Varaldsøy Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

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
Earlier censuses see Strandebarm


 * '''1891 census for 1226 Strandebarm og Varaldsøy Digital Archives


 * '''1900 census for Strandebarm og Varaldsøy Digital Archives


 * '''1910 census for Varaldsøy Digital Archives


 * '''1920 census for Varaldsøy Digital Archives

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. A farm name index to volume 2 is found in the following link.

Sandvik, Gitle: Gards- og slektssoge for Varaldsøy : og gardane Femsteinevik, Grønevik, Bergtun og Vestervik. Farm and family book for Varaldsøy. FS Library 948.32/V4 D2

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.