Overton, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

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Overton Parish
Jurisdictions
County bef 1974	add here
County 1 Apr 1974-31 Mar 1996	add here
County 1 Apr 1996 -	add here
Civ Reg District	Ellesmere (1881)
Reg Sub-district	Overton (1881)
Probate Court	add here
Diocese	add here
Rural Deanery	add here
Chapelry	add here
Poor Law Union	Ellesmere
Hundred	Maylor
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Wales

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Parishes of Historic Flintshire

Overton

Guide to Overton, Flintshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: civil registration, census records, and parish register transcripts.

Overton Parish Church

Overton Parish

History[edit | edit source]

Overton (Welsh: Owrtyn), sometimes known as Overton-on-Dee, is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish in a rural part of the Wrexham, Wales.

Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Flintshire and, between 1974 and 1996 in the County of Clwyd. In 1996 it became part of the modern County Borough of Wrexham.

Overton became a town by the granting of a Royal Charter in 1292.
Ecclesiastical references of 1402 show that Overton was a chapelry of the parish of Bangor is y Coed. This parish was in the English diocese of Lichfield until 1541, when it was transferred to the newly created English diocese of Chester. In 1849 it was transferred to the Welsh diocese of St. Asaph.

The parish church of St. Mary's was built in the late 14th century but has seen much re-building.

On 20 December 1867, Overton became a separate parish, consisting of the townships of:

Overton Foreign
Overton Villa
Knolton
Maesgwaelod
Maeslewis.

Administration[edit | edit source]

Years	County
1before 31 March 1974	Flintshire (detached)
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.

The parish of Overton formed part of the Ellesmere Registrar's District.

Year	Parts
1841
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1901

Church Records[edit | edit source]

The following Overton Parish Registers have been deposited at the Flintshire Record Office in Hawarden:

Baptisms	1602 - 1859
Marriages:	1602 - 1934
Burials	1602 - 1957

The Clwyd Family History Society have published many of the Overton parish registers.
There are no official records available on the IGI for Overton parish.

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 Overton was DATE.

Nonconformist Chapel Records[edit | edit source]

XXXX-XXXX denotes that the information has not been compiled yet.

Chapel	Denomination	Year Founded	Baptism	Marriage	Death
CHAPELNAME	DENOMINATION	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
CHAPELNAME	DENOMINATION	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
CHAPELNAME	DENOMINATION	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
CHAPELNAME	DENOMINATION	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
CHAPELNAME	DENOMINATION	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
CHAPELNAME	DENOMINATION	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
CHAPELNAME	DENOMINATION	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
CHAPELNAME	DENOMINATION	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

The Civil Registration District for Overton is DATESANDNAMESCIVREG.

The parish of Overton formed part of the Overton sub-district of the Ellesmere Registration District and any entries for births, marriages or deaths from 1837 in Overton will appear as Ellesmere in the GRO Indexes.

Estates[edit | edit source]

Genealogies[edit | edit source]

Medieval Community Trees[edit | edit source]

Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]

Visit the England and Wales Poor Law Records page for more information.

The parish of Overton became part of the Ellesmere Union when it was created on 14 November 1836. The workhouse was built in Haughton, Ellesmere. The records for the Ellesmere Union are held at Shropshire Record Office in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.