Wohlenschwil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wohlenschwil 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 Wohlenschwil was first mentioned in the twelfth century; the parish church is called St. Leodegar. It includes the former municipality of Büblikon, and included the municipality of Mägenwil until 1904.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Wohlenschwil parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1630-1737; marriages, burials 1654-1727; confirmations 1710-1723
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1735-1796; confirmations 1768-1795

The following church records, as well as all post-1875 church records, are available onsite in the Wohlenschwil parish church office:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1796-1834
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1796-1823 (organized by location)
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1874
 * Burials 1817-1875

Note: Marriages 1834-1876 are missing.

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

Büblikon was a separate municipality until 1906, when it became part of Wohlenschwil. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wohlenschwil and Büblikon:

Wohlenschwil

 * 1837 (images 588-595)
 * 1850: Form A (images 225-236)
 * 1850: Form B (image 237)

Büblikon

 * 1837 (image 411-417)
 * 1850: Form A (images 628-636)
 * 1850: Form B (image 637)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wohlenschwil prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Zürich (GHGZ)