Rothrist Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Rothrist 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, now called Rothrist, was established in 1714. Before 1714, it belonged to the parish of Zofingen.

Original church records are located onsite at the Rothrist municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1715-1751; marriages non-resident citizens 1752-1763
 * Baptisms 1750-1790
 * Baptisms 1791-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1840
 * Baptisms 1841-1875
 * Marriages 1752-1816; banns 1817-1838
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1852-1875
 * Burials 1752-1816
 * Burials 1817-1857
 * Burials 1858-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Rothrist municipal archive:
 * Baptisms non-resident citizens 1739-1818
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1859

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Rothrist parish church office:
 * Baptisms non-resident citizens 1710-1758; confirmations 1728-1776
 * Marriages 1839-1857

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Rothrist, formerly called Niederwil:
 * 1837 (images 240-288)
 * 1850: Form A (images 668-732)
 * 1850: Form B (images 733-734)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Rothrist 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 Bern (GHGB)