Wohlen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wohlen 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 Wohlen was first established in 1518. It was Reformed between 1529-1531; Wohlen was Recatholicized in 1531. The parish church is called St. Leonhard.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Wohlen municipal archive or the Wohlen civil registration office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1633-1752 (with gaps); marriages, burials 1634-1752; confirmations 1635-1742
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1753-1825; confirmations 1753-1875
 * Baptisms 1817-1861
 * Baptisms 1862-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

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

Anglikon was a separate municipality until 1014, when it became part of Wohlen. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wohlen and Anglikon:

Wohlen

 * 1837 (images 75-102)
 * 1850: Form A (images 706-764)
 * 1850: Form B (images 765-766)

Anglikon

 * 1837 (images 651-658)
 * 1850: Form A (images 294-305)
 * 1850: Form B (image 306)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wohlen 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)