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:

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)