Leuggern Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Leuggern 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 Leuggern was first mentioned in 1231; its parish church is called St. Peter und Paul. It includes the municipalities of Böttstein and Full-Reuenthal, and included Leibstadt until 1880.

Original church records are located onsite at the Leuggern municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1650-1708; marriages, burials 1650-1777; confirmations 1655-1775
 * Baptisms 1709-1807
 * Baptisms 1808-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1844
 * Baptisms 1845-1875
 * Marriages, burials 1778-1816; confirmations 1775-1865
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1818-1871
 * Burials 1817-1859
 * Burials 1860-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Leuggern parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Leuggern:
 * 1837 (images 671-694)
 * 1850: Form A (images 637-665)
 * 1850: Form B (image 666)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Leuggern 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 Zürich (GHGZ)