Torsken Parish, Troms, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
contains parish registers for the parishes Berg and Torsken. The church books begin in 1783.

Parish heading list shows the Norwegain headings on the parish records with an English translations for each of the different forms used throughout the records beginning in 1814. Prior to that time the records were kept in a journal format which varies with each parish.

Digital images of the church books are online at Digitalarkivet.


 * Berg and Torsken clerical district / Berg and Torsken parish: 1783-1945; Engagements, 1887-1898
 * Berg and Torsken clerical district / Senja Nikkelverk: 1877-1887

Census Records

 * '''Vicar's Census 1664-1666, no. 36: Lofoten and Vesterålen deanery, Senja deanery and Troms deanery Digital Archives


 * '''Bailiff's Census 1664-1666, no. 20: Modern Nordland county, modern Troms county and modern Finnmark county Digitsal Archives


 * '''Census (manntall) 1701, no. 19: Senja and Tromsø fogderi Digital Archives


 * Ekstraskattemanntallet 1763 Senja fogderi. The 1763 tax census for Senja fogderi includes the parishes of Astafjord, Trondenes, Kvæfjord, Bjarkøy, Lenvik, Hillesøy, Torsken, Tranøy, Berg and Mefjord and is available on microfilm at the


 * 1801-telling for Torsken is also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet.


 * 1865, 1875, 1891, 1900, see Berg clerical district.


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 1te desember 1910. The 1910 census for Torsken clerical district is available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives), and at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Probate Records
1706-1877 Senja judicial district.

1776-1809 Troms County judicial district.

1697-1824 Troms and Senja deanery.

Farm Books

 * by Arthur Brox. A history of Berg and Torsken in Berg clerical district in Troms county and a genealogy of the people and their farms. Text in Norwegian. A farm name index to this book is found in the following link. [[Image:948.452-B4 H2b v1 - TORSKEN 1.pdf]]

The farm number and name of the farms listed in Oluf Rygh Farm Name Index in about 1900 were as follows:

Farm Names
38 Aarberg, 24 Bakke, 18 Ballesvik, 21 Barbogen, 32 Botn, 24 Bugten, 40 Bunkan,  35 Finnes, 39 Flakstad,  36 Giske, 29 Grundfarnes, 22 Gryllefjord, 23 Gryllefjordbotn,  42 Halvardsøen, 24 Haugen, 27 Holmen,  30 Kaldfarnes, 26 Kjerringvik, 25 Kongsnes,  37 Leikvik med Blaastrand, 40 Lomsnes,  31 Meby,  41 Rødsand,  20 Sandsvik, 34 Sifjord, 40 Steinjorden, 40 Stordalen,  19 Teistevik, 24 Torsken,  33 Veimanden, 24 Værneset,  28 Ørja

Berg og Torsken Bygdebok Volume I

Alfheim, Bakke, Bakken, Bakkevoll, Ballesvik, Ballesvikbotn, Barbogen, Berg, Berglund, Bergsbotn, Bergsøyan, Botn, Brattland, Bukta, Bunkan, Buskenes, Bø, Bøvær, Doktorlunden, Elvebakken, Elvejord, Elvejorda, Elveland, Elvelund, Elvemo, Elvevoll, Ersfjord, Fagerheim, Finnes, Finnsæter, Firkanten, Fiskenes, Fjellborg, Fjellet, Flakstad, Flaten, Foss, Fredheim, Fredlund, Fremtiden, Frydenlund, Giska, Giske, Grehopneset, Grunnfarnes, Gryllefjord, Gryllefjordbotn, Halvardsøy, Hamn, Haugen, Haugland, Haugvoll, Heggelia, Hofsøy, Holmen, Hopen, Huldhaugen, Hvitsten, Håverjord, Indregård, Innergård, Innerholmen, Kaldfarnes, Kampevoll, Katteberg, Kjerringvik, Klokkargarden, Knarvik, Kongsnes, Kveldro, Kvitsteinnes, Laberget, Landsletta, Langbakken, Lavoll, Leikvik, Leirbakmo, Leirstein, Leirvoll, Lenningsbakken, Litlebø, Lomsnes, Lottenes, Lutnes, Lyngan, Løvdal, Medby, Medfjord, Medfjordbotn, Mellomgård, Middagsletta, Midtgård, Mikalparten, Mo, Moen, Mollnes, Myra, Myrbakk, Myre, Myrland, Myrlund, Myrseth, Myrvoll, Mølnevik, Nerland, Nesland, Nikkelverket, Nordengen, Nordfjord, Nordheim, Nyland, Nylund, Nymo, Nøysomheten, Prestegården, Rabben, Roligheten, Rødsand, Sandbakk, Sandsvik, Sandsøyra, Senjavåg, Sifjord, Sildevik, Sjølund, Sjøvollen, Skaland, Skjellelv, Skoglund, Skognes, Skrevoll, Sletten, Slettevoll, Slettstrand,Slettvoll, Smevik, Smibakken, Solbakken, Solheim, Sollia, Solum, Solvang, Sommerset, Stamnesvika, Steinbakk, Steinfjord, Steinhaug, Steinheim, Steinjorda, Steinli, Stordalen, Strand, Strandbakken, Strandby, Straumsnes, Sæter, Teistevik, Tofte, Toften, Torsken, Undland, Utstrand, vangen, Veimannen, Vik, Vikan, Vollen, Værnes, Værselbakken, Vårhaug, Vårlund, Ytre Berg, Ytre lavoll, Ytre Skjellelv, Yttergård

Genealogy
'''Kleiva, Ivar, 1903: noko om Teodora Nilsen og Hilmar Pettersens forfeder, ætt og etterkomarar. '''A genealogy of the ancestors and descendants of Teodora Jakobsdatter Nilsen born in 1881 on Elvebakken in Dyrøy, Troms, Norway and died 1933 and Hilmar Pettersen born in 1881 on Gryllefjord in Torsken, Troms, Norway. Died 1940.

FS Library 929.2481 A1

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