Hornussen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hornussen 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 Hornussen has existed since at least the 1600s; its parish church is called St. Mauritius.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Böztal municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1784-1821
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1820-1849
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following church record is only available onsite at the Böztal municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1704-1781; marriages, burials 1704-1784; confirmations 1718-1751

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Hornussen parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1781-1875; burials 1785-1786; confirmations 1791-1865

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Hornussen:
 * 1837 (images 767-782)
 * 1850: Form A (images 431-449)
 * 1850: Form B (images 450-451)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hornussen 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)