Varaldsøy Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

Europe Norway Hordaland County Varaldsøy

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

Church Records
See Strandebarm

Census Records
See Strandebarm

Farm Books
Næss, Anders and Kolltveit, Olav, Strandebarm og Varaldsøy i gamal og ny tid, Kvam : Utgjeve av Kvam Herad, 1981. A history of Strandebarm and Varaldsøy in Strandebarm clerical district in Hordaland county with a genealogy of the people and their farms. There are 70 corrections in volume two of this new edition. FHL 948.32/S6 H2n 1981 A farm name index to volume 2 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:

16 Aakre 30 Askesletten 3 Bertun 5 Eikeneset 1 Femsteinevik 32 Flugedal 6 Furhovde 20 Færgevaagen 18 Gjerde ytre 20 Gjuvsland 5 Gravdal 2 Grønevik 4 Haalen 9 Haugstveit 22 Haukaas store 15 Haukenes 31 Hisdalen 28 Kjærevik 10 Leirstein 7 Mundheim 11 Nes 12 Nærnes 29 Sandvik 4 Sauehaalen 21 Skjelnes 27 Svinland 8 Torgestveit 25 Traa ytre 5 Trappene 20 Træet 23 Træet 25 Træet 9 Tveit midtre 23 Tveit ytre 26 Vaage nedre 24 Vaage øvre 4 Vestervik 17 Øfsthus 19 Øie 13 Øierhavn 14 Øineteigene

For a larger list of farms, click below, then click again on the next link:



Probate Records
1668-1887: Records are found in Sunnhordaland judicial district.

1695-1852: For those farms, which were under the Rosendal Estate, records are found in Hardanger og Voss judicial district.

1690-1877: Clerical probate records are found in Sunnhordaland Deanery.