, 38 Billingstad, 14 Biterud, 68 Bjørkaas, 57 Bjørkøen, 61 Blakkestad, 55 Bleiker nedre, 55 Bleikerengen, 52 Bondi nordre, 91 Brenna, 9 Brensrud, 75 Briskehaugen, 51 Broen, 29 Bruset, 41 Brønnøen, 86 Buvall, 5 Børgen nordre, 63 Børsholmen 89 Dikemark, 38 Djupendal, 7 Drengsrud, 4 Dæli 77 Eid, 67 Elnes, 89 Eriksrud 13 Finsrud, 93 Fiskumsbraaten, 50 Fusdal 73 Gisle nordre, 78 Gjellum, 51 Grinden, 36 Groset, 75 Gui lille 67 Haakavik, 25 Haga, 50 Hagaløkken, 50 Hallen, 13 Haneval vestre, 22 Haugbu med Fjelken nedre, 85 Hauger, 14 Haugerud, 79 Heggedal, 91 Helsing, 65 Hesleberg, 26 Hofstad, 10 Hogstad, 27 Holmen, 89 Holstein, 8 Huken, 44 Hval, 30 Hvalstad, 54 Hvile, 76 Høibak, 23 Høn vestre 92 Ingelsrud, 94 Jerpaasen, 50 Jørgensløkken, 11 Jøssong 13 Kampenhaug, 38 Kleven, 64 Koia, 56 Konglungen, 59 Krillaas, 29 Ladebraaten, 10 Ladeengen, 52 Lagdalen, 45 Leangen, 53 Leikvold, 13 Limovnhagen, 71 Linlandet, 54 Linløkken, 56 Løkenes, 69 Løvaas 23 Muserudløkken 39 Nes, 40 Nesøen, 42 Nyborg 91 Paaverud, 93 Padderud 85 Raatedalen, 28 Ravnsborg, 43 Reistad, 18 Rustaden nordre, 69 Rustaden søndre 13 Sandbækken, 87 Sebjørnsrud mellem, 82 Sebjørnsrud østre, 20 Sem, 2 Skandsebraaten, 2 Skandseløkken, 2 Skandsen, 81 Skjellestad, 73 Skjerven, 21 Skogum med Fjelken øvre, 34 Skustad, 32 Slæpendengen, 90 Solberg, 95 Solli, 33 Solstad nedre, 73 Staalengen, 86 Steingrimsrud, 16 Stensrud, 37 Stokker, 88 Strømnes, 42 Syverstad, 80 Sætre 46 Teigen, 67 Torp, 31 Torstad, 63 Trosviken, 19 Tveiter 49 Undelstad, 78 Underland 6 Vasbunden, 14 Vassaas, 85 Vestengen, 58 Vettre, 84 Vinnulstad vestre, 14 Vittenberg, 74 Volden, 73 Voldløkken, 51 Vomma, 24 Vægten, 15 Vøien 70 Yggeset 62 Østenstad lille, 71 Østeren

Asker, bidrag til bygdas gårdshistorie Arnestad nedre, Askenengen, Asker Prestegård, Asker, Askerborskogen Bakke, Berg, Berger, Bergsgårdene under Vøyen, Bjerkøya, Bjerkås, Bjerkøya, Bleiker, Bleikerhaugen, Bondi, Borgen, Borgengårdene, Brønnøya, Bråten, Buval under Steingrimsrud, Båstad Daleløkken under Jøssung Eriksrud under Dikemark Finnsrud under Vestre Haneval, Fusdal Gisle Søndre, Gislegårdene, Gjellum, Groset, Guigårdene, Gui, Gupu under Sem Hagaløkka under Fusdal, Hagen, Haneval, Haugbo, Huager, Haugerud, Hogstad, Hougbo, Hovedbølet under Elnes, Hval, Høen, Hakavik Jordet under Vestre Haneval, Jøssong med Bakke Langåra under Brønnøya, Linlandet under Østern Nadderud under Billingstad, Nesgårdene, Nes, Nordengen under Billingstad Pruset Rustad, Rustan Sebjørnsrud, Sem, Setre, Skaugum, Skellestad, Solstad øvre under Sem, Solvang, Stålenga Nedre (nordre Gisle, Øvre), Skjellestad, Stenset under Jøssung Torp Vardåsen under Dikemark, Vasås under Østre Haneval, Venneslund under Koia, Vettre, Vinulstad Østre, Vittenberg under Østre Haneval, Vollen Østenstad, Østenstadgårdene Yggeset Åby, Åstad

Genealogy
Bjengfjend, Olivie Emilie Hansen, 1850-: Consist of genealogical data, 1601-1854, for ancestors of Olivie Emilie (Hansen) Bjengfjent, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestors lived in Asker, Akershus County and in Sigdal parish, Buskerud County, Norway.

FS Library (on film) 673307 item 6

Hansen, Haagen, 1829: Family record book, 1633-1913: Consist of genealogical data, 1633-1913, with research carried out between 1878 and 1926, for ancestry of Haagen Hansen (b. 1829), and that of his wife, Ane (Olsdatter) Hansen (1821-1874). He was a convert of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who immigrated from Denmark to St. George, Utah and she was a convert of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who immigrated from Norway to St. George, Utah. Danish ancestors lived in København and elsewhere in København County, Denmark. Norwegian ancestors lived in Asker and elsewhere in Akershus Cunty, Norway

FS Library (on film) 673291 item 12

Ullmann, Helen Schatvet: Our Knoph/Knoff line in Norway, Denmark, and Prussia: The ancestry of Hans Willumsen (1701-1764), who was born in Toten, Oppland, Norway. He was an illegitimate son of Captain (later Major) Wilhelm Knoph and Mari Ellensdatter from Bjørnerumpen. He married (1) at Hof Kirke in Østre Toten Berte Knudsdatter, daughter of Knud Hansen and Karen Hansdatter in 1727. They had children born in Sukkestad, Væstad and Lie. Berte died at Orderholt in 1739. He married (2) 1740 Marte Olsdatter (d. 1773) of Nes parish. In 1744 family moved to Asker in Akershus county. He died at Hagen, Store Østenstad in Asker parish, Akershus county. He had eight children with his two wives. Wilhelm Friderich Knoph (b.ca. 1676, d. before 1716, the father of the above Hans, and the son of Daniel Knoph and Maren Hansdatter, was probably born at Strømsø (now Drammen), Buskerud, Norway. He married 1703 Elisabeth Sophie Reichwin, daughter of Georg and Catherine Lauritsen Sverdrup. He had five children with his wife, twins with Mari Ellensdatter Bjørnerumpen and a son with Marthe Sophie von Hadelin. Daniel Knoph (1648-1703), father of Wilhelm Friderich, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of Daniel Knoph and Elisabeth Wern. He died at Strømsø (now Drammen), Buskerud, Norway. The earliest ancestor mentioned was Hieronymus Knoph (knoff) of Friedland, Prussia in the early 1500's.

FS Library (on film) 1697545 item 24

Probate Records
1656-1901: Records are found in Aker judicial district.