Wittnau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wittnau 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 Wittnau was first mentioned in 1000; the parish church is named St. Martin.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

The following church records are available onsite in the Wittnau church parish office:
 * Baptisms 1585-1648
 * Baptisms 1648-1702; marriages, burials 1665-1702
 * Baptisms 1702-1780; marriages, burials 1702-1782; confirmations 1705-1712, 1730-1776
 * Baptisms 1781-1799; marriages 1783-1798; burials 1783-1790; confirmations 1805-1865
 * Marriages 1585-1642, 1653-1661; burials 1585-1660
 * Family book 1873-1934

Original church records are located onsite at the Wittnau church parish office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1784-1817; first communions 1840-1875
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1785-1817
 * Marriages 1817-1851
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1860
 * Burials 1784-1817
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wittnau:
 * 1837 (images 79-94)
 * 1850: Form A (images 646-668)
 * 1850: Form B (image 669)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wittnau 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)