GENUKI : Rhosllanerchrugog, St. John

Rhosllanerchrugog

The new parish of Rhosllanerchrugog was formed on 3 September 1844, from the township of Morton Above, and part of the township of Dynhinlle Ucha, which until then had been in the parish of Ruabon.

Church History
Church Records
Civil Registration

Population
Statistics

Church History

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 292460.
The new church, which is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, was consecrated on 4 October 1853.

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 Rhosllanerchrugog :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Bethania, Church Street	Baptists	279
Calfaria, Duke Street, Ponciau	BS (sic)	100
Dysgyblion Crist	Baptists	Not stated
Mount Pleasant, Ponciau	Baptists (English language)	200
Noddfa, Johnstown	Baptists	64
Penuel, High Street	Baptists	1021
Zion, Bank Street, Ponciau	Baptists	650
Soar, Aberderfyn, Ponciau	Baptists	80
Tabernacl, Chapel Street, Ponciau	BS (sic)	250
Bethel, Ponciau	Calvinistic Methodists	355
Capel Mawr and Pentrefelin	Calvinistic Methodists	1200
Hill Street	Calvinistic Methodists (English language)	480
Moriah, New Street	Calvinistic Methodists	200
Siloh, Johnstown	Calvinistic Methodists	191
Bethlehem	Congregationalists	900
Christ Church, Johstown	Congregationalists (English language)	230
Mynydd Seion, Ponciau	Congregationalists	487
Salem, Bank Street	Congregationalists	270
Johnstown	Wesleyans	70
Not named	Wesleyans	150
Not named	Primitive Methodists (English language)	230

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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
1853 - 1906	1854 - 1930	1853 - 1920

Bishop's Transcripts

There are no Bishop's Transcripts for St. John's, Rhosllanerchrugog.

I.G.I.

There are no official I.G.I. entries for St. John's, Rhosllanerchrugog.

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Civil Registration

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

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Rhosllanerchrugog 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 9208.
[Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas gives the area of the parish as about 2000 acres.
[ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

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Last Updated 23 Nov 2009 - Gareth Hicks