Rhosymedre, Denbighshire, Wales Genealogy

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Rhosymedre 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	Wrexham (1881)
Reg Sub-district	Ruabon (1881)
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Poor Law Union	Wrexham
Hundred	Bromfield
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Denbighshire Parishes

Rhosymedre

A guide to genealogy in Rhosymedre, with information on where to find birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records; census records; wills; cemeteries; maps; etc.

Rhosymedre is a village and ecclesiastical parish in the Wrexham in Wales. Today Rhosymedre is in the community of Cefn.

History[edit | edit source]

The parish of Rhosymedre was created in 1844 from the Ruabon townships of Coed Cristionydd and Cristionydd Cynrig. The parish contains the villages of Cefn Mawr, Cefn Bychan, Acrefair, Newbridge, Plas Madoc and Rhosymedre.

The parish church, St. John the Evangelist, was consecrated on 6 July 1837. However, in 1894 a new chapel of ease, St. Paul's , was built as a chapel of ease in Acrefair.

In 1879, part of the township of Cristionydd Cynrig was transferred to the new parish of Penycae.

The area was formerly heavily industrialised with large deposits of iron, coal and clay. Iron was worked at Acrefair; Cefn Mawr and Plas Madoc. In 1867 Robert Graesser, an industrial chemist from Obermosel in Saxony, Germany established a chemical works at Plas Kynaston in Cefn Mawr to extract paraffin oil and wax from the local shale. This was the start of the long association with the chemical industry. The site was later acquired by the American chemical company Monsanto, their first venture in Europe. Coal was worked throughout the parish and large brickworks existed at Acrefair and Newbridge.

Much of the mineral wealth of the area was exported by canal over the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Shropshire Union Canal, until the railway reached Ruabon in 1855.

For more information see: Rhosymedre, Denbighshire at GENUKI

Administration[edit | edit source]

Years	County
pre 1536	Powys Fadog
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
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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 Rhosymedre was DATE.

Nonconformist Chapel Records[edit | edit source]

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Chapel	Denomination	Year Founded	Baptism	Marriage	Death
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