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Whitford / Chwitffordd

"This parish rises for the most part gradually from the shore of the wide æstuary of the Dee, by which it is bounded on the east and north-east, into hills of considerable elevation. ..... The village, which is of small size, but contains several neat houses, is pleasantly situated at no great distance from the Chester and Holyhead road, and near the head of a small valley, which, deepening in its course, stretches towards the sea, having its sides beautifully fringed with woods."
[A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, S. Lewis, 1834]

Whitford is one of the "ancient parishes" of Flintshire. It originally comprised the nine townships of Bychton, Ednywain (or Trefednywain), Maesbledrys, Mertyn Isglan, Mertyn Uwch Glan, Tre'rabad, Tre'r Llan (or Whitford Lan), Tre Mostyn and Whitford Garn.
On 23 May 1844, it lost the townships of Bychton and Mertyn Isglan, and part of the township of Tre Mostyn, to the newly created parish of Mostyn.
On 19 August 1853, part of the township of Mertyn Uwch Glan was lost to the new parish of Gorsedd.

Church History Church Records Civil Registration

Population Statistics

Church History

Nonconformist Churches

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Penygelli, Lloc - Welsh	Baptist	50
Bethel, Mostyn, Welsh	Calvinistic Methodist	145
Carmel	Calvinistic Methodist	87
Salem, Llanerchymor - Welsh	Calvinistic Methodist	170
Cyssegr, Mostyn - Welsh	Congregational	150
Not named, Mostyn - English	Congregational	150
Llynhelyg - Welsh	Congregational	37
Zion, Mostyn - Welsh	Congregational	120
Bryn Seion - Welsh	Wesleyan	200
Lloc - Welsh	Wesleyan	104

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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
1643 - 1938	1656 - 1926	1662 - 1882

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

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1643 - 1812	1656 - 1812	1662 - 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
1664 - 1837	1734 - 1837

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	1814 - 1837	C056731
Marriages	None	-

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Nonconformist Records

• The following nonconformist registers for the Whitford / Mostyn 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.
  All, except Cysegr, 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, Rhewl Mostyn	Calvinistic Methodist	Births and Baptisms	1814 - 1837	C098231
Seion, Carmel	Calvinistic Methodist	Births and Baptisms	1815 - 1837	C098221
Salem, Llanerch y Mor	Calvinistic Methodist	Births and Baptisms	1829 - 1837	C098201
Cysegr, Rhewl Mostyn	Independent / Congregational	Births and Baptisms	1821 - 1837	-

• The following nonconformist registers for the Whitford / Mostyn area are held either at the Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden (FRO) or at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (NLW).
  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	Held at
Salem, Llanerch y Mor	Calvinistic Methodist	Baptisms	1919 - 1964	NLW
Cysegr, Mostyn	Congregational	Baptisms	1832 - 1900	NLW
Seion, Carmel	Congregational	Burials	1862 - 1988	FRO

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Civil Registration

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Whitford 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- the population was 3333.
• In 1901- the population was 908.
  [Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas (1911) gives the area of the parish as 3500 acres.

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