Strandebarm Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Strandebarm, 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 Family History Library for Strandebarm clerical district) contains parish registers for Strandebarm clerical district which includes the parishes: Strandebarm, Varaldsøy and Jondal. The years 1680-1689 are missing. Records available from 1670-1941.

Images of digitized parish registers available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).

Strandebarm: 1670-1726, 1777, 1787-1886

Strandebarm/Jondal: 1727-1908,

Strandebarm/Strandebarm: 1727-1904

Strandebarm/Varaldsøy: 1727-1935

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 Census Fogdens og sorenskriverens manntall Sundhordland fogderi Strandebarm skibrede and Varalsøy parish, Hardanger fogderi Jondal parish. This census was taken by the local civil authorities. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 122979 Item 4 (Strandebarm} and Film 122980 Item 1 (Jondal) and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images (Sunnhordland)(Jondal).


 * 1664-1666 Census Sogneprestenes manntall Sundhordland prosti Strandebarm clerical district with Strandebarm, Varaldsøy and Jondal parishes. This census was taken by the local parish priests. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 122971 Item 3, a printed extraction 948.32/S6 K2p Prestemanntalet for Strandebarm og Varaldsøy 1666 and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images and as a database.


 * 1701 Census Strandebarm clerical district and Jondal parish. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 122983 Item 1 and online at Digitalarkivet as Manntal 1701 for Søndre Bergenhus amt.


 * 1801 Census Strandebarm clerical district includes Strandebarm, Varaldsøy and Jondal parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 123002 Item 2 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1801-telling for 1226 Strandebarm.


 * 1825 Census Strandebarm clerical district Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 1283410 Item 1, 1825 folketelling for Strandebarm prestegjeld (Hordaland) and online at Digitalarkivet as Strandebarm folketelling 1825.


 * 1827 Census Varaldsøy This record includes a list of persons in Varaldsøy parish on the 9 Nov 1827, marriages and deaths for 1827. Film 1283410 Item 1.


 * 1865 Census Strandebarm clerical district includes Strandebarm, Varaldsøy and Jondal parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 123069 Item 1 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1865-telling for 1226 Strandebarm og Varaldsø sogn, 1865-telling for 1227 Jondalen sogn (i Strandebarm prestegjeld).


 * 1875 Census Strandebarm clerical district includesStrandebarm, Varaldsøy and Jondal parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 273460 (Strandebarm and Varaldsøy, Film 273461 (Jondal) and online at Digitalarkivet as 1875-telling for 1226 Strandebarm and Varaldsø parish, 1875-telling for 1227 Jondal.


 * 1900 Census Strandebarm clerical district includes Strandebarm, Varaldsøy and Jondal parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Films 274250-274251 (Strandebarm and Varaldsøy, Films 274333-274334 (Jondal) and online at Digitalarkivet as 1900-telling for 1226 Strandebarm, 1900-telling for 1227 Jondal.


 * 1910 Census The 1910 census search at Digitalarkivet


 * The census of 1865, 1875 (partial), 1900 and 1910 are also available at the Norwegian Historical Data Center.

Farm Books
Næss, Anders and Kolltveit, Olav, Strandebarm og Varaldsøy i gamal og ny tid, Kvam : Utgjeve av Kvam Herad, 1981. A history of Strandebarm and Varaldsøy in Strandebarm clerical district in Hordaland county with a genealogy of the people and their farms. There are 70 corrections in volume two of this new edition. FHL 948.32/S6 H2n 1981 A farm name index to volume 2 is found in the following link.

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

41 Aase ytre 44 Bakke vestre 53 Berge ytre 66 Birkenes 42 Breievne 58 Brekke ytre 51 Bru nedre 47 Børseim indre  35 Dysvik  59 Engedal  67 Fosse lille 57 Fosse store  37 Gjerde indre 49 Grøning  55 Haabrekke 63 Haukaas lille 62 Haukaas øvre 34 Havn 72 Hjartnes 41 Holmedal  75 Koltveit 77 Kysnes  43 Lambedal 69 Linge lille 76 Ljones 76 Ljonestangen 45 Lødalen  48 Murlehagen  51 Naustbakken 40 Nygaard  39 Oma indre  71 Pintelvik 54 Præstegaarden  48 Rise 68 Røen 71 Røirvik  61 Sjusæter 47 Skarpestykket 56 Skogesel 64 Solbjør 53 Spandsteigen  50 Tangeraas 33 Tegland 60 Toften 65 Tordal 47 Træet 36 Træsnes 51 Tuemyren 73 Tveit indre  74 Ugletveit  36 Viken  52 Øvreholmen

For a larger list of farms, click below, then click again on the next link:



Probate Records
1668-1887: Records are found in Sunnhordaland judicial district.

1695-1852: For those farms, which were under the Rosendal Estate, records are found in Hardanger og Voss judicial district.

1690-1877: Clerical probate records are found in Sunnhordaland Deanery.