Kvam Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Microfilm of parish registers available at the Family History Library for Kvam clerical district contains parish registers for the parishes Kvam, Vikøy and Øystese (Østensøe). Records available from 1690-1931.

Digital images of parish records are online for Kvam, Vikøy, and Øystese.

Kvam (Vikør) clerical district

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 Census Fogdernes og sorenskrivernes manntall Hardanger fogderi Øistese (Øystese) skibrede Øystese, Kvam and Vikøy parishes. This census was taken by the local civil authorities. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 122980 Item 1 and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images.


 * 1664-1666 Census Sogneprestenes manntall Hardanger prosti Vikøy (Kvam) clerical district with Øystese, Kvam and Vikøy parishes. This census was taken by the local parish priests. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 122971 Item 4 and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images.


 * 1701 Census Kvam clerical district with Øystese, Kvam and Vikøy parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 122983 Item 1 and online at Digitalarkivet as Manntal 1701 for Søndre Bergenhus amt.


 * 1801 Census Kvam clerical district with Øystese, Kvam and Vikøy parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 123002 Item 2 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1801-telling for 1238 Wigøer.
 * 1801 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1825 Census Kvam clerical district with Øystese, Kvam and Vikøy parishes. Available at Digitalarkivet and microfilm images through the Family History Library Film 1283409 Item 7.


 * 1865 Census Kvam clerical district with Øystese, Kvam and Vikøy parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 123069 Item 3 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1865-telling for 1238 Vikør.
 * 1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1875 Census Kvam clerical district with Øystese, Kvam and Vikøy parishes. Available at Digitalarkivet and microfilm images from the Family History Library Film 273462.
 * 1875 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1891 Census The 1891 census search at Digitalarkivet
 * 1891 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)
 * 1900 Census Kvam clerical district with Øystese, Kvam and Vikøy parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Films 274331-274332 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1865-telling for 1238 Vikør (Kvam).


 * 1910 Census The 1910 census search at Digitalarkivet


 * The census of 1865, 1875 (partial), 1900 and 1910 are also available at the Norwegian Historical Data Center.

Farm Books
Torpe, Lars H., Ættarbok for Kvam, Kvam : Utgjeve av Kvam herad, 1957-1973. A genealogy of the people and their farms in Vikøy and Øystese in Kvam clerical district in Hordaland county. Volumes 1-2 include early years to 1900 and volumes 3-4 cover the years 1900 to 1965. FHL 948.32/K1 D2t Farm name indexes for these volumes are found in the following links. ,, ,

Farm Names
For lists of farm names, click on each link below, then click again on the link provided:

Vikøy parish 1:

Vikøy parish 2:

Øystese parish 1:

Øystese parish 2:

Probate Records
1695-1881: Records are found in Hardanger og Voss judicial district.