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County of Gwynedd

Guide to County of Gwynedd, Wales ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. Gwynned was created from the historic county of Caernarfonshire. View the Caernarfonshire County page.

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1974 - 1996 County of Gwynedd

Gwynedd 1974

The county of Gwynedd, in the north-west of Wales, was formed during the controversial re-organisation of local government in Wales in 1974.
It consisted of the whole of the historic counties of Anglesey and Caernarfonshire; the majority of Merionethshire (with the exception of the Edeirnion Rural District which became part of the newly formed county of Clwyd); and the Conwy Valley parishes of Llanrwst, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Eglwysbach, Llanddoged, Llanrwst and Tir Ifan from Denbighshire.

This new county was divided into five districts:

Aberconwy
Arfon
Anglesey
Dwyfor
Meirionnydd

The county town was Caernarfon.

The county was named after the independent Kingdom of Gwynedd which covered the north-west of Wales from the end of the Roman period until the 13th Century.

Modern County of Gwynedd

Gwynedd 1996

Further re-organisation of local government in Wales abolished the county of Gwynedd, and its five districts, on 1 April 1996.

The county of Gwynedd was split up into three new Unitary Authorities:

Gwynedd (with very different boundaries to the previous county of the same name)
Anglesey (with the same boundaries as the historic county of the same name)
County Borough of Conwy (also taking in parts of the former county of Clwyd)

Caernarfon remained the county town.

Parishes

See a list of the parishes in Merionethshire with links to their pages.
Interactive map of Merionethshire Parishes.

Online Records

1542-1911 Wales Court and Miscellaneous Records, 1542-1911 at FamilySearch How to Use this Collection; index & images
1650-1900 Wales, Marriage Bonds, 1650-1900 at FamilySearch How to Use this Collection; index
1678-2001 Wales, Parish Registers, 1678-2001 at FamilySearch How to Use this Collection; index

Communities

Communities in Gwynedd