Vergeletto Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

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



Geography
Vergeletto is a parish within the Onsernone valley region of the District of Locarno, Canton Ticino, Switzerland. It consists of the municipalities of Vergeletto and Gresso.

History
Vergeletto broke away from the parish of Russo in 1757.

The discovery in Gresso of a Roman tomb, dated in the 1st or 2nd century, proves that this area was an outlying part of the Vicus of Muralto. One of the earliest mentions of the modern village of Gresso is in 1316, when it was called Agrassio. Until 1803, Vergeletto/Gresso was part of the Squadra of Russo, one of the five Squadre that made up the medieval community of Onsernone.

Gresso was formerly part of the municipality of Vergeletto, until obtaining independence in 1882. After its political break away, it remained ecclesiastically within the parish of Vergeletto.

Locations within Vergeletto
Vergeletto

Gresso (also known as Agrassio or Agressio in earlier records)

Surrounding parishes
Auressio Berzona Comologno Crana Loco Mosogno Russo

Church Records
The following parish registers are available on microfilm

Vergeletto broke away from Russo and became an independent parish in 1757. Persons researching Vergeletto/Gresso prior to that time will need to consult the Russo parish registers. While Vergeletto began a register of baptisms in 1710, there is considerable overlap between the two parishes in the period between about 1710-1769.

Parish records are mostly written in the Latin language, with some Italian. Help with translating the Latin records can be found here.

Census Records
(See here for information regarding Ticino census records.)

The 1808 Ticino census for Vergeletto can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Russo prior to 1875, along with any known soprannomi. For more information about soprannomi, click here.

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

Archives and libraries
State Archives of Ticino

Periodicals
La Voce Onsernone

La Voce Onsernonese is a locally produced and published Italian language periodical which contains a wealth of valuable information about the people, culture, history, and landscape of the Onsernone Valley area. Most of the issues from its inception in 1972 through 2012 are archived and viewable online.