GENUKI : Flintshire, Nannerch, St. Michael

Nannerch

"The surface is strikingly undulated, rising into bold and abrupt eminences in various parts; and the lands, which are principally arable, with a proportion of meadow and pasture land, are in a good state of cultivation; the soil is mostly gravelly, and well adapted to the growth of corn."
[From Handbook for the Vale of Clwyd, William Davis, 1856]

Nannerch is one of the "ancient parishes" of Flintshire, comprising the townships of Trellan, Trefechan, Trecwm and Tre Penbedw (the latter was in Denbighshire until the county boundary was moved in 1897).

Bibliography
Church History
Church Records
Civil Registration

Description and Travel
Maps
Population
Statistics

Bibliography

Formby, Hazel. Nannerch - a connection with the Gunpowder Plot Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 54 (Winter 2005/6), p.12-5
Lewis, J B An account of the Penbedw papers in the Flintshire Record Office Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 25 1971/72 Welsh Journals Online
Nannerch Parish Church : Gwernymynydd : Clwyd Family History Society, 1999.

Church History

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 166696.
The old church, which was dedicated to St. Mary, was demolished in 1852, and a new building was erected on the same site. The new church, which is dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels, was consecrated on 29 September 1853.

"The church was designed by Thomas W. Wyatt, of London, the architect of the neighbouring churches of Brynford and Gorsedd, and that gentleman is deserving of all praise for the skill and ability displayed. The church is a model of taste and propriety for a Welsh village church."
[From Handbook for the Vale of Clwyd, William Davis, 1856]

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 places of worship in the Civilparish of Nannerch :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Penyfelin	Calvinistic Methodist	140
Waendomarch - Welsh	Congregational	30
Bryngoleu - Welsh	Wesleyan	36

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Church Records

Parish Registers

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

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1664 - 1892	1664 - 1970	1664 - 1889

Clwyd FHS has published full transcriptions of the registers (complete with indexes) for the following years :

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1664 - 1812	1664 - 1812	1664 - 1812

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 Flintshire and Denbighshire 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
1667 - 1851	1672 - 1851

I.G.I.

The following have been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme.
They were extracted from the Bishop's Transcripts, not from the Parish Registers.

Type of Record	Years Covered	I.G.I. Batch Number
Baptisms	1813 - 1851	C056661
Marriages	None	-

Nonconformist Records

The following nonconformist registers for the Nannerch 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 and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The Pen y Felin records (only) have also been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Type of Record	Years Covered	I.G.I. Batch Number
Pen y Felin	Calvinistic Methodist	Births and Baptisms	1820 - 1836	C098271
Waundomarch	Congregational / Independent	Births and Baptisms	1808 - 1837	?

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Civil Registration

When Civil Registration was introduced (on 1 July 1837), the parish of Nannerch was assigned to the No. 2 ("Holywell") sub-district of the Holywell Registration District, which was co-extensive with the Holywell poor law Union.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Nannerch 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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Description and Travel

Nannerch - on wikipedia

Nannerch Station

Nannerch - on Vision of Britain

Nannerch photographs - on geograph.org.uk

Maps

View maps covering the area of this parish and places within its boundaries

On Clwyd FHS's site there is a diagram showing parish names/positions with links to pages for the parish church

Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348. Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county

Population

In 1831- the population was 384.
In 1901- the population was 297.
[ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas (1911) gives the area of the parish as 2900 acres.

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Last Updated 8 Jan 2013 - Gareth Hicks