Kölliken Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kölliken 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 Kölliken was first mentioned in 1000. It became Reformed in 1528. The municipality of Safenwil belonged to the parish between 1616-1865, when it became an independent parish.

Original church records are located onsite at the Kölliken municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1542-1612
 * Baptisms 1612-1678; marriages, burials 1612-1681
 * Baptisms 1679-1726; marriages, burials 1681-1726; confirmations 1708-1726
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations 1727-1751
 * Baptisms 1752-1799
 * Baptisms 1800-1816
 * Baptisms 1815-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1800-1875
 * Baptisms 1817-1837
 * Baptisms 1837-1864
 * Baptisms 1864-1875
 * Marriages 1752-1815
 * Marriages 1811-1816
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1871
 * Burials 1752-1811
 * Burials 1812-1816; burials non-resident citizens 1846-1875
 * Burials 1817-1851
 * Burials 1851-1875
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1790-1797
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1794-1799
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1795-1801
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1796-1802
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1801-1803
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1803-1806
 * Index to baptisms 1693-1806, marriages 1753-1805, burials 1777-1800, confirmations 1748-1801

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following family books, are found onsite at the Kölliken parish church office:
 * Family book, Kölliken 1816
 * Family book, Kölliken 1871

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kölliken:
 * 1837 (images 39-71)
 * 1850: Form A (images 588-635)
 * 1850: Form B (images 636-638)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kölliken 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)