Vergeletto Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Vergeletto 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
Vergeletto is a parish within the Onsernone valley region of the District of Locarno, Canton Ticino, Switzerland. It consists of the municipalities of Vergeletto and Gresso.

History
Vergeletto broke away from the parish of Russo in 1757. The discovery in Gresso of a Roman tomb, dated in the 1st or 2nd century, proves that this area was an outlying part of the Vicus of Muralto. One of the earliest mentions of the modern village of Gresso is in 1316, when it was called Agrassio. Until 1803, Vergeletto/Gresso was part of the Squadra of Russo, one of the five Squadre that made up the medieval community of Onsernone. Gresso was formerly part of the municipality of Vergeletto, until obtaining independence in 1882. After its political break away, it remained ecclesiastically within the parish of Vergeletto.

Locations in Vergeletto parish
Vergeletto

Gresso (also known as Agrassio or Agressio in earlier records)

Surrounding parishes
Russo

Crana

Comologno

Mosogno

Berzona

Loco

Auressio