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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

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 306533.
The foundation stone of the church, which is dedicated to St. Paul, was laid on 12 November 1888. The first service was held on Monday, 29 July 1889, although the church was not officially licensed for worship until 16 November 1889 - and almost twenty years passed before it was consecrated, on 3 January 1909.

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

"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 Broughton :

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

BaptismsMarriagesBurials
1890 - 1925 1909 - 1954 1889 - 1927

Bishop's Transcripts

I.G.I.

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Civil Registration

Having been formed from townships of the parish of Wrexham, the parish of Broughton was assigned to the Wrexham Registration District.

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

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

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Population

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Statistics

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Last Updated 5 May 2004 - Vic Roberts