GENUKI : Isycoed, St. Paul

Isycoed

"A parochial chapelry, in the parish of Holt, Union of Wrexham, hundred of Bromfield, county of Denbigh; 5 miles (E) from Wrexham."
[ A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis]

Until 1827, Isycoed was a sub-chapelry of Holt, which was itself a chapelry of Gresford.
In 1827, Isycoed became a separate parish, with an area of 3530 acres, comprising the townships of Cacca Dutton, Dutton Diffaeth, Dutton y Bran, Ridley, and Sutton. Although the parish of Gresford was (and still is) in the diocese of St. Asaph, Isycoed was in the diocese of Chester until 1849, when it was transferred to St. Asaph.

The parish of Isycoed should not be confused with the Flintshire parish of Bangor Isycoed, which lies a few miles to the south, nor with the Flintshire (Maelor Saesneg) parish of Iscoyd (also known as Whitewell).
They are three quite distinct and separate parishes.

For a map link to Isycoed village - see under Maps on Holt

Church History
Church Records
Civil Registration

Description and Travel
Population
Statistics

Church History

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 404501.
There was a church recorded on the site in 1718. This was replaced in 1742; and the present church, which is dedicated to St. Paul, was built in 1829.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

St Pauls, Ysycoed - on the sacred space site

Nonconformist Churches "Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905"lists the following nonconformist place of worship in the Civilparish of Dutton Diffaeth (comprising Cacca Dutton, Dutton y Bran, Ridley and Sutton):

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Bowling Bank	Calvinistic Methodists (English language)	180

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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
1749 - 1946	1750 - 1970	1750 - 1980

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

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1749 - 1813	1750 - 1837	1750 - 1813

Bishop's Transcripts

Bishop's Transcripts for the years shown below have been deposited in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester.
On 4 August 1989, these Bishop's Transcripts 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 Flintshire and Cheshire Record Offices.

Microfilmed copies of BT's
1749 1813 - 1849

I.G.I.

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

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Civil Registration

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

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Isycoed 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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Description and Travel

Ysycoed - on wikipedia

Ysycoed photographs - on geograph.org.uk

Population

In 1831- the population was 438.
In 1901- the population was 435.
[ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas gives the area of the parish as 3530 acres.
[ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

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Last Updated 9 Jan 2013 - Gareth Hicks