Edøy Parish, Møre og Romsdal, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Edøy clerical district contains parish registers from the parishes Edøy, Brattvær, Hopen and Tustna. Brattvær and Hopen were separated from Aure clerical district in 1749, and Edøy became its own clerical district to include the parishes: Edøy, Hopen, and Brattvær.Tustna became its own clerical district in 1867 parish in 1867.

The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the.

Digital images are online at Digitalarkivet:

Edøy / Edøy: 1751-1765, 1767-1931

Edøy / Brattvær: 1751-1765, 1767-1950

Edøy / Hopen: 1751-1765, 1767-1947

Edøy / Tustna: 1850-1879

Census Records

 * 1664-1666: Sogneprestenes manntall 1664-1666. The 1664-1666 census for Edøy clerical district is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Includes the parishes of  Edøy, Brattvær, Hopen and Aure. Also available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Bailiff's Census 1664-1666, no. 17: Nordmøre fogderi Digital Archives.


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


 * 1801: Folketellingen den 1ste februar 1801, Norge. The 1801 census for Edøy clerical district is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Includes the parishes of Edøy, Brattvær and Hopen. Also available online at the Digital Archives.


 * Folketellingen 1835 and 1845 for Edøy. The 1835 and 1845 census for Edøy and Aure is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Includse mainly statistical information. Census records for Kvernes, Tingvoll, Surnadal, Stangvik, Sunndal, Kristiansund, Edøy and Aure clerical districts. Includes mainly statistics, but the censuses for Kvernes 1825 and 1855 gives the name of the farm, persons name, age, occupation and some miscellaneous information.


 * 1865: Folketellingen den 31te desember 1865. The 1865 census for Edøy clerical district is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Includes the parishes of Edøy, Hopen and Brattvær. 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


 * 1875: Folketellingen for kongeriget Norge den 31te desember 1875. The 1875 census for Edøy clerical district is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Includes the parishes of Edøy, Hopen and Brattvær. Also avvailable online at Digital Archives Digitalarkivet.


 * 1891 census for Edøy (Møre og Romsdal) Digital Archives


 * 1900: Folketelling for Norge den 3dje desember 1900. The 1875 census for Edøy clerical district is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Includes the parishes of  Hopen, Brattvær and Edøy. Also available online at Digital Archives, as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * 1910: Folketellinge for Norge den 1ste desember 1910. The 1910 census for Edøy is available online at the Digital Archives, as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Farm Books
Berf, Gudmund Frode, Berg, Aashild, Skjølberg, Erlind, Fredly, Kjell Egil,Smøla bygdebok, Trondheim : Utgitt av Smøla kulturstyre, 1981-1998. A history and genealogy of the people and their farms in Smøla in Møre og Romsdal county. FHL 948.35/S10 D2s A farm name index to volume 2 is found in the following link.

Contents: v. 1. Ålmenn bygdesoge for Smøla : utviklinga på Smøla fram til år 1700 / av Gudmund Frode Berg. Gards- og ættesoge for Smøla : Ytre Roksvåg-Vikan / av Aashild Berg og Erling Skjølberg -- v. 2. Gards- og ættesoge for Hellesfjord - Kråkvær / av Aashild Berg -- v. 3. Utviklinga på Smøla gjennom to hundre år 1665-1865 : gards- og ættesoge for Sandvær - Tranøy / av Gudmund Frode Berg -- v. 4. Gards- og ættesoge for Klakkan - Skomsøy / av Gudmund Frode Berg og Aashild Berg -- v. 5-7. Gards- og ættesoge for Vestmøla / av Nils Tore Leivdal og Kjell Fredly -- v. 8 og 9. Gards- og ættesoge for Veiholmen / av Kjell Fredly -- v. 10. Gards- og ættesoge for Hopen / av Kjell Fredly -- v. 11. Gards- og ættesoge for Steinsøysund og Frostadheia / av Kjell Fredly.

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

17 Arnøen, 4 Bremnes,  13 Edøen, 16 Ellevsøen,  8 Gjernes, 10 Glasøen,  6 Hellesfjord, 15 Hestøen,  24 Jøen, 23 Jøstølen,  26 Kraakvær, 14 Kuli,  9 Lerviken,  7 Nælviken,  11 Otterholmen,  21 Rangnes, 25 Ringsøen med Draget, 19 Risdalen, 2 Rokstad, 3 Roksvaag indre, 18 Rosvold,  22 Skjelberg, 19 Stranden, 20 Strømmen,  19 Trætneset, 19 Trætviken, 12 Tyrhaug,  5 Vikan,  19 Ødegaarden

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

1697-1812: Clerical probates are found in Nordmøre Deanery