Vico Morcote Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Vico Morcote 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
Vico Morcote is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton and located between Lake Lugano and Mount Arbostora. It includes the hamlets of Olivella and Colombaio. Vico Morcote has an area of 1.91 km² (0.74 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 16.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 72.8% - forested
 * 12.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.6% - non-productive

History
The population history of Vico Morcote is: 1591 - 120 inhabitants 1801 - 131 inhabitants 1850 - 179 inhabitants 1860 - 143 inhabitants 1870 - 157 inhabitants 1880 - 142 inhabitants 1890 - 170 inhabitants 1900 - 166 inhabitants 1910 - 155 inhabitants 1920 - 131 inhabitants 1930 - 135 inhabitants 1941 - 118 inhabitants 1950 - 188 inhabitants 1960 - 192 inhabitants 1970 - 221 inhabitants 1980 - 224 inhabitants 1990 - 218 inhabitants 2000 - 250 inhabitants 2020 - 422 inhabitants

The parish church of Saints-Fidèle-et-Simon was built in 1591 on the remains of an 11th century religious building. It was restored between 1966 to 1974. Per the 2000 census:
 * 69.6% were Roman Catholic
 * 14.4% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 13.6% belong to another church

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Vico Morcote can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Vico Morcote 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)