Mumpf Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Mumpf Parish, Aargau, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Church Records
The parish of Mumpf was first mentioned in 1441; the parish church is called St. Martin. It included the municipality of Wallbach until 1939.

Original church records are located onsite at the Mumpf municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1640-1746; marriages, burials 1680-1746; confirmations 1681-1730
 * Baptisms, marriages 1746-1803; burials 1746-1785; confirmations 1743-1810
 * Baptisms 1784-1816 (organized by location)
 * Marriages 1784-1816 (organized by location)
 * Burials 1784-1816 (organized by location)

The following church records are only available onsite at the Mumpf municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1865
 * Baptisms 1866-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1865
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Mumpf parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1790-1862

Census
(See here for information regarding Aargau census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Mumpf:
 * 1837 (images 786-795)
 * 1850: Form A (images 227-238)
 * 1850: Form B (images 239-241)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Mumpf prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Region Basel (GHGRB)