Wettingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wettingen 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 Wettingen was first mentioned in 1227; the parish church is called St. Sebastian. It included the municipalities of Neuenhof and Killwangen until 1887.

Original church records are located onsite at the Wettingen church parish office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, burials 1651-1735; marriages 1709-1710, 1713-1735; confirmations 1652-1731
 * Baptisms 1735-1841; burials 1831-1840
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1876
 * Marriages non-citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1867
 * Burials 1868-1875
 * Family book Wettingen

The following records, as well as all post-1875 church records, are found onsite at the Wettingen church parish office.
 * Baptisms 1817-1849
 * Baptisms 1850-1875
 * Marriages 1753-1837; burials 1747-1830; confirmations 1753-1917, 1922-1952
 * Banns 1821-1852
 * Family book Killwangen 1821-1848

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wettingen:
 * 1837 (images 572-588)
 * 1850: Form A (images 185-223)
 * 1850: Form B (image 224)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wettingen 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)