Fescoggia Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Fescoggia 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
Fescoggia is located in upper Malcantone on a terrace of Mount Torri. A new municipality of Alto Malcantone formed in 2005 which included:
 * Arosio
 * Breno
 * Fescoggia
 * Mugena
 * Vezio

History
The first mention of Fescoggia is in 1226 as Fescozia.

The population history of Fescoggia is: 1801 - 131 inhabitants 1850 - 177 inhabitants 1900 - 149 inhabitants 1950 - 83 inhabitants 1980 - 72 inhabitants 1990 - 105 inhabitants 2000 - 88 inhabitants

According to a document from 1296, Fescoggia was, along with Agnuzzo, the only Luganese village wholly owned by the Cathedral Chapter of Como. The monastery of Saint-Abonde owned the tithe right, which it sold in 1579 to the community of Breno. Fescoggia was part of the parish of Breno. The prayer chapel dedicated to Saint Sylvester, was erected at the end of the 13th century over an earlier church and was last rebuilt in the late 18th century.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Fescoggia can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Fescoggia prior to 1900, 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)