Alois Carigiet was the seventh of eleven children born to Alois Carigiet and Barbara Maria Carigiet, "née" Lombriser, a farmer's family from Trun in the canton of Grisons, where he grew up and spent his first school years.
Alois Carigiet was the seventh of eleven children born to Alois Carigiet and Barbara Maria Carigiet, "née" Lombriser; the actor and comedian Zarli Carigiet was one younger brother. It was a farm family in Trun in the canton of Graubünden, where he grew up and spent his first school years.