Torsken Parish, Troms, Norway Genealogy

Norway &gt; Troms County &gt; Torsken

Church Records
contains parish registers for the parishes Berg and Torsken. The church books begin in 1783.

Parish heading list shows the Norwegain headings on the parish records with an English translations for each of the different forms used throughout the records beginning in 1814. Prior to that time the records were kept in a journal format which varies with each parish.

Digital images of the church books are online at Digitalarkivet.


 * Berg clerical district / Torsken parish: 1783-1811, 1833-1878, 1887-1945
 * Berg and Torsken clerical district / Torsken parish: 1783-1811, 1833-1878, 1887-1933
 * Berg and Torsken clerical district / Berg parish: 1843-1936
 * Berg and Torsken clerical district / Senja Nikkelverk: 1877-1887

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 se Trondenes clerical district.


 * 1701 see Lenvik clerical district.


 * Ekstraskattemanntallet 1763 Senja fogderi. The 1763 tax census for Senja fogderi includes the parishes of Astafjord, Trondenes, Kvæfjord, Bjarkøy, Lenvik, Hillesøy, Torsken, Tranøy, Berg and Mefjord and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * 1801-telling for Torsken is also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet.


 * 1801, 1865, 1875, 1891, 1900, see Berg clerical district.


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 1te desember 1910. The 1910 census for Torsken clerical district is available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives), and at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Probate Records
1706-1877 Senja judicial district.

1776-1809 Troms County judicial district.

1697-1824 Troms and Senja deanery.

Farm Books

 * by Arthur Brox. A history of Berg and Torsken in Berg clerical district in Troms county and a genealogy of the people and their farms. Text in Norwegian. A farm name index to this book is found in the following link. [[Image:948.452-B4 H2b v1 - TORSKEN 1.pdf]]

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

Farm Names
38 Aarberg 24 Bakke 18 Ballesvik 21 Barbogen 32 Botn 24 Bugten 40 Bunkan 35 Finnes 39 Flakstad 36 Giske 29 Grundfarnes 22 Gryllefjord 23 Gryllefjordbotn 42 Halvardsøen 24 Haugen 27 Holmen 30 Kaldfarnes 26 Kjerringvik 25 Kongsnes 37 Leikvik med Blaastrand 40 Lomsnes 31 Meby 41 Rødsand 20 Sandsvik 34 Sifjord 40 Steinjorden 40 Stordalen 19 Teistevik 24 Torsken 33 Veimanden 24 Værneset 28 Ørja