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Rhosymedre

The new parish of Rhosymedre was formed by an Order in Council on 24 May 1844, from the township of Coed Cristionydd and part of the township of Cristionydd Cynrig, which until then had been in the parish of Ruabon.
On 28 October 1879, a portion of the parish of Rhosymedre was transferred to the new parish of Penycae.

Church History Church Records Civil Registration

Population Statistics

Church History

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

A district church (or chapel of ease) to Rhosymedre was opened at Acrefair in 1894.

Nonconformist Churches

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Cefn Bychan	Baptists	150
Cefn Mawr Mission	Baptists (English language)	150
Ebenezer	Baptists (English language)	250
Seion	Baptists	950
Tabernacl	Baptists	450
Bethel (Acrefair)	Calvinistic Methodists	300
Hyfrydle	Calvinistic Methodists	120
Penybryn	Calvinistic Methodists	52
Saron	Calvinistic Methodists	120
Trinity (Acrefair)	Calvinistic Methodists (English language)	356
Not named	Congregationalists (English language)	360
Bethel, Rhosymedre	Congregationalists	120
Acrefair	Wesleyans (English language)	110
Cefn Bychan	Wesleyans (English language)	200
Gorphwysfa	Wesleyans	350
Salem	Wesleyans	100
Not named	United Methodist Free Church (English language)	60
Rhosymedre	Primitive Methodists (English language)	300

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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
1837 - 1992	1844 - 1988	1839 - 1974

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
1851	None

I.G.I.

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

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Civil Registration

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Rhosymedre 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 5677.
  [Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

• Archdeacon Thomas gives the "area" of the parish as one and a half by one and a quarter miles.
  [ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

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