Möriken-Wildegg, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Möriken-Wildegg, Aargau, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Geography
The municipality of Möriken-Wildegg is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It consists of the village of Möriken, Wildegg Castle, the village section of Wildegg (founded in the 18th century), the settlement of Hard and the ferry over the Aare river (replaced in 1870 by a bridge).

Möriken-Wildegg (as of YEAR) has an area of NUMBER km² (NUMBER square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * PERCENT% - agricultural purposes
 * PERCENT% - forested
 * PERCENT% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * PERCENT% - non-productive

History
In DATE, Möriken-Wildegg was first mentioned by the name of NAME.

The population history of Möriken-Wildegg is: 1700 - NUMBER inhabitants 1750 - NUMBER inhabitants 1800 - NUMBER inhabitants 1850 - NUMBER inhabitants 1860 - NUMBER inhabitants 1870 - NUMBER inhabitants 1880 - NUMBER inhabitants 1890 - NUMBER inhabitants 1900 - NUMBER inhabitants 1910 - NUMBER inhabitants 1920 - NUMBER inhabitants 1930 - NUMBER inhabitants 1940 - NUMBER inhabitants 1950 - NUMBER inhabitants 1960 - NUMBER inhabitants 1970 - NUMBER inhabitants 1980 - NUMBER inhabitants 1990 - NUMBER inhabitants 2000 - NUMBER inhabitants 2010 - NUMBER inhabitants 2014 - NUMBER inhabitants 2018 - NUMBER inhabitants 2020 - NUMBER inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * PERCENT% were Roman Catholic
 * PERCENT% were Swiss Reformed Church

In DATE, CHURCHDETAILS Until DATE, CHURCHDETAILS OTHERDETAILS

Church Records
Möriken-Wildegg belongs to the parish of Holderbank. See Holderbank for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Möriken-Wildegg:
 * 1837 (images 163-178)
 * 1850: Form A (images 237-257)
 * 1850: Form B (images 258-261)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Möriken-Wildegg 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)