Rupperswil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Rupperswil 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 Rupperswil was established in 1681 from the parish of Suhr. See Suhr for earlier records.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Rupperswil municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1681-1752
 * Baptisms 1752-1794
 * Baptisms 1795-1810
 * Baptisms 1811-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1752-1810
 * Marriages 1811-1816; banns 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Burials 1752-1810
 * Burials 1811-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following records are available onsite at the Rupperswil municipal archive:
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1851-1903

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following records, are found onsite at the Rupperswil parish church office:
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Confirmations 1752-1810
 * Confirmations 1811-1962
 * Family book 1819-1855

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Rupperswil:
 * 1837 (images 219-237)
 * 1850: Form A (images 329-354)
 * 1850: Form B (images 355-357)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Rupperswil 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 Bern (GHGB)