Åfjord (Aa, Å) Parish, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Åfjord clerical district contains parish registers from the parishes Åfjord and Jøssund. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the.

Digital images are online at Digitalarkivet:

Åfjord: 1750-1879, 1922-1936

Åfjord / Jøssund: 1879-1939

/ Å: 1777-1788, 1866-1922

Census Records

 * Sogneprestenes manntall 1664-1666. The 1664-1666 clerical census for Åfjord clerical district includes the parishes of Åfjord and Jøssund and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. also available in a scanned format at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) as well as in a searchable index.


 * Manntall 1701: The 1701 census for Åfjord (Aa, Å ) clerical district includes the parishes of Åfjord and Jøssund and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a scanned format at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Sjeleregister, 1794, 1825-1827. The 1794, 1825-1827 census for Fosen prosti includes the parishes of Hemne, Hitra, Frøya, Ørland, Stadsbygd, Åfjord and Bjørnør and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * Folketelling 1 Feb 1801, Norge. The 1801 census for Åfjord clerical district includes the parishes of Åfjord and Jøssund and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Folketelling 1835, 1845, og 1855, Åfjord prestegjeld (Sør-Trøndelag). The 1835, 1845, and 1855 census for Åfjord clerical district include the parishes of Åfjord and Jøssund and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * Folketælling 31 December 1865. The 1865 census for Åfjord clerical district include the parishes of Åfjord and Jøssund and is available on microfilm 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.


 * Folketælling for kongeriget Norge den 31te December 1875. The 1875 census for Åfjord clerical district includes the parishes of Åfjord and Jøssund and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * Folketælling for Norge, 3 Dec 1900. The 1900 census for Åfjord clerical district include the parishes of Åfjord and Jøssund and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) for Jøssund and  Åfjord (Aa, Å) as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


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

Farm Books
Hansen, Hans K. Åfjord og Jøssund gårdshistorie, Trondheim : Utgitt av Jøssund Kommune, 1956. A genealogy of the people and the farms they lived on in Åfjord and Jøssund in Sør-Trøndelag county. Volume 1 covers the years 1500-1800 and volume 2 covers 1801-1875. FHL 948341A1 D2h A farm name index to volume 2 is found in the following link.

Farm Names
For a longer list of farm names than the list below, click on the link under Farm Books.

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

58 Aa 62 Aakerneset 26 Aarbo 58 Aarneset 47 Arnevik 11 Bakkan 15 Berdal 52 Bratset 41 Breivold 53 Brulien 20 Butli 30 By 35 Bølsmarken 18 Børmarken  7 Dolmset  61 Eid 64 Eidem  49 Finset 54 Fjeldsaune 39 Flenstad 25 Forfot 57 Frønes  31 Gilde 62 Grimstad 33 Grøtan 10 Grøtan med Kvitlan  29 Haastad 12 Halsaunet 1 Hestvik 9 Humstad  14 Imsen  55 Kammen 44 Karlaunet 56 Kjørem 60 Kobberneset 51 Kroken 50 Kroksnesset 5 Kvendal med Bækken  38 Lysvatne 67 Løvøen  19 Maamyr 6 Markenes 28 Mo 59 Monstad 4 Morken 43 Morvold 37 Mælan 16 Mølsletten 46 Møri 45 Møriaunet  34 Naustan 17 Nittamarken  3 Olderneset 24 Ommunddal  63 Raanes 48 Rotnes 30 Rundtom 27 Rømmen  66 Selnes 8 Skaset 21 Skjern 32 Staven 60 Strand  3 Taarnes 2 Tørhogg  33 Ugdal  13 Valleraunet 36 Vasstrand 40 Vinnan  65 Øian 42 Øikaunet

Probate Records
1681-1874: Probates may be found in Fosen judicial district.

1691-1814: Clerical probates may be found in Fosen Deanery.