Seon Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Seon 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 Seon was first mentioned in 1275. In 1528 it became Reformed.

Original church records are located onsite at the Seon municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1641-1713; marriages, burials 1648-1717
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1718-1752; confirmations 1736-1752
 * Baptisms 1753-1794
 * Baptisms 1795-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1789-1875
 * Marriages 1753-1852 marriages non-resident citizens 1770-1816
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1753-1816; burials non-resident citizens 1828-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Seon municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1864
 * Baptisms 1865-1875
 * Burials 1853-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Seon parish church office.

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

Retterswil was a separate municipality until 1899, when it became part of Seon. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Retterswil and Seon:

Seon

 * 1837 (images 279-306)
 * 1850: Form A (images 435-473)
 * 1850: Form B (image 474)

Retterswil

 * 1837 (images 218-219)
 * 1850: Form A (images 325-327)
 * 1850: Form B (image 328)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Seon 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 Bern (GHGB)