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The new parish of Bwlchgwyn was formed by an Order in Council on 5 March 1880, from a portion of the parish of Brymbo, and a small part of the parish of Llanfynydd (in Flintshire).
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- Kendrick, Edward. Hanes Bwlchgwyn, ger Gwrecsam Gwrecsam : Argraffwyd dros yr awdwr gan Hughes a'i Fab, [18--?]
- Mercer, Thomas J. Christ Church (Bwlchgwyn) Gwernymynydd : Clwyd Family History Society, 2002.
- Mercer, Thomas J. Salem Chapel (Bwlchgwyn) Gwernymynydd : Clwyd Family History Society, 2001.
Ordnance Survey reference SJ 266534.
A combined school and chapel of ease was built in 1867. It was later converted to a church by adding a chancel, vestry and porch, and was consecrated as Christ Church on 1 October 1879.
The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.
Nonconformist Churches
Nonconformist places of worship for Bwlchgwyn were included in the "Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" under the Civil parish of Brymbo. Details will be found on the parish page for Brymbo.
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 |
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1880 - 1990 | 1882 - 1983 | 1881 - 1990 |
Bishop's Transcripts
- No Bishop's Transcripts have been deposited for St. Mary's, Cefn.
I.G.I.
- There are no official I.G.I. entries for Christ Church, Bwlchgwyn.
Having been formed chiefly from townships of the ancient parish of Wrexham, the parish of Bwlchgwyn was assigned to the Wrexham Registration District.
In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Bwlchgwyn 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)
Bwlchgwyn - on wikipedia
Various landscapes on the People's Collection Wales site
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bwlchgwyn to another place.
"North-East Wales Churches and Ancient Parish Boundaries" produced by Clwyd Record Office in 1994, published by Genuki with the permission of Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ265533 (Lat/Lon: 53.071856, -3.098471), Bwlchgwyn which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Heth Jones enlisted with the forces in 1915 - on the People's Collection Wales site [After the end of the War, he worked in a silicone quarry in Bwlchgwyn]
Bwlchgwyn quarrymen on the People's Collection Wales site
- In 1831- this was not a separate parish.
- In 1901- the population was 1183.
[ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]