Vartdal Parish, Møre og Romsdal, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Contain minister and sexton records for Vartdalstrand (Vartdal) parish. Ørsta with Vartdalstrand parish became its own clerical district in 1900.

Ørsta / Vartdalstranda: 1878-1944

See also Ørsta clercial district.

See also Ulstein and Volda clerical districts.

Census Records

 * Vicar's Census 1664-1666, no. 26: Sunnmøre deanery Digita Archives.


 * Bailiff's Census 1664-1666, no. 16: Romsdal fogderi and Sunnmøre fogderi Digita Archives.


 * Census (manntall) 1701, no. 10: Sunnmøre fogderi Digita Archives.


 *  1801, 1865, 1875, 1891 Census see Ulstein clerical district.


 * 1900 census for Vartdal Digita Archives.


 * 1910 census for Vartdal Digita Archives.

See also Ulstein, Volda and Ørsta clerical districts.

Farm Books
Buset, Johannes, Vartdalsoga, Vartdal : Utgitt av Vartdal bygdeboknemnd, 1964-1985, 1999. A genealogy of the people and their farms and a history of Vartdal in Møre og Romsdal county. FHL 948.35/V4 D2b A farm name index to volume 1 is found in the following link.

Standal, Ragnar, Mot nye heimland: utvandringa frå Hjørundfjord, Vartdal og Ørsta, Volda : Utvandrarnemnda, 1985. A history of the people who emigrated from Hjørundfjord, Vartdal, and Ørsta in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway to the United States of America. FHL 948.35 W2s A farm name index to this book 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:

102 Aarset 101 Aarsetbakken 97 Aarskog 90 Barstad 110 Bjørndalen 105 Buset  89 Erdal  86 Festøen 109 Flaaskjær  109 Heggehjelle 87 Hjellene  104 Kvien  92 Lynge  95 Masdal 91 Melbøen 103 Myklebost  107 Remmen 87 Rommestrand 94 Rot 93 Rotenes  108 Saltre 99 Sætre 101 Sætsbakken  96 Vartdal nordre 106 Vartdal søndre 88 Voldene  98 Ødegaarden 100 Øie

Probate Records
1689-1801: Probates are found in Sunnmøre judicial district.

1799-99: Probates are found in Søre Sunnmøre judicial district.

1707-1807: Clerical probates are found in Sunnmøre Deanery