Bremgarten Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Bremgarten 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.



Catholic
The parish of Bremgarten, headquarted in the St. Nikolaus church, was first mentioned in 1252.

Original church records are located onsite at the Bremgarten city archive. Microfilm and digital copies of baptisms and marriages through 1866 and burials through 1874 are available online at FamilySearch (with possible viewing restrictions):
 * Baptisms 1580-1717; marriages 1580-1685 (with gaps); burials 1591-1683 (images 6-332)
 * Baptisms, marriages 1718-1866; burials 1718-1874; confirmations 1723-1856 (images 335-672)
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Jahrzeit book, 15th-16th centuries

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Bremgarten Catholic parish church office.

Reformed
A Reformed parish was established in 1874 for the congregation that dated back to 1845.

Original church records are located onsite at the Bremgarten city archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1846-1875
 * Marriages 1846-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1847-1871
 * Burials 1846-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Widen parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Bremgarten:
 * 1837 (images 631-645)
 * 1850: Form A (images 334-367)
 * 1850: Form B (image 368)

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

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)