Oeschgen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Oeschgen 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 Oeschgen was first mentioned at the end of the twelfth century; the parish church is called St. Kosmas und Damian.

The following church records are available onsite in the Oeschgen parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1695-1820
 * Baptisms 1817-1821
 * Marriages 1696-1819
 * Burials 1696-1820
 * Confirmations 1705-1841, 1885-1891

The following church records are available onsite in the Oeschgen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1852
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Family book 1850-1935

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Oeschgen parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Oeschgen:
 * 1837 (images 28-38)
 * 1850: Form A (images 556-570)
 * 1850: Form B (images 571)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Oeschgen 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)