GENUKI : Flintshire, Bodelwyddan, St. Margaret

Bodelwyddan

The three townships of Bodelwyddan, Fuenol and Pengwern, which until that date had been part of the parish of St. Asaph, were gazetted as the new and separate parish of Bodelwyddan on the 3rd August 1860, covering an area of 4109 acres.

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Church Records

Civil Registration
Population
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Church History

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 004754.
The remarkable "Marble Church", dedicated to St. Margaret, was erected by Lady Willoughby de Broke in memory of her husband. She laid the foundation stone on the 24th July 1856; and the new church was consecrated by the Bishop of St. Asaph on the 23rd August 1860.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

Nonconformist Churches

"Welsh Church Commission - County of Flint - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist place of worship in the Civil parish of "Bodelwyddan":

Name of Chapel Denomination Number of "adherents"

Morfa Rhuddlan Calvinistic Methodist 62

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Morfa Rhuddlan	Calvinistic Methodist	62

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Church Records

Parish Registers

The following Parish Registers have been deposited at Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden. They may be viewed on microfilm at the Flintshire Record Office, the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin, and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. These microfilms are not available elsewhere.

Baptisms Marriages Burials

- 1860 - 1959 -

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
-	1860 - 1959	-

Bishop's Transcripts

No Bishop's Transcripts have been deposited.

I.G.I.

There are no official I.G.I. entries for St. Margaret's, Bodelwyddan.

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Civil Registration

The new parish of Bodelwyddan was assigned to the No. 1 ("St. Asaph") sub-district of the St. Asaph Registration District, which was co-extensive with the St. Asaph poor law Union.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Bodelwyddan are found under:

Years 1837 - 1851: St. Asaph XXVII.nnn
Years 1852 - 1946: St. Asaph 11b.nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)

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Population

In 1831- Bodelwyddan was not a separate parish.
In 1901- the population was 391.
[Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas (1911) gives the area of the parish as 4109 acres.

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Last updated 4 May 2004 - Vic Roberts