Hammerfest Parish, Finnmark, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Hammerfest, 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 for Hammerfest prestegjeld (clerical district). Hammerfest became a city around 1870. Contains parish registers from the parishes Hammerfest and Kvalsund. United with Måsøy from 1813 to 1856. The years in book 3 are out of sequence. Records available for the years 1743-1918.

See also Måsøy

Digitized images of parish registers avaiable at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives). Hammerfest: 1743-1939 Hammerfest/Hammerfest bysockn: 1862-1939 Hammerfest/Hammerfest landsockn: 1863-1939 Hammerfest/Hammerfest sokn: 1743-1869 Hammerfest/Kvalsund: 1743-1939 Hammerfest/Måsøy: 1806-1877

Census Records

 * Folketelling for Norge, 1 February 1801. The 1801 census for Hammerfest include Hammerfest and Kvalsund and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.  Also available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Folketælling for Norge, 31 December 1865. The 1865 census includes Hammerfest and Kvalsund and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.  Also availalble online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre. 


 * Folketælling for Norge, 31 December 1865 (another filming). The 1865 census for Hammerfest is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * Folketælling for Norge, 31 December 1875. The 1875 census for Hammerfest is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.  Also avaialble online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * The 1875 census for Sørøysund in Hammerfest rural district is available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * 1891: Folketælling for Norge, 1 January 1891.  The 1891 census for Hammerfest herred is available in a scanned format online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Folketælling for Norge, 3 December 1900. The 1900 census include Hammerfest and Kvalsund and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.  Also available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) and at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * 1900 census for Sørøysund (in Hammerfest) is available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Folketellingen for Norge, 1 December 1910. The 1910 census for Hammerfest is available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives); as well at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Genealogy
'''Boomer, Helen Lillian Foss, 1917-: Satrum family history. '''Ole Lauritz Larsen Satrum (1867-1944) immigrated from Norway to Chicago, Illinois, married Oline (Oleanna) Sønvisen in 1893, and settled in Calumet, Michigan, moving to Amery, Wisconsin in 1909, and immigrated to Moose Jaw, Saskatschewan about 1911. Descendants lived in Saskatschewan, British Columbia and elsewhere. Some descendants remained in the United States, living in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in the parishes of Alta and Hammerfest and elsewhere in Finnmark county, Norway.

FHL 929.271 Sa83b

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Probate Records
1686-1844: Records are found in Finnmark judicial district.

1841-1873: Records are found in Hammerfest judicial district.

Historical Society
Hammerfest Historielag