Schlossrued Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Schlossrued 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 Rued, located in the municipality of Schlossrued, was first mentioned in the eleventh century. It includes the municipality of Schmiedrued.

Original church records are located onsite at the Schlossrued municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1549-1641 (with gaps); marriages 1581-1585
 * Baptisms 1643-1654, 1657-1671; marriages 1640-1671; burials 1648-1671
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1672-1708; confirmations 1689-1708
 * Baptisms 1708-1748; marriages, burials, confirmations 1708-1742
 * Baptisms 1748-1796
 * Baptisms 1797-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1838
 * Baptisms 1839-1875
 * Marriages 1743-1816
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1742-1816
 * Burials 1817-1861
 * Burials 1862-1875

Microfilm and digital copies of the xeroxed copies of the parish records is available online at FamilySearch (with possible viewing restrictions): The following church record is only available onsite at the Schlossrued municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1549-1748; marriages 1675-1737; burials 1709-1715; confirmations 1697-1707, 1717-1737; family book (images 3-169)
 * Confirmations 1743-1859

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Schlossrued:
 * 1837 (images 584-598)
 * 1850: Form A (images 180-203)
 * 1850: Form B (image 204)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Schlossrued 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)