GENUKI : Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, St. Ffraid

Llansanffraid Glan Conwy

"A parish in the Union of Conway, hundred of Isdulas, county of Denbigh; 3 miles (SE by E) from Aberconway, containing 1306 inhabitants. This parish is situated in the pleasant vale of Conway: the village stands on the eastern bank of the river, on the road from Aberconway to Llanrwst, within five miles of the Irish Sea."
[A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis]

According to Archdeacon Thomas, St. Bridget (Ffraid) is traditionally supposed to have sailed from Ireland on a green turf, and landed on the bank of the River Conwy, about a quarter of a mile west of the present church.
The parish comprises the townships of Trellan, Trebwll, Tre Trallwyn, Tre Deunant and Pen y Rhos.

Church History
Church Records
Civil Registration

Population
Statistics

Church History

Ordnance Survey reference SH 804761.
The church was rebuilt in 1839, and restored in 1908.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

Nonconformist Churches

"Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist places of worship in the Civil parish of Llansanffraid Glan Conwy :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Salem, Fforddlas	Baptists	250
Bryn, Ebenezer	Calvinistic Methodists	250
Croesengan	Calvinistic Methodists	60
Moriah	Calvinistic Methodists	100
Bryn Rhys	Congregationalists	69
Carmel	Wesleyans	35
Tyn'ycelyn	Wesleyans	36

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Church Records

Parish Registers

The following Parish Registers have been deposited at the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin.
They may be viewed on microfilm at the Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices, and at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
These microfilms are not available elsewhere.
The Parish Registers for the years 1729 - 1740 were destroyed in a fire at the Rectory in 1740. Unfortunately, the Bishop's Transcripts do not fully cover the missing years.

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1660 - 1730 1741 - 1913	1695 - 1729 1741 - 1970	1662 - 1729 1741 - 1993

Clwyd FHS has published full transcriptions of the registers (complete with indexes) for the following years :

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1660 - 1812	1662 - 1812	1662 - 1812

Bishop's Transcripts

Bishop's Transcripts for the years shown below have been deposited in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Around the year 1951, most of the Bishop's Transcripts which had been deposited at that time were microfilmed by the LDS; and the films are available on request at Family History Centres of the LDS.
The films may also be viewed at the Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices, and at the National Library of Wales.
In general, the Bishop's Transcripts are less complete than the parish registers.

Deposited at the National Library of Wales	Microfilmed copies
1662 - 1840	1662 - 1840

I.G.I.

There are no official I.G.I. entries for St. Ffraid, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy.

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Civil Registration

When Civil Registration was introduced (on 1 July 1837), the parish of Llansanffraid Glan Conwy was assigned to the No. 2 ("Creuddyn") sub-district of the Conwy Registration District; which was co-extensive with the Conwy poor law Union.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Llansanffraid Glan Conwy are in the format :

Years 1837 - 1851: Conway XXVII.nnn
Years 1851 - 1930: Conway 11b.nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)

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Population

In 1831- the population was 1306.
In 1901- the population was 977.
[Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas gives the area of the parish as 5021 acres.
[ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

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Last Updated 23 Nov 2009 - Gareth Hicks