Niederwil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Niederwil 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 Niederwil was first mentioned in 1000; the parish church is called St. Martin. It included Tägerig until 1864.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Niederwil municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1647-1773; burials 1647-1776
 * Baptisms, marriages 1774-1823; burials 1776-1823; confirmations 1780-1808
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1824-1846; confirmations 1829-1865
 * Baptisms 1817-1861
 * Baptisms 1861-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Niederwil municipal archive:
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Niederwil parish church office.
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1829-1857
 * Family book 1767-1778

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

Nesselnbach was a separate municipality until 1901, when it became part of Niederwil. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Niederwil and Nesselnbach:

Niederwil

 * 1837 (images 21-34)
 * 1850: Form A (images 540-556)
 * 1850: Form B (image 557)

Nesselnbach

 * 1837 (images 645-651)
 * 1850: Form A (images 531-538)
 * 1850: Form B (image 539)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Niederwil 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)