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Caerfallwch (Rhosesmor)

"This quiet little village, on the confines of Halkyn mountain, forms a remarkably pleasant excursion from Mold, from which it is about four miles distant. ... The highway branches off to the right, along a narrow lane that will prove attractive to the botanist, and the lover of wild flowers, for here nature displays her varied chorus, according to the season of the year, primroses, hyacinths, cowslips, wild roses, honeysuckle, ferns, foxgloves, and innumerable other wayside flowers gladden the sight, and give the air the redolence of their perfume."
[From Handy Guide to Mold and the Neighbourhood ; Tweddel, 1890]

The new parish of Caerfallwch was created on 23 October 1876, from part of the township of Caerfallwch, which until that time had been in the parish of Northop.
(The parish of Northop had already lost another part of the township of Caerfallwch in 1865, to the new parish of Rhydymwyn).

The "London Gazette" of the 27th October 1876 defined the boundaries of the new parish thus:

All that part of the parish of Northop in the county of Flint and in the diocese of Saint Asaph which is comprised within and is co-extensive with the limits of that portion of the township of Caerfallwch wherein the present incumbent of the said parish of Northop now possesses the exclusive cure of souls, or in other words, which consists of that portion of the said township of Caerfallwch which is not included within the limits of the consolidated chapelry of Saint John, Rhydymwyn, in the county and diocese aforesaid.

Church History Church Records

Civil Registration Population

Church History

"The township, which preserves the name of the imposing camp on Moel-y-Gaer, has also given its name to the new parish, but the site of the Church is known locally as Rhosesmor".
[From The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , Ven. D.R. Thomas, 1908]

Nonconformist Churches

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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
1876 - 1975	1877 - 1971	1876 - 1951

Bishop's Transcripts

• No Bishop's Transcripts have been deposited.

I.G.I.

• There are no official I.G.I. entries for St. Paul's, Caerfallwch.

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Nonconformist Records

• The following nonconformist registers for the Caerfallwch / Rhosesmor area are held at the Public Record Office, Kew.
  They may be viewed on microfilm at LDS Family History Centres; and at the Flintshire Record Office, the Denbighshire Record Office and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  They have also been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme (as "Northop, Rhosesmor") :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Type of Record	Years Covered	I.G.I. Batch Number
Bethel	Calvinistic Methodist	Births and Baptisms	1810 - 1837	C098351

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Civil Registration

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

• Years 1837 - 1851: Holywell XXVII.nnn
• Years 1852 - 1946: Holywell 11b.nnn

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

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Population

• In 1831- Caerfallwch was not a separate parish.
• In 1901- the population was 735.
  [Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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