Kvernes Parish, Møre og Romsdal, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Microfilm at the for Kvernes prestegjeld (clerical district). Contains parish registers for the parishes Kvernes, Bremsnes, Kornstad and Eide. Included Kristiansund and Grip until 1827, Gjemnes until 1893 and Øre until 1747. Parish registers are from 1731-1915.

Digital images are online at Digitalarkivet:

Kvernes / Bremsnes, Grip, Kornstad, Kristiansud, Kvernes: 1737-1845

Kvernes / Bremsnes, Kornstad, Kvernes: 1845-1871

Kvernes / Bremsnes, Grip, Kornstad, Kvernes: 1731-1760

Kvernes / Kvernes: 1753-1830

Kvernes / Bremsnes, Eide, Kornstad, Kvernes 1856-1884

Kvernes / Kvernes: 1731-1830, 1884-1915

Census Records

 * Fogd og sorenskrivers manntall 1664-1666. The 1664-1666 civil census for Kvernes clerical district includes the parishes of Bremsnes, Kristiansund, Kornstad, Eide, Grip, Kvernes and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * Sogneprestens manntall 1664-1666. The 1664-1666 clerical census for Kvernes clerical district includes the parishes of Bremsnes, Kornstad, Kvernes, Grip and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * 1701 census Census (manntall) 1701, no. 11: Nordmøre fogderi and Romsdal fogderi Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Folketellingen den 1ste februar 1801, Norge. The 1801 census for Kvernes clerical district includes the parishes of Kvernes, Bremsnes, Kornstad, Eide, Grip, Gjemnes and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available online at Digital Archives.


 * Folketellingene 1801, 1818-1819, 1825, 1835, 1845, 1855 og 1865 for Tingvoll prestegjeld (Møre og Romsdal). This census for Tingvoll clerical district includes the parishes of Kvernes, Bremsnes, Kornstad, Frei, Gjemnes, Straumsnes, Øre, Tingvoll, Halsa, Åsskard and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * Folketellingen 1825, 1835, 1845, og 1855 for Kvernes prestegjeld (Møre og Romsdal). The 1825, 1835, 1845, 1855 censuses for Kvernes clerical district inlcude the parishes of Kvernes, Bremsnes, Kornstad, Eide, Tingvoll, Stangvik, Surnadal, Sunndal, Kristiansund, Edøy, Aure and are available on microfilm at the Family History Library


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 31te desember 1865. The 1865 census for Kvernes clerical district include the parishes of Kvernes, Kornstad, Bremsnes, Eide, Gjemnes and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available online at Digital Archives as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.
 * 1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * Folketellingen for kongeriget Norge den 31te desember 1875. The 1875 census forKvernes clerical district include the parishes of Kvernes, Kornstad, Bremsnes, Eide and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * 1875 census for Kvernes (Møre og Romsdal) available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * 1891 census for Kvernes (Møre og Romsdal) Kvernes


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 3dje desember 1900. The 1900 census for Kvernes clerical district is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available online at Digital Archives for Kvernes, as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 1ste desember 1910. The 1910 census for Kvernes, Kornstad, Bremsnes and Eide is available online at Digital Archives as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Farm Books
Holten, Endre,Averøy bygdebok, Averøy : Utgitt av Averøy kulturstyre, 1979-. Local history and genealogy for Kvernes parish on Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. FHL 948.35/K2 D2a 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:

11 Afset 14 Bakken  23 Guldset 16 Gulstad  16 Haltbakteigen 15 Heggeset 14 Hoset  24 Kippervik 28 Kjørsvik 28 Klipen 14 Koparkleven 22 Kvernes  29 Leitet  12 Mek 10 Mork 17 Myrset  18 Nedal  21 Opsal 12 Ormhaugen  19 Rokset  13 Skarset 20 Strand 26 Sæteren  27 Trætvik 18 Trøen 25 Trøene  25 Veiset

Probate Records
1668-1877: Probates are found in Nordmøre judicial district.

1697-1812: Clerical probates are found in Nordmøre Deanery