Rhesycae, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

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

Rhesycae is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Flintshire, 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 of Flintshire.

History
"RHESYCAE, a chapelry in Cilcen, Halkin, and Ysceifiog parishes, Flint; under the Halkin mountains, 4½ miles S W of Holywell r. station. It was constituted in 1848; and it has a post-office under Holywell. Pop.in 1861, 627. Houses, 138. Pop. of the H. portion, 441; of the Y. portion, 115." [Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72, John Marius Wilson]

For more information on Rhesycae see: Genuki - Rhesycae

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Rhesycae

Web Sites

 * Rhesycae Parish Church at Clwyd FHS
 * Rhesycae War Memorial at Clwyd FHS