Seim Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
See Hosanger, Alversund and Hamre

Census Records
See Hosanger, Alversund, Hamre

Farm Books
This book is now available as a downloadable PDF file on the internet Alenfit skibreide. It includes farms from Alversund, Sæbø, Lygra, Seim and Hamre parishes and gives a history of the owners until 1814. Under Hordaland County, click on Alenfit skipreie i Hordaland (1968). Hjelmtveit, Nils, 1892-: Bygdebok for Alenfit.

Band II A. Andre opplaget, med 2 hefter innbundet: Tillegg og rettingar.

A genealogy of the people and their farms in Alenfit (from the Viking period, a coastal district whose inhabitants were responsible for manning and equipping a warship) which includes Alversund and Seim plus parts of Sæbø, Lygra and Hamre in Hordaland county.

Contents: v. 1. Gards- og personhistorie fram til kring 1814 -- v. 2a. Gårds- og personhistorie for Seim sokn frå kring 1814 til 1970, med tillegg og rettingar til band I og II A -- v. 2B. Gards- og personhistorie for skulekrinsane Øvstegard og Isdal/Gjervik i tidlegare Hamre kommune i Hordaland frå kring 1814 til og med 2003. FS Library 948.32/A5 D2

Farm Names
94 Breiviken 66 Bøgevold 81 Dalen  70 Elsaas nordre 75 Espeland  73 Fisksæter  94 Gausereid  96 Halsteindal 74 Helland 77 Hjelmtveit 84 Hopland  81 Ikeland nordre  91 Juviken  79 Kapperdal nordre 90 Kjenes 95 Kleivdal  91 Leivestad nordre 68 Li  67 Mongstad 64 Mykletun  89 Neset 90 Nystølen  69 Odderaas 63 Okse lille 62 Okse store  85 Ryland  83 Seim 87 Skaar 61 Skaret 76 Sletten 72 Smedsdal 88 Spurkeland 69 Storstølen  93 Toskeim 86 Totland 83 Treskallen  65 Volle 82 Votne

For a larger list of farm names, click here: http://norsk.nordreisavgs.net/lokhist/lokalhistorie.htm. Under Hordaland County, click on Alenfit skipreie i Hordaland (1968).

Genealogy
Ancestor chart for Oscar Emanuel Hauge from ca. 1881 to 1609 in Norway. Ancestor chart for Oscar Emanuel Hauge, the son of Kornelius Larsen Hauge (b. 1856) and Berta Knutsdtr. Hauge (b. 1859) from Hope in Hordaland county, Norway. Parents were married in 1881. One early ancestor was Nils Olsen Eikeland (1709-1763) the son of Ole Nilsen Eikeland (1653-1713) of Hørland in Seim parish, Hordaland co., and his wife Anna Andersdtr. (1665-1747) of Otterås in Seim parish. Nils Olsen Eikeland married 1743 Anna Monsdtr. Eikeland (1704-1762) of Espeland in Seim parish, Hordaland co., Norway. FS Library Intnl film 1224746 item 6

Probate Records
From 1702-1848: Records are found in Nordhordaland, 1702-1910 judicial district.

1848-1895: Records are found in Midhordaland judicial district which was created from Nordhordaland.

1800-1852: Some of the farms in this parish belonged to Lysekloster Estate. If the probate is not found in the district above look at Hardanger og Voss where the probates for Lysekloster were kept.

1773-1810: Clerical probate records are found in Nordhordaland Deanery.