Lavertezzo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lavertezzo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Geography
Lavertezzo is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton. Until 2019, this municipality consisted of the Lavertezzo Piano in the Magadino valley (village sections of Riazzino, Montedato, and Bugaro) and the village of Lavertezzo in the Verzasca valley (with Aquino, Rancone Sambugaro hamlets). Lavertezzo has an area of 58.11 km² (22.44 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 1.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 50.5% - forested
 * 0.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.7% - rivers & lakes
 * 39.3% - non-productive

History
In 1327, Lavertezzo was first mentioned as Laverteze. In the past, the people of Lavertezzo lived in the Verzasca valley during the summer months and the moved to the lower valleys in the winter with their cattle. In 2020, the Lavertezzo Valle in the Verzasca valley was detached and added to the municipality of Verzasca. The population history of Lavertezzo is: 1596 - 400 inhabitants 1636 - 460 inhabitants 1850 - 464 inhabitants 1900 - 685 inhabitants 1950 - 358 inhabitants 2000 - 1,098 inhabitants 2010 - 1,174 inhabitants 2019 - 1,299 inhabitants

In the 16th century, Lavertezzo separated from Vogorno and became an independent parish. In the 18th century, the parish church of Notre-Dame-des-Anges was built.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Lavertezzo can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lavertezzo prior to 1875, along with any known soprannomi. For more information about soprannomi, click here.

Related sources
The town's website (in Italian) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Ticino

Societies
Società Genealogica della Svizzera Italiana (SGSI)