Meland Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
See Alversund and Hamre

Census Records

 * 1865 Census for Hamre, Alversund, Åsane, and Meland Microfilm copies are at the FamilySearch Library on Film 123072 Item 3. It is available as a searchable database at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1875 Census for Meland (Mæland), Hamre is available as a searchable database at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1891 Census for Meland (Mæland) available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1900 Census for Alversund, Seim, and Meland. Microfilm copies are at the FamilySearch Library on Films 274311 and 274312. It is available as a searchable database at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * 1910 Census for Meland (Mæland) available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * 1920 Census for Meland (Mæland) Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * 1917, 1939-1945 Municipal Censuses for Meland Kommune available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * 1926-1980, 1954-1980 Fishermen Census for Meland 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
Kleiveland, Geir, 1948-: Homlong, Beate, 1965-: Mellom bakkar og berg: gard og ætt i Meland.

Bygdebøkene inneheld gards- og ættesoge for alle dei 50 matrikkelgardane og menneska som har budd der. Ættesogene - folket på garden - har grunding informasjon om alle familiane som har budd på dei ulike gardane, frå 1500-talet og fram til 2004. Band I omfattar gardane nord på Holsnøy. Gardane søraust på øya, og Flatøy, finn ein i band II, medan gardane på vestsida av Holsnøy er omtala i band III.

Farm histories and genealogies of families living in Meland, Hordaland co., Norway from the 1500s to 2004. Med register i hver bok. FS Library 948.32/M1 D2

Luker, Elna Fløisand: Melands slekter: opplysninger fra Hamre kirkebøker, Nordland skifteprotokoller og panteregistre etc. A genealogy of some families from Meland in Hamre clerical district in Hordaland county. Includes extracts from church, probate, and court records. FS Library 948.32/M1 D2

Farm Names
36 Aadland nordre 1 Aasbø 20 Birkevoldene 34 Bjørndal 17 Bjørnestad 7 Brakstad indre  21 Dale nedre 19 Dalstøen  14 Erstad 40 Espetveit  5 Fløksand 25 Fosse 23 Frekhaug  39 Gaustad 28 Grasdal 35 Gripsgaard  31 Haatoft 2 Hanevik 30 Hestdal 29 Hestnes 9 Hjartaas 10 Holme 15 Hopland  10 Knappen  24 Langeland 4 Lervik  22 Mjaatveit 27 Moldeklev 16 Mæland 32 Mørtveit  23 Nordregaarden  38 Refskar 13 Røisæter  19 Sakstad nedre 33 Sjurdal 41 Skarpeneset 3 Stien 27 Stølen 26 Sundet  15 Træet 12 Tveiten nedre  8 Volle

Genealogy
Irvine, Fredna Tweedt, 1910-: Brakstad, Albert John, 1909-: A Norwegian and American family- Myksvoll, Tweedt, Tweet.

Cover title: Myksvoll, Teedt, Tweet.

Christian Jonsen (1813-1895) of Myksvoll, son of Jon Kristensen and Synneve Hansdtr, married Ambjørg Johannesdtr in 1839, and moved to Myksvoll farm near Bergen, Norway, where they lived for about thirteen years before immigrating to Walnut Grove, Minnesota. The farm was left to a son, John Christiansen (1840-1919), whose descendants assumed the name of the farm--Myksvoll--as a surname. Descendants in Norway lived chiefly near Bergen, Bergen County and also in Meland parish, Hordaland County, Norway. Descendants in the United States (using the surname Tweedt, Tweet, or Tweed) lived in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and elsewhere.

Includes index.

Includes Brakstad, Iversen (Iverson), McCormick, Peterson, Shafer and related families. FS Library 929.273 M994. Available through the FamilySearch Catalog

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.