Würenlingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Würenlingen 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
Würenlingen belonged to the parish of Klingnau until 1779, when it became an independent parish. The parish church is called St. Michael. See Klingnau for earlier records.

The following church records are available onsite in the Würenlingen parish church records:
 * Baptisms 1779-1833; confirmations 1780-1865
 * Baptisms 1817-1872
 * Baptisms 1873-1876
 * Marriages 1806-1816; burials 1806-1816, 1830-1833
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

Note: Marriages 1853-1875 are missing.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Würenlingen:
 * 1837 (images 595-612)
 * 1850: Form A (images 238-265)
 * 1850: Form B (images 267-268)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Würenlingen 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)