Moosleerau, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Moosleerau, 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 Moosleerau is in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated in the Zofingen district, on the eastern edge of the Suhre river valley.

Moosleerau (as of 2009) has an area of 3.81 km² (1.47 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 60.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 28.1% - forested
 * 12.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1243, Moosleerau was first mentioned by the name of Moslerovwa.

The population history of Moosleerau is: 1764 - 298 inhabitants 1850 - 646 inhabitants 1900 - 452 inhabitants 1920 - 414 inhabitants 1950 - 531 inhabitants 2000 - 798 inhabitants 2020 - 915 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 25.6% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 61.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

Moosleerau is part of the parish of Kirchleerau.

Church Records
Moosleerau belongs to the parish of Kirchleerau. See Kirchleerau for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Moosleerau:
 * 1837 (images 208-222)
 * 1850: Form A (images 639-655)
 * 1850: Form B (image 656)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Moosleerau 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)