Stokke Parish, Vestfold, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Stokke clerical district contains parish registers from the parishes Stokke, Skjee and Arnadal (Arendal). The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the.

Digital images are online at Digitalarkivet:

Stokke: 1717-1883, 1895-1975

Stokke / Arnadal: 1884-1935

Stokke / Skjee: 1884-1910

Stokke / Stokke: 1884-1940 g

Census Records

 * Sogneprestenes manntall 1664-1666. The 1664-1666 clerical census for Stokke clerical district include the parishes of Stokke, Skjee and Arnadal, and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * Folketelling 1 Feb 1801, Norge. The 1801 census for Stokke clerical district include the parishes of  Stokke, Skjee and Arnadal, and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.  This census is also online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * 1845 folketelling for Stokke prestegjeld (Vestfold). The 1845 census for Stokke clerical district include the parishes of Stokke, Skjee and Arnadal, and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.  This census include mainly statistical information.&gt;


 * 1855 folketelling for Stokke prestegjeld (Vestfold). The 1855 census for Stokke clerical district include the parishes of Stokke, Skjee and Arnadal, and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library..  This census include mainly statistical information.


 * Folketælling 31 December 1865. The 1865 census for Stokke clerical district include the parishes of Stokke, Skjee and Arnadal, and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.  Also available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives); as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * Folketælling for kongeriget Norge den 31te December 1875. The 1875 census for Stokke clerical district include the parishes of Stokke, Skjee and Arnadal, and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * Folketælling for Norge, 3 Dec 1900. The 1900 census for Stokke clerical district include the parishes of Stokke, Skjee and Arnadal, and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives); as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 1ste desember 1910. The 1910 census for Stokke clerical district is available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives); as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Farm Books
Berg, Lorens,Stokke, en bygdebok, Oslo 1928. A genealogy of the people and their farms in Stokke, Vestfold county with a history of the area. FHL 948.26/S4 D2b A farm name index to this book 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:

44 Alby 28 Ask 27 Bakken 16 Brekke 5 Brua 9 Brunstad 69 Brøholt 32 Bære-Var 58 Bærefjeld  58 Døvle  29 Eikelund  38 Fen mellem 40 Fitja  12 Gile vestre 21 Grimestad  43 Haaø 11 Hagen 19 Haslestad 50 Haugan 59 Helgerød 20 Holtan 71 Holtet vestre 58 Holtet østre 56 Husum lille 24 Hvaal mellem  61 Kile vestre 14 Kjelderen 41 Klaastad 54 Kleppan vestre 36 Kleppan østre 22 Korsene 46 Kriken  18 Laagerød 49 Langø 33 Lunden  13 Melsom  62 Nygaard  63 Olsrød 62 Orebru 45 Oslebakke  22 Præstegaarden  6 Raaberg 4 Raastad nordre 1 Rakkaas[] 1 Rakkevik 42 Ravnøen 51 Rove 62 Rusletvet 50 Rydningen 65 Rørkoll nordre  17 Sjuerød 7 Sjuestok 8 Skjærsnes 26 Solberg 53 Stavnum nordre 68 Steinsholt 67 Steinsrud 38 Strandlien 22 Stubberød  47 Tangen 10 Tufte  66 Unnerstvet  30 Vaarnes 14 Vadum nedre 55 Vagtberg 34 Var lille 31 Var store 35 Var vestre 3 Veer søndre 48 Vestgaarden  37 Ødegaarden

Probate Records
Søndre Jarlsberg judicial district *1696-1848 Family History Library *1700-1848 Digitalarkivet

Jarlsberg deanery *1704-1808 Family History Library *1704-1808 Digitalarkivet