Wölflinswil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wölflinswil 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 Wölflinswil was first mentioned in the tenth century; the parish church is called St. Mauritius. It includes the municipality of Oberhof.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Wölflinswil municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church record is available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1584-1747; marriages 1683-1747; burials 1674-1747; confirmations 1675-1712

The following church records are only available onsite at the Wölflinswil municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1586-1647, 1662-1663
 * Baptisms 1748-1784; confirmations 1750-1865
 * Baptisms Wölflinswil 1785-1829; baptisms Oberhof 1785-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1587-1653, 1666-1683
 * Marriages Wölflinswil 1785-1829; marriages Oberhof 1785-1825; marriages 1829-1846
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1833-1873
 * Burials Wölflinswil 1748-1830; burials Oberhof 1786-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Wölflinswil parish church office:
 * Marriages 1748-1784; confirmations 1876-1947
 * Family book 1834-1863

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wölflinswil:
 * 1837 (images 94-104)
 * 1850: Form A (images 670-687)
 * 1850: Form B (image 688)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wölflinswil 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)