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Llanasa

"The beautiful village of Llanasa is situated in a pleasant valley at the northern extremity of the county, on the south-western shore of the estuary of the Dee, near its influx with the Irish sea ...... In this neighbourhood are several genteel residences."
[From A Visitor's Guide to Rhyl and its Vicinity, D. Lloyd Lewis, 1852.]

Llanasa is one of the "ancient parishes" of Flintshire. It originally comprised the townships of Gronant, Gwespyr, Kelston, Golden Grove, Picton, Axtyn and Trelogan.
In 1812, an embankment nearly two miles in length was built, allowing a large area of fertile land to be reclaimed from the sea. This area became the township of Trewaelod.
A portion of the township of Gronant was lost to the new parish of Prestatyn in 1860.

Cemeteries Church History Church Records Description and Travel

Civil Registration Population Statistics

Cemeteries

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Church History

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

Nonconformist Churches

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Number of "adherents"
Acstyn - Welsh	Baptist	35
Gwespyr	Calvinistic Methodist	136
Gwynfa, Penyffordd	Calvinistic Methodist	120
Gronant	Calvinistic Methodist	189
Moriah, Ffynnongroyw	Calvinistic Methodist	180
Trelogan	Calvinistic Methodist	249
Sarn - Welsh	Congregational	98
Siloa, Fynnongroyw - Welsh	Congregational	100
St. Andrew's, Ffynnongroyw - English	Congregational	65
Bethania, Ffynnongroyw - Welsh	Wesleyan	360
Bethel, Gronant - Welsh	Wesleyan	100
Groes - Welsh	Wesleyan	170
Gwespyr - Welsh	Wesleyan	140
Mynydd Seion, Trelogan - Welsh	Wesleyan	90
Peniel, Penyffordd - Welsh	Wesleyan	130

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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
1629 - 1863	1629 - 1882	1629 - 1890

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

Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
1629 - 1812	1629 - 1812	1629 - 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
1663 - 1837	1670 - 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	C056631
Marriages	None	-

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Nonconformist Records

• The following nonconformist registers for the Llanasa 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 :

Name of Chapel	Denomination	Type of Record	Years Covered	I.G.I. Batch Number
Gronant, Mynydd Seion	Calvinistic Methodist	Births and Baptisms	1818 - 1836	C098311
Trelogan, Disgwlfa	Calvinistic Methodist	Births and Baptisms	1818 - 1837	C098301

• The following nonconformist registers for the Llanasa area are held 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
Gronant, Mynydd Seion	Calvinistic Methodist	Baptisms	1818 - 1986	FRO
Gwespyr	Calvinistic Methodist	Baptisms	1911 - 1934 1943 - 1960	NLW
Trelogan, Disgwlfa	Calvinistic Methodist	Baptisms	1887 - 1915 1910 - 1949	NLW FRO
"Circuit"	Wesleyan	Births and Baptisms	1841 - 1961	FRO

• Note - The Wesleyan chapels were grouped into a "Circuit", with one set of registers serving the Circuit.
  It may not always be possible to identify the particular chapel in which the ceremony was performed.

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Description and Travel

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Civil Registration

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Llanasa 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 2373.
• In 1901- the population was 1718.
  [Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

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Statistics

Archdeacon Thomas (1911) gives the area of the parish of Llanasa as 6000 acres.

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