Ueken, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

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



Geography
The former municipality of Ueken is in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is a strassendorf on Staffeleggstrasse Frick-Aarau.

Ueken (as of 2009) has an area of 5.1 km² (2.0 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 51.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 38.6% - forested
 * 9.2% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.4% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1337, Ueken was first mentioned by the name of Itken.

Ueken merged into the new municipality of Herznach-Ueken On 1 January 2023. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Herznach

The population history of Ueken is: 1768 - 224 inhabitants 1850 - 319 inhabitants 1900 - 279 inhabitants 1950 - 335 inhabitants 1975 - 369 inhabitants 1980 - 366 inhabitants 1990 - 476 inhabitants 2000 - 693 inhabitants 2020 - 909 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 49.9% belonged to the Roman Catholic
 * 27.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 1.02% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

The Chapel of St. Anthony the Hermit, founded by locals and first mentioned in 1751, was part of the parish church of Herznach.

Church Records
Ueken belongs to the parish of Herznach. See Herznach for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Ueken:
 * 1837 (images 64-69)
 * 1850: Form A (images 624-631)
 * 1850: Form B (image 632)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Ueken 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)