Nordmaling Parish, Västerbotten, Sweden Genealogy

Guide to Nordmaling Parish, Sweden ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

History
Nordmaling parish was broken out around 1480 from Grundsunda parish. The parish was first called Nykyrka but came already during the Middle Ages to change its name to Nordmaling.

1808 erupted from Nordmaling Bjurholm parish. In connection with the formation of Hörnefors parish on 1 May 1913, part of Nordmaling parish (Norrbyn, Sörbyn's parcel with Håknäs outfield and Ängersjö and Mo ångsåg) was transferred to Hörnefors (most of Hörnefors parish area came from Umeå county).

Nordmaling parish was divided on 1 January 1939 into two church registration districts; Nordmaling's church accounting district (Nordmaling's church archives) and Norrfors's church accounting district (see Norrfors' church archives). The division of the parish into two church registration districts remained until the population register was transferred to the tax authorities on 1 July 1991. The districts were abolished in connection with that change.

Nordmaling parish has formed its own pastorate, with the exception of the years 1808-1815 when the parish was the mother parish in a pastorate with Bjurholm parish.

The parish belongs to Ångermanland. By royal proclamation on 21 May 1810, the parish was transferred from Västernorrland County to Västerbotten County.

The villages of Ava, Rönnholm and Kronören or Öresund were transferred during the Middle Ages from Grundsunda parish to Nordmaling parish. However, they are not or only incompletely recorded in the house examination books A I: 1-9 (1704-1835) but are found for this time in Grundsunda house examination books.

According to a royal letter, an area of the homestead Norrfors in Bjurholm was transferred from 1920 to Nordmaling.

According to a royal letter, the land register units Grönnäs, Häggnäs, Långvattnet, Norrfors, Vackerås, Viänget or Ånäset were transferred. Supervised and Söråker from 1944 from Bjurholm to Nordmaling.

Scanned village register can be found in the archive list with an account of whether the village or farm later belonged to Bjurholm parish.

Place Names
Abborrfors, Abborrtjärn, Agnäs, Armsjö, Aspeå, Ava Baggård, Bahlfors, Bastuträsk, Bergsjö, Bjurholm, Bjärten, Brattfors, Brattsbacka, Bredvik, Brunsnäs, Brännland  Djupsjö  Fällfors  Genberg, Gräsmyr(e)  Hallen, Hummelholm, Hyngelsböle, Håknäs, Högbränna, Högland, Hörnsjö  Jansmark, Järnäs  Karlsbäck, Klubbsjö, Klöse, Kronören  Ledusjö, Levar, Långed, Lögdeå  Mariabäck, Mjösjö, Mo, Mullsjö  Nordanbäck, Nordsjö, Norrbyn, Norrmark, Nygård, Nyåker  Olofsfors, Orrböle

Prästgården

Rundvik, Rödviken, Rönnholm

Strömsör, Stavsjö, Stavsjöholm, Storänget, Sunnansjö, Sörbyn Tallberg, Toböle, Torrböle

Vallen, Västansjö Ängersjö  Öre, Öresund, Örsbäck

To see what kind of place it is you will need a Swedish Gazetteer.


 * Surrounding Parishes

Census Records

 * Sweden Household Examination Records (Husförhörslängder)--explanation of this church record which is functionally the census of Sweden.
 * Sweden Household Examination Books, 1840-1947($), index and images. Also on Ancestry.com($), Arkiv Digital ($), and SVAR at Riksarkivet.

Online Database Church Records
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 * at FamilySearch.
 * MyHeritage.com ($),
 * Ancestry.com ($),
 * Arkiv Digital ($), and
 * SVAR at Riksarkivet.

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FamilySearch Library Records
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Military Records

 * Sweden Military Records
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