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Pontblyddyn (Pontbleiddyn)

The parish of Pontbleiddyn (or Pontblyddyn) was created on 23 May 1844, from "the township of Leeswood, excepting the houses and farms of Pentrehobyn and Tynewydd, the whole of the township of Hartsheath, and that part of the township of Bistre which lies south of the Mold and Broughton turnpike road".
All this area had been in the parish of Mold until that date.
(The new parish of Bistre was created on the same day, from other parts of the parish of Mold).

Church History Church Records

Civil Registration Population

Church History

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

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
1836 - 1965	1839 - 1948	1836 - 1946

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
1836 - 1851	1836 - 1843

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	1836 - 1843	C056701
Marriages	None	-

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Nonconformist Records

• The following nonconformist registers for the Pontbleiddyn 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.
  They 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
Bethel, Leeswood / Coed Llai	Calvinistic Methodist	Births and Baptisms	1821 - 1836	C100391

• The following nonconformist registers for the Pontbleiddyn area are held at the Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden.
  They have not been filmed; and they have not been incorporated into the I.G.I. :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Type of Record	Years Covered
Bethel, Leeswood / Coed Llai	Calvinistic Methodist	Baptisms and Marriages	1866 - 1985

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Civil Registration

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Pontbleiddyn 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- Pontbleiddyn was not a separate parish.
• In 1901- the population was 1417.
  [Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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