Cerentino Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Cerentino 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
As of 1997, Canobbio has an area of 1.3 square kilometers (0.50 sq mi). The municipality is situated in the Lugano district, on a hill north of Lugano. It consists of the village of Canobbio and the settlement of Conago.

The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 29.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.7% - forested
 * 50.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 2.3% - rivers or lakes
 * 2.3% - unproductive land

History
The first mention of Canobbio was in 1313 as Briono.

The population history of Canobbio is: 1626 - 190 inhabitants 1709 - 185 inhabitants 1769 - 142 inhabitants 1801 - 153 inhabitants 1850 - 284 inhabitants 1900 - 362 inhabitants 1950 - 653 inhabitants 2000 - 1825 inhabitants

During the Middle Ages, Canobbio was a farm of the Abbey of S. Ambrogio in Milan. The Church of S. Siro, first mentioned in 863, belonged to the Abbey of S. Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia. The settlement of Conago is first referred to in 1335 along with its church of San Silvestro. The Humiliati monastery of S. Caterina in Lugano also possessed land in Canobbio. In 1472, the village church in Canobbio, divided from the mother church in Lugano (1472) and was incorporated in the parish of Comano. It became a self-sufficient parish in 1643.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Cerentino can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Cerentino 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)