Denbighshire

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Broughton

"A township in the parish and Union of Wrexham, hundred of Bromfield, county of Denbigh; containing, in 1841, 1449 inhabitants. ..... This township and its vicinity abound with rich and extensive mines of coal, lead, and iron ore, &c., and various establishments, on a very large scale, have for a considerable number of years been employed in working them. .....
That remarkable monument of Saxon industry, Clawdd Offa, or Offa's Dyke, passes through this township, crossing near Brymbo Hall, where it has been levelled for the formation of rail-roads in connexion with the collieries and iron-works: in levelling a portion of it, a great quantity of the bones of horses, in a state of excellent preservation, and horse-shoes of rude workmanship, were found."
[A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis]

The new parish of Broughton was formed by an Order in Council on 15 February 1909, from part of the township of Broughton, which since 1844 had been in the parish of Brymbo. On 7 May 1921, a small part of the south of the parish went to the new parish of Southsea.

Church History Church Records Civil Registration

Population Statistics

Church History

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of St. Paul's.

A new Mission Church, St. Peter's, at Brynteg (SJ 308523), was dedicated by the Bishop of St. Asaph on 1 May 1895.
The church was consecrated on 3 January 1909.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of St. Peter's.

Nonconformist Churches

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Moriah, New Broughton	Baptists	30
Salem Newydd (or Moss)	Baptists	269
Blacklane	Calvinistic Methodists (English language)	230
Caersalem, Pentre Cerney	Calvinistic Methodists	180
Cerney	Calvinistic Methodists	140
Cyssegr,New Broughton	Calvinistic Methodists	150
Berea, New Broughton	Congregationalists	60
Bethesda, Bryn Teg	Congregationalists	171
Bryn Seion	Congregationalists	200
Moss	Congregationalists (English language)	47
Bethel, Old Mount	Wesleyans	500
Brake (or Moss)	Wesleyans (English language)	312
Pisgah	Wesleyans	172
Soar, New Broughton	Wesleyans	229
Moriah, Blacklane (Welsh)	United Methodist Free Church	78
Lodge	Primitive Methodists (English language)	70
Zion, Brynteg	Primitive Methodists (English language)	300
Cerney	Free Gospellers (English language)	200

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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, at the A.N. Palmer Library, Wrexham, and at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  These microfilms are not available elsewhere.

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1890 - 1925	1909 - 1954	1889 - 1927

Bishop's Transcripts

• There are no Bishop's Transcripts for St. Paul's, Broughton.

I.G.I.

• There are no official I.G.I. entries for St. Paul's, Broughton.

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Civil Registration

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Broughton are in the format :

• Years 1837 - 1851: Wrexham XXVII.nnn
• Years 1851 - 1930: Wrexham 11b.nnn

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

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Population

• Archdeacon Thomas gives the population of the parish as 5036.
  [ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

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Statistics

• Archdeacon Thomas estimates the area of the parish as 499 acres.
  [ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

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