Kirchleerau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kirchleerau 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 Leerau, located in Kirchleerau, was first mentioned in 1050. It became Reformed in 1528. It includes the municipality of Moosleerau.

Original church records are located onsite at the Kirchleerau municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1551-1592, 1601-1661; marriages, burials 1612-1661
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1662-1733
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations 1733-1751
 * Baptisms 1751-1785
 * Baptisms 1786-1817; baptisms non-resident citizens 1812-1871
 * Baptisms 1817-1855
 * Baptisms 1856-1875
 * Marriages 1751-1811
 * Marriages 1810-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1751-1809
 * Burials 1810-1816
 * Burials 1814-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Kirchleerau municipal archive:
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1871
 * Confirmations 1752-1888

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Leerau parish church office:

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kirchleerau:
 * 1837 (images 222-236)
 * 1850: Form A (images 570-586)
 * 1850: Form B (image 587)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kirchleerau 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)