Chirk, Denbighshire, Wales Genealogy

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Chirk Parish
Jurisdictions
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County 1 Apr 1974-31 Mar 1996	add here
County 1 Apr 1996 -	add here
Civ Reg District	Oswestry (1881)
Reg Sub-district	St. Martin (1881)
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Poor Law Union	Oswestry
Hundred	Chirk
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Wales

Wrexham

Denbighshire Parishes

Chirk

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Chirk (Welsh: Y Waun) is a small town, community and ecclesiastical parish in the Wrexham, Wales, between the towns of Wrexham and Oswestry.

History[edit | edit source]

CHIRK, a parish, in the union of Oswestry, hundred of Chirk, county of Denbigh, North Wales, 5¾ miles (N.) from Oswestry, on the road from London to Holyhead and Dublin. This parish is remarkable in history as the scene of a conflict between part of the forces of Henry II. and the Welsh, which took place in 1165, in a deep and picturesque valley, along which runs the river Ceiriog, on the west and south sides of Chirk Castle. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome edifice, with a square tower containing a ring of bells, and measures fifty-seven feet in length and thirty-nine in width. ^[1]

The town of Chirk, and much of the surrounding area was for centuries under the influence of nearby Chirk Castle and, later, the Trevor family of Brynkinallt in Chirk.

The parish of Chirk was divided into five townships:

Chirk
Halton (Welsh: Halchdyn)
Brynkinallt (Welsh: Bryncunallt)
Pen y Clawdd
Gwernospin

Chirk was formerly a coal mining community, with coal being worked since the 17th century. The largest of these collieries were Black Park (one of the oldest in the north of Wales) and Brynkinallt. All mining ceased in the area during the 1960s.

It was a coaching stop on the old mail coach route along the A5 road from London to Holyhead.

The Chester to Ruabon railway had been extended south to Shrewsbury by 1848 with stations at Llangollen Road (at Whitehurst) and Chirk. South of the town a railway viaduct was constructed by Henry Robertson to take the line over the Ceiriog Valley.

Administration[edit | edit source]

Years	County
before1536	Chirkland
1536 - 31 March 1974	Denbighshire
1 April 1974 - 31 March 1996	Clwyd
from 1 April 1996	Wrexham

Resources[edit | edit source]

Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Parish Registers[edit | edit source]

Church of Wales Chapels and Parish Registers
Parish	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
PARISH NAME	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
PARISH NAME	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
PARISH NAME	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
Bishop's Transcripts
Bishop Transcripts: Christenings, Marriages, Burials and Christenings and Burials	[URL YEARS]

Parish Chest[edit | edit source]

Vestry minutes (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Church warden accounts (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Tithe Records[edit | edit source]

The tithe agreement date for Chirk was DATE.

Nonconformist Chapel Records[edit | edit source]

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Chapel	Denomination	Year Founded	Baptism	Marriage	Death
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