Verscio Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Verscio Parish, Ticino, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Geography
The former municipality of Verscio is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton and located along the cantonal road and the railway line that leads to Centovalli. Verscio has an area of 3.1 km² (1.2 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 15.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 65.3% - forested
 * 11.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 4.0% - rivers & lakes
 * 8.3% - non-productive

History
Verscio is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton. Verscio merged into a new municipality of Terre di Pedemonte on 14 April 2013. Other former municipalities merged include:
 * Cavigliano
 * Tegna

The population history of Verscio is: 1850 - 347 inhabitants 1880 - 267 inhabitants 1900 - 322 inhabitants 1920 - 271 inhabitants 1950 - 414 inhabitants 1970 - 569 inhabitants 1990 - 798 inhabitants 2000 - 887 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 70.9% were Roman Catholic
 * 11.2% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 4.4% belong to another church

The parish of Verscio also included the communities of Tegna (until 1692) and Cavigliano (until 1850). The Saint-Fidèle parish church was consecrated in 1214 and then rebuilt from 1743 to 1748.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Verscio can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Verscio prior to 1875, along with any known soprannomi. For more information about soprannomi, click here.

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Ticino

Societies
Società Genealogica della Svizzera Italiana (SGSI)