Cimo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Cimo 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
Cimo is a former municipality in the district of Lugano and has been part of the municipality of Bioggio since 2004. It is a Middle Malcantone village, situated on the eastern slope of Mount Santa Maria, with the church of the same name, to whose parish (Iseo) Cimo belongs.

History
The first mention of Cimo is in 1335 as Gimo.

On 3 November 2003, Cimo merged with the old town of Bioggio and Bosco Luganese to form Bioggio.

The population history of Cimo is: 1808 - 44 inhabitants 1850 - 61 inhabitants 1900 - 125 inhabitants 1950 - 88 inhabitants 1960 - 83 inhabitants 2000 - 209 inhabitants

In the late Middle Ages, Cimo was part of the community of Santa Maria Giovena, which also consisted of Iseo and Aranno (later also Miglieglia) and depended on the pieve of Agno. Located in the center of the village is The Saint-Joseph oratory (dedicated to Saint Michael until the middle of the 19th century).

According to records from 1571, Santa Maria-Iseo and Cimo Parish was part of the Agno Pieve. The Pieve was formed from the following parishes: In Swiss territory -

In what is now Italian territory. With the exception of Cremenaga, all these parishes were separated from Agno by 1633.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Cimo can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Cimo 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)