Villmergen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Villmergen 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 Villmergen was first mentioned in 1185; the parish church is called St. Peter und Paul. It includes the municipalities of Anglikon (until 1917), Büttikon, and Hilfikon.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

The following church records are only available onsite at the Villmergen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1647-1743; confirmations 1654-1742
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1744-1823 (organized by location); confirmations 1768-1820
 * Baptisms 1817-1852
 * Baptisms 1853-1875
 * Marriages 1852-1875
 * Burials 1817-1874
 * Burials 1874-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Villmergen parish church office: Note: Marriages 1847-1852 are missing.
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1824-1847 (organized by location); confirmations 1829-1876, 1882-1902
 * Family book Villmergen, Büttikon, and Hilfikon 1858-1920
 * Family book Anglikon 1858-1913

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Villmergen:
 * 1837 (images 126-141)
 * 1850: Form A (images 654-693)
 * 1850: Form B (image 694)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Villmergen 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)