GENUKI : Penycae, St. Thomas

Penycae

The new parish of Penycae was formed by an Order in Council on 28 October 1879, from portions of the parishes of Ruabon, Rhosllanerchrugog, and Rhosymedre.

Church History
Church Records

Civil Registration
Population

Church History

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 276453.
The new church, dedicated to St. Thomas, was consecrated on 6 December 1878.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

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 Penycae :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Salem	Baptists	361
Sion, Groes	Baptists (English language)	88
Groes	Calvinistic Methodists	165
Tai Nant	Calvinistic Methodists	112
Soar, Stryt Issa	Wesleyans	200
Copperas	Primitive Methodists (English language)	100

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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
1880 - 1919	1880 - 1971	1881 - 1952

Bishop's Transcripts

There are no Bishop's Transcripts for St. Thomas, Penycae.

I.G.I.

There are no official I.G.I. entries for St. Thomas, Penycae.

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Civil Registration

The new parish of Penycae was assigned to the Wrexham Registration District.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Penycae 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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Population

In 1831- this was not a separate parish.
In 1901- the population was 3046.
[Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Last Updated 23 Nov 2009 - Gareth Hicks