Mettau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Mettau 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 Mettau was was first mentioned in 1254; the parish church is called St. Remigius. It includes the municipalities of Etzgen, Oberhofen, and Wil. It also included the municipality of Schwaderloch between 1788-1880.

Original church records are located onsite at the Mettauertal municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1645-1780; confirmations 1660-1750
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1780-1798; baptisms Schwaderloch 1824-1825
 * Baptisms 1784-1825 (organized by location)
 * Baptisms 1817-1844
 * Baptisms 1844-1875
 * Baptisms 1875
 * Marriages 1784-1825 (organized by location)
 * Marriages 1817-1852


 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1820-1854
 * Burials 1784-1825 (organized by location)
 * Burials 1817-1867
 * Burials 1868-1875

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Mettau:
 * 1837 (images 803-809)
 * 1850: Form A (images 513-522)
 * 1850: Form B (image 523)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Mettau 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)