Casima Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Casima 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
Casima is a former municipality in the district of Mendrisio. It is located on the right side of Valle di Muggio.

Since 2004, the former municipalities of Casima and Monte as well as the settlement of Campora (formerly part of the municipality of Caneggio) have been included in Castel San Pietro.

History
The population history of Casima is: 1801 - 94 inhabitants 1850 - 149 inhabitants 1900 - 94 inhabitants 1950 - 77 inhabitants 1980 - 34 inhabitants 2000 - 61 inhabitants

Casima (first mentioned in 1507) probably arose in the Middle Ages as a hamlet of the municipality of Cabbio, In 1805, it became an independent municipality. The separation from the parish of Cabbio dates from 1788. The church of Notre-Dame-des-Douleurs and Saint-Charles-Borromée is an 18th-19th century building, built on the site of an earlier construction, mentioned in 1619.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Casima can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Casima prior to 1875, 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)