Vatne Parish, Møre og Romsdal, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Church and sexton records for Vatne parish. Vatne parish belonged to Borgund clerical district from 1589 until 1858, when it was transferred to Skodje clerical district. Vatne became its own clerical district in 1866.

Borgund / Skodje, Vatne: 1816-1856

Skodje / Skodje, Vatne: 1855-1864

Borgund / Vatne: 1699-1817

Skodje / Vatne: 1864-1947

Borgund / Borgund, Skodje, Vatne: 1828-1852

Borgund / Borgund, Skodje, Vatne, Ålesund: 1853-1857

See also Skodje and Borgund clerical districts.

Census Records

 * Vicar's Census 1664-1666, no. 26: Sunnmøre deanery Digital Archives


 * Bailiff's Census 1664-1666, no. 16: Romsdal fogderi and Sunnmøre fogderi Digital Archives


 * Census (manntall) 1701, no. 10: Sunnmøre fogderi Digital Archives


 * 1801, 1845, 1855 see Borgund clerical district.


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


 * 1910 census for Vatne is available online at Digital Archives as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Farm Books
Slyngstad, Harald,Vatne bygdebok, gards- og ættesoge, Haram : Utgitt av Haram kommune, 1983. A genealogy and a history of the people and their farms in Vatne, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Farm name indexes to volumes 1 and 2 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:

101 Bakken, 86 Baraldnes, 82 Berget, 111 Birkevold, 82 Bjørløkke, 91 Bjørnegoten, 115 Drynen, 113 Drynjesund, 114 Drynjesundhaugen,  73 Eidsvik, 116 Eik, 92 Ertesvaag,  74 Fagerli, 90 Fanneløb, 97 Framgaarden,  112 Gangstad, 102 Garviken, 93 Grøt,  79 Haavik, 75 Hagen, 107 Hannibalsøen,99 Hatlehol, 5 Haugen, 86 Haugen, 96 Haugene, 84 Helland, 84 Hellandshavn, 106 Helle, 103 Hofset, 117 Hogset, 102 Holene,  70 Klokset, 98 Kroksæteren,  109 Langset, 83 Lunden,  72 Neset, 104 Nybø,  105 Orvik, 94 Os, 95 Osgoten,  118 Ramsvik, 81 Remme, 83 Ringstad, 84 Risviken,  82 Skaret, 73 Skogene, 85 Skor, 86 Skorbreivik, 80 Skulstad, 78 Slyngstad lille, 77 Slyngstad store, 76 Slyngstadli, 89 Strand indre, 82 Stølene,  72 Tenfjord, 108 Tennøen,  102 Ulvestad,  71 Vasset, 97 Vatne, 100 Vatne-Ødegaarden, 96 Vatnehol, 110 Vestre, 84 Viken

Probate Records
1689-1801: Probates are found in Sunnmøre judicial district.

1791-1852: Probates are found in Nordre Sunnmøre judicial district.

1707-1807: Clerical probates are found in Sunnmøre Deanery