GENUKI : Colwyn

Colwyn

"Colwyn district, originally assigned in 1844 and re-arranged in 1872, consists of the townships of Eirias, Colwyn, and Cilgwyn, out of the parish of Llandrillo; a portion of Llanelian, and the hamlets of Graig out of the parish of Llysfaen. These limits remain intact, with the exception of the township of Cilgwyn, which has been transferred to form part of the new parish of Brynmaen."
[From Colwyn Bay Weekly News and Visitors Chronicle, 20 October 1899]

Church History
Church Records
Civil Registration

Population
Statistics

Church History

St Catherine

St John

Nonconformist Churches

Nonconformist places of worship for Colwyn were included in the "Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" under the Civil parish of Colwyn Bay. Details will be found on the parish page for Colwyn Bay.

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Church Records

Parish Registers

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

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1838 - 1914	See St Catherine's and St John's	1846 - 1952

Bishop's Transcripts

No Bishop's Transcripts have been deposited for the parish of Colwyn.

I.G.I.

There are no official I.G.I. entries for Colwyn.

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Civil Registration

The new parish of Colwyn was assigned to the Conwy Registration District.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Colwyn are in the format :

Years 1837 - 1851: Conwy XXVII.nnn
Years 1851 - 1930: Conwy 11b.nnn

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

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Population

In 1831- this was not a separate parish.
In 1901- the population was 2210.
[Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas gives the area of the parish as 650 acres.
[ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

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Last Updated 22 Nov 2009 - Gareth Hicks