Karlsøy Parish, Troms, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
contains parish registers from the parishes Karlsøy and Helgøy. It included Sørfjord parish of Lyngen clerical district from 1861 to 1871.

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.


 * Karlsøy clerical district: 1775-1842, Engagements, 1886-1891
 * Karlsøy clerical district / Helgøy parish: 1805-1916
 * Karlsøy clerical district / Helgøy parish: 1805-1838 (Typewritten extract)
 * Karlsøy clerical district / Karlsøy parish: 1843-1917
 * Karlsøy clerical district / Karlsøy and Sørfjord parishes 1861-1871

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 see Tromsø clerical district.


 * Manntall 1701: optatt av fogderi, sorenskrivere og sogne prester ifølge kongebrev av 26 Juli 1701. The 1701 census for Karlsøy clerical district include the parishes of Kalsøy and Helgøy and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a scanned format at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Folketellingen den 1ste februar 1801, Norge. The 1801 census for Karlsøy clerical district includes the parishes of Karlsøy and Helgøy and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Folketellingen den 31te desember 1865. The 1865 census for Karlsøy clerical district includes the parishes of Karlsøy, Sørfjord, and Helgøy and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkviet (Digitalarkivet) as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * Folketellingen for kongeriket Norge den 31te desember 1875. The 1875 census for Karlsøy clerical district includes the parishes of Karlsøy and Helgøy and is available on microiflm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives), as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 3dje desember 1900. The 1900 census for Karlsøy clerical district include the parishes of Karlsøy and Helgøy and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) for Karlsøy and Helgøy, as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 1te desember 1910. The 1910 census for Karlsøy is available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Farm Names
7 Baatnes, 15 Bakkeby, 22 Bratrein, 42 Burøen, 42 Burøsund, 20 Eidet nordre, 19 Eidet søndre, 7 Eidstrand,  37 Fugløen, 6 Futnes,  9 Gammelgaarden, 21 Gammelgaarden, 41 Gammelgaarden, 24 Gamnes, 1 Gamvik indre, 27 Graagaarden, 42 Grimsholmen,  28 Hansnes, 26 Hesfjord, 18 Holmen, 21 Høistadsletten,  14 Jægervandet,  30 Karlsø Præstegaard, 33 Kjeglen, 31 Kvalshausen, 35 Kvitnes,  25 Lanes, 33 Lanes, 33 Lanesøren, 23 Langsund ,12 Lattervik, 11 Lattervikskjæret, 4 Lenangen nordre, 8 Lenangen søndre,  22 Rakkenes, 10 Ravik, 22 Reinskaret, 21 Reinsvolden, 3 Russelven,  13 Selnes, 32 Skaaningen, 29 Skattøren, 41 Skibsfjord, 39 Skorøerne, 40 Sletnes, 36 Spennen, 42 Stakkengen, 22 Stakvik, 5 Storvolden, 21 Storvolden,  17 Ulsnes, 16 Ulsnesvik,  38 Valen, 33 Vanstuen, 34 Vanvaag, 38 Vikan,  8 Ørbugten

Probate Records
1690-1866 Tromsø judicial district.

1776-1809 Troms County judicial district.

1697-1824 Troms and Senja deanery.

Historical Society
Karlsøy og Helgøy Historielag