Saltney, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

Introduction
Saltney is a small town in Flintshire, Wales. It is immediately to the west of the border with Cheshire in England and forms part of the Chester urban area.

The name is derived from the former salt marshes on which it is built, lying on the River Dee. Once the terminus of Sir John Glynne's Canal, Higher Saltney more commonly known by local people as "Top Saltney" (part of the area known locally as Saltney) is in Chester, Cheshire, with the Welsh sector of the community known more specifically as Saltney Town. The English-Welsh border runs down the middle of Boundary Lane in Saltney, the only urban street in England/Wales where this happens. This means that houses on the west side of the street are in the Flintshire County Council area and in the North Wales Police jurisdictions, while those on the east side are in the Cheshire West and Chester unitary authority area and in the Cheshire Police jurisdiction.

Census
1841 FHL BRITISH Film 464324 1851 p. 842-865 FHL BRITISH Film 87164 1861 FHL BRITISH Film 543003 1871 FHL BRITISH Film 842132 1881 FHL BRITISH Film 1341853 1891 RG 12/2869 (4 fiches) FHL BRITISH Fiche 6097979

Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

Poor Law Unions
Hawarden Poor Law Union