Villmergen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Villmergen 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 Villmergen was first mentioned in 1185; the parish church is called St. Peter und Paul. It includes the municipalities of Anglikon (until 1917), Büttikon, and Hilfikon.

The following church records are only available onsite at the Villmergen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1647-1743; confirmations 1654-1742
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1744-1823 (organized by location); confirmations 1768-1820
 * Baptisms 1817-1852
 * Baptisms 1853-1875
 * Marriages 1852-1875
 * Burials 1817-1874
 * Burials 1874-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Villmergen parish church office: Note: Marriages 1847-1852 are missing.
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1824-1847 (organized by location); confirmations 1829-1876, 1882-1902
 * Family book Villmergen, Büttikon, and Hilfikon 1858-1920
 * Family book Anglikon 1858-1913

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Villmergen:
 * 1837 (images 126-141)
 * 1850: Form A (images 654-693)
 * 1850: Form B (image 694)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Villmergen 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)