Stavern Parish, Vestfold, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Stavvern clerical district contains parish registers from Stavern (Fredriksværn) parish. It was separated from Brunlanes clerical district in 1751. Earlier church records were burned. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the

Digital images are online at Digitalarkivet:

Stavern: 1756-1967

Census Records

 * Vicar's Census 1664-1666, no. 11: Brunlanes deanery Digitalarkivet.


 * Bailiff's Census 1664-1666, no. 5: Modern Buskerud county and modern Vestfold county Digital Archives


 * Census (manntall) 1701, no. 2: Solør, Odal og Østerdal fogderi and Larvik grevskap Digitalarkivet.


 * 1801: Folketelling 1 Feb 1801, Norge. The 1801 census for Stavern prestegjeld is available on microfilm and microfiche at the Family History Library.  Also available online at Digitalarkivet.
 * 1801 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1865: Folketælling 31 December 1865. The 1865 census for Stavern (Fredriksvern) prestegjeld (clerical district) is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.  Also available online at Digitalarkivet; as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.
 * 1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1875: Folketælling for kongeriget Norge den 31te December 1875. The 1875 census for Stavern (Fredriksvern) prestegjeld (clerical district) is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available online at Digitalarkivet as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre
 * 1875 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1885: Folketelling 1885. Available online at Digitalarkivet.


 * 1891: Folketelling 1891. Available online at Digitalarkivet


 * 1900: Folketælling for Norge, 3 Dec 1900. The 1900 census for Stavern (Fredriksvern) prestegjeld (clerical district) is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.  Also available online at Digitalarkivet as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * 1910: Folketellingen for Norge den 1 ste desember 1910. The 1910 census for Stavern (Fredriksvern) is available online at Digitalarkivet; as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Farm Names
2 Auserød 1 Fredriksværns Grunde  1 Risøen  4 Staværn 3 Svenner  5 Torsrød

Probate Records
Larvik judicial district *1661-1851 Family History Library

Larvik deanery *1688-1801 Family History Library

Probate collections for Stavern on Digitalarkivet