Fusa Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Fusa, 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 FamilySearch Library for Fusa clerical district contains parish registers for Fusa, Hålandsdal and Strandvik parishes with Sundvor chapel. They were separated from Os clerical district in 1855. For earlier records see Os clerical district. Records available from 1669-1967.

Digital images of parish records are online for Fusa, Hålandsdal, Strandvik, and Sundvor.

Fusa / Fusa, Hålandsdal Strandvik: 1855-1879

Fusa / Fusa: 1861-1938

Fusa / Strandvik: 1861-1938

Fusa / Hålandsdal:1861-1930

For earlier records see Os

Census Records
For early census records before 1865 see Os


 * 1801 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1865 Census Fusa clerical district included Strandvik and Hålandsdal parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library and as a database online at Digitalarkivet 1865-telling for 1241 Fuse.
 * 1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1875 Census Fusa clerical district included Strandvik and Hålandsdal parishes. Available through Digitalarkivet and on microfilm images from the FamilySearch Library.
 * 1875 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1891 Census The 1891 census search at Digitalarkivet
 * 1891 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1900 Census Fusa clerical district included Strandvik and Hålandsdal parishes. Microfilm images are available at the FamilySearch Library Films 274278-274279 and as a database online at Digitalarkivet 1900-telling for 1241 Fuse.


 * 1910 Census The 1910 census search at Digitalarkivet


 * 1917 Census Fusa clerical district not searchable The 1917 census at Digitalarkivet


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

Farm Books
Skaathun, O.B.,Soga for Fusa : Hålandsdal og Strandvik, Bergen : A.S. Centraltrykkeriet, 1961-1967. A genealogy of the people and their farms and a history of Fusa clerical district which includes Hålandsdal and Strandvik in Hordaland county. Farm name indexes to volumes 2-4 are found in the following links. , ,

Note: Vol 2 pertains to Fusa parish, Vol 3 pertains to Hålandsdal parish, Vol 4 pertains to Strandvik parish.

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

15 Aadland søndre, 1 Aspeviken, 24 Austestad, 28 Bakke, 25 Berge midtre, 7 Boge nedre, 1 Bogstranden,  16 Dale,  22 Eikeland nedre,  36 For,  6 Gangstø indre, 10 Gangstø ytre, 9 Gaukstad, 35 Gjerde, 30 Gjerevik nedre,  33 Haaland vestre, 18 Hafskaar, 37 Haga søndre, 19 Helland, 13 Holmefjord nordre, 2 Hope,  21 Koldal, 3 Kolleid, 27 Kvaale,  39 Lilleli, 20 Lundervik,  17 Matland,  34 Opsal,  31 Præstegaarden,  10 Røsvold,  12 Samnøen indre, 40 Skjørsand, 38 Storli,  4 Tveiten søndre,  5 Vafet, 26 Vandvik,  32 Øfstestue

For a longer list of farm names, click here:, then click on the next link as well.

Probate Records
1668-1848: Records are found in Sunnhordaland 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 the Rosendal Estate or Lysekloster Estate. If the probate is not found in the district above look at Hardanger og Voss where the probates for Rosendal and Lysekloster were kept.

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