Dalpe Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Dalpe 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
As of 1997, Dalpe has an area of 14.52 square kilometers (5.61 sq mi). The municipality is situated in the Leventina district, on a terrace at an elevation of 1,192 m (3,911 ft) above the Piottino. It includes the village of Dalpe with the settlement of Cornone.

The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 6.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 46.6% - forested
 * 1.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.2% - rivers or lakes
 * 31.5% - unproductive land

History
The first mention of Dalpe was in 1217 as Albe.

The population history of Dalpe is: 1602 - 227 inhabitants 1745 - 254 inhabitants 1850 - 481 inhabitants 1900 - 196 inhabitants 1941 - 129 inhabitants 1950 - 147 inhabitants 1960 - 202 inhabitants 2000 - 158 inhabitants 2010 - 174 inhabitants

In the 13th Century, the Gotthard route went through Faido to Cornon and Prato. Dalpe and Cornon formed a Degagna within the Vicinanza of Prato. The church is attested in 1338, the church in Cornon is from the late 15th Century. In 1640, Dalpe broke away from the parish of Prato and became an independent parish. The parish church of Santi Carlo e Bernardo is from 1661. In 1866, the Vicinanza of Dalpe divided from Prato and formed an independent civil parish.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Dalpe does not survive..

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Dalpe 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)