Barbu Parish, Aust-Agder, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Barbu, Aust-Agder, Norway ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Church Records

 * See Austre Moland See also Holt


 * Digitized parish registers available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)

Census Records
See Austre Moland for earlier census records.


 * 1891: This census is available online in a searchable database at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * 1900: The 1900 census for Barbu clerical district is available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City. This census contains the persons name, sex, resident or temporary resident, temporarily absent and where person is, position in the family, marital status, occupation, year of birth, place of birth, citizenship, religion, and other miscellaneous information. Also available online at Digital Archives (Digitalarkivet).


 * 1910: The 1910 census for Barbu clerical district Available online at Digital Archives (Digitalarkivet), as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre at the University of Tromsø in Norway.

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

5 Barbu, 6 Bjørnebu, 9 Fosbæk,  7 Hafstad, 3 Hoveheien,  11 Krøgenes,  3 Langsæ,  8 Songe, 10 Stea, 2 Strømsbu østre,  1 Torbjørnsbu, 4 Torsbudalen,  3 Vigen, 8 Vindholmen

Probate Records
Nedenes judicial district *1640-1824 FamilySearch Library *1698-1826 Digitalarkivet

Nedenes judicial district to 1824 *1852-1892 FamilySearch Library *1852-1904 Digitalarkivet

Nedenes deanery *1693-1811 FamilySearch Library *1693-1811 Digitalarkivet