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.

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)