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Llangollen

"A market town and parish, in the Union of Corwen, in the Nant Heudwy division of the hundred of Chirk, county of Denbigh, 21½ miles (SE by S) from Denbigh, 13½ (SE by S) from Ruthin, and 183 (NW) from London; comprising the two principal divisions of Glyn Traian and Llangollen Traian with Trevor Traian, each supporting its own poor by a separate assessment, and containing 4498 inhabitants. ..... The parish is very extensive, and the Vale of Llangollen is deservedly celebrated as containing, in proportion to its extent, a greater variety of interesting objects, and a more beautiful and striking combination of the milder and nobler features of pleasing and majestic scenery, than probably any other in the Principality."
[A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis]

The ancient parish of Llangollen was divided into three parts : Llangollen Traean, Trefor Traean, and Glyn Traean.
Llangollen Traean contained the townships of Bachau, Cysylltau, Llangollen Abad, Llangollen Fawr, Llangollen Fechan, Feifod, Pengwern and Rhisgog.
Trefor Traean contained the townships of Cilmediw, Dinbren, Eglwysegl, Trefor Isaf and Trefor Uchaf.
Glyn Traean contained the townships of Cilcochwyn, Crogeniddon, Crogenwladus, Erwallo, Hafodgynfor, Nantygwryd, Pennant and Talygarth.
On 15 April 1848, the whole of Glyn Traean, together with the township of Cysylltau from Llangollen Traean, went to form the new parish of Pontfadog.
Cysylltau returned to Llangollen in 1870.

Church History Church Records Civil Registration

Population Statistics

Church History

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

There are two district churches - at Froncysyllte and Trevor.

Froncysyllte

Trevor

Nonconformist Churches

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Castle Street	Baptists	500
Dr. Prichard Memorial	Baptists (English language)	105
Penllyn	Calvinistic Methodists	300
Rehoboth	Calvinistic Methodists	450
Glan'rafon	Congregationalists	170
Zion	Wesleyans	250
Not named	Wesleyans (English language)	117

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Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Carmel, Froncysyllte	Baptists	420
Noddfa, Garth	Baptists	227
Broncyssyllte (sic)	Calvinistic Methodists	220
Brynhyfryd, Garth	Calvinistic Methodists	236
Brynseion, Pontcysyllte	Calvinistic Methodists	195
Eirianallt, Berwyn	Calvinistic Methodists	52
Trefor	Calvinistic Methodists (English language)	80
Seion, Froncysyllte	Congregationalists	247
Soar, Trefor	Congregationalists	81
Mount Zion, Fron	Primitive Methodists (English language)	186

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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
1623 - 1964	1587 - 1986	1597 - 1971

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

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1670 - 1812	1670 - 1754	1670 - 1791

Bishop's Transcripts

• Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1662 to 1835 have been deposited in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; and those for the years 1836 to 1846 have been deposited at the Denbighshire Record Office.
  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
1662 - 1835	1662 - 1835

Deposited at the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin	Microfilmed copies
1836 - 1846	None

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
1813 - 1852	1813 - 1835

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Civil Registration

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

• Years 1837 - 1851: Corwen XXVII.nnn
• Years 1851 - 1930: Corwen 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 4498.
• In 1901- the population was 5704.
  [Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

• Archdeacon Thomas gives the area of the parish as 13,076 acres titheable, and the same again non-titheable.
  [The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

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