Niederwil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Niederwil 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 Niederwil was first mentioned in 1000. It included Tägerig until 1864.

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

Nesselnbach was a separate municipality until 1901, when it became part of Niederwil. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Niederwil and Nesselnbach:

Niederwil

 * 1837 (images 21-34)
 * 1850: Form A (images 540-556)
 * 1850: Form B (image 557)

Nesselnbach

 * 1837 (images 645-651)
 * 1850: Form A (images 531-538)
 * 1850: Form B (image 539)

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

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)