Brione Verzasca Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Brione Verzasca Parish, Ticino, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Geography
Brione (Verzasca) is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton in the upper Verzasca Valley. Brione has an area of 48.56 km² (18.75 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 1.3% - agricultural purposes
 * 47.7% - forested
 * 0.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 2.1% - rivers & lakes
 * 43.2% - non-productive

History
Brione merged into a new municipality of Verzasca on 17 October 2020. Other former municipalities merged include:
 * Corippo
 * Frasco
 * Sonogno
 * Vogorno

The population history of Brione is: 1761 - 551 inhabitants 1850 - 870 inhabitants 1860 - 636 inhabitants<br 1870 - 323 inhabitants 1900 - 676 inhabitants 1950 - 349 inhabitants 1990 - 158 inhabitants 2000 - 203 inhabitants 2010 - 201 inhabitants 2019 - 172 inhabitants

In the 17th century, the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption Churh was enlarged and then restored in the 19th century. It was built on the remains of a chapel from 1295. Before 1518, the Brione parish separated from Vogorno.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Brione Verzasca can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Brione Verzasca prior to 1875, along with any known soprannomi. For more information about soprannomi, click here.

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Ticino

Societies
Società Genealogica della Svizzera Italiana (SGSI)