Wohlenschwil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wohlenschwil 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 Wohlenschwil was first mentioned in the twelfth century; the parish church is called St. Leodegar. It includes the former municipality of Büblikon, and included the municipality of Mägenwil until 1904.

Original church records are located onsite at the Wohlenschwil parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1630-1737; marriages, burials 1654-1727; confirmations 1710-1723
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1735-1796; confirmations 1768-1795

The following church records, as well as all post-1875 church records, are available onsite in the Wohlenschwil parish church office:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1796-1834
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1796-1823 (organized by location)
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1874
 * Burials 1817-1875

Note: Marriages 1834-1876 are missing.

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

Büblikon was a separate municipality until 1906, when it became part of Wohlenschwil. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wohlenschwil and Büblikon:

Wohlenschwil

 * 1837 (images 588-595)
 * 1850: Form A (images 225-236)
 * 1850: Form B (image 237)

Büblikon

 * 1837 (image 411-417)
 * 1850: Form A (images 628-636)
 * 1850: Form B (image 637)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wohlenschwil 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 Zürich (GHGZ)