Denbighshire

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Denbigh / Dinbych

"A borough, market town, and parish, having exclusive jurisdiction, in the Union of St. Asaph, locally in the hundred of Isaled, county of Denbigh (of which it is the ancient shire town); 218 miles (NW) from London, on the road from Ruthin to St. Asaph, containing 3786 inhabitants. ..... The town is picturesquely situated in the centre of the rich and beautiful Vale of Clwyd, partly at the base, and partly at the aclivity, of a steep, isolated, rocky eminence, the summit of which is crowned by the venerable remains of the castle. ..... The environs abound with beautiful and richly varied scenery; the air is remarkably salubrious; the land in the vicinity is rich and in a high state of cultivation; and in the immediate neighbourhood are numerous splendid seats and elegant villas, inhabitated by opulent families, whom the advantages of its situation have induced to select Denbigh for their residence. "
[A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis]

Church History Church Records Civil Registration

Population Statistics

Church History

Nonconformist Churches

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Not named	Baptists	150
Brookhouse	Calvinistic Methodists	98
Capel Mawr	Calvinistic Methodists	850
Fron	Calvinistic Methodists	235
Glyn	Calvinistic Methodists	100
Henllan	Calvinistic Methodists	320
Seion, Henllan Street	Calvinistic Methodists	225
Vale Street	Calvinistic Methodists (English language)	220
Green	Congregationalists	65
Swan Lane Tower Hill Brookhouse	Congregationalists	565
Henllan	Wesleyans	30
Pendref	Wesleyans	350
Salem	Wesleyans	80
Bodawen	FC (sic)	106

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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.

	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
All four Churches	1683 - 1983	1686 - 1876	1683 - 1984
St. Mary's		1876 - 1981
St. David's		1897 - 1980
St. Marcella's		1928 - 1970

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

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1683 - 1812	1683 - 1812	1683 - 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
1671 - 1842	1671 - 1842

I.G.I.

• The following have been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme.
  They were extracted from the Bishop's Transcripts, not from the Parish Registers.

Baptisms	Marriages
1815 - 1842	1815 - 1837

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Civil Registration

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

• Years 1837 - 1851: St. Asaph XXVII.nnn
• Years 1851 - 1930: St. Asaph 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 3786.
• In 1901- the population was 5301.
  [Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

• Archdeacon Thomas gives the area of the parish as 1772 acres.
  [ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

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