Villa Luganese Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Villa Luganese 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
Villa Luganese forms a part of the city of Lugano.

History
Formerly its own municipality, Villa Luganese has been incorporated into Lugano in 2008.

The population history of Villa Luganese is: 1670 - 45 inhabitants 1801 - 267 inhabitants 1850 - 264 inhabitants 1900 - 229 inhabitants 1950 - 233 inhabitants 2000 - 467 inhabitants

During the Middle Ages, Villa Luganese was part of the church of Saint-Carpophore de Côme (a Benedictine abbey since 1040). Between 1326 and 1800, Villa Luganese was part of the castellany of Sonvico. Villa Luganese spiritually depended on Sonvico until 1830. At that time, it became a parish. The Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption church (built in the Middle Ages) transformed into the Baroque style in the 1720s and had its last restorations in 1976.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Villa Luganese can be accessed here (starting at entry 341).

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Villa Luganese prior to 1900, 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)