Valestrand Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Digital images of parish records are online for for Valestrand. See Sveio and Stord before 1865.

Census Records
1865 and prior see Stord

1875 and after see Sveio


 * 1891 Census The 1891 census search at Digitalarkivet


 * 1900 Census for Valestrand is online at Digitalarkivet 1900-telling for 1217 Valestrands.


 * 1910 Census The 1910 census search Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * 1920 census for Valestrand available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * 1942-1953 Municiipal Censuses for Valestrand Kommune available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


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

Farm Books
Steinsbø, Simon, Gards- og ættesoge for Sveio, Sveio: Sveio Kommune, c1986 - c1987. A genealogy of the people and their farms in Sveio and Valestrand in Hordaland county, Norway. Contents: b. 1. Gamle Valestrand kommune -- b. 2. Skulekrinsane Bua, Vikse, Vandaskog og Sveio -- b. 3. Lid skulekrins og gamle Vestre Vikebygd. Farm name indexes to volumes 2 and 3 are found in the following links. ,

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

17 Berge 16 Breistig 22 Brokenes 3 Eidsvaag 33 Eikeland nedre 7 Enstavold  30 Fagerland 25 Flaatene  4 Gramshaug  28 Hagaviken 5 Hauge 15 Haugeland 6 Haugsgjerd 1 Hausbu 26 Hope  38 Lien 24 Lier nordre 27 Lindaas  35 Mjaanes  10 Nappen  2 Ravneberg 7 Reset 20 Rinden  27 Skipeviken 10 Spandsteigen 28 Storhaug 23 Strømøen 11 Stølen  13 Traavaas 5 Træet 11 Tveite  14 Ulveraaker  8 Valen nedre 12 Vaslien 32 Vestvik 31 Vestviksætre 19 Vihovde nedre 28 Vike 29 Viken  10 Økland indre 36 Økland ytre 37 Øklandsvaag 21 Ørevik

For longer lists of farms, click below, then click again on the next link.





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

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