Oberwil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Oberwil 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 Oberwil was established in 1445; the parish church is called St. Michael. It includes Lieli, and it included Berikon until 1861.

Original church records are located onsite at the Oberwil-Lieli municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Oberwil-Lieli municipal archive:
 * Marriages 1853-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Oberwil-Lieli parish church office:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1755-1878; confirmations 1768-1927

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

Leili was a separate municipality until 1908, when it became part of Oberwil. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Oberwil and Lieli:

Oberwil

 * 1837 (images 34-41)
 * 1850: Form A (images 558-572)
 * 1850: Form B (image 573)

Lieli

 * 1837 (images 5-9)
 * 1850: Form A (images 498-501)
 * 1850: Form B (image 502)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Oberwil 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)