Rhosymedre, Denbighshire, Wales Genealogy

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
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

Parish Chest
Vestry minutes (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Church warden accounts (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Tithe Records
The tithe agreement date for Rhosymedre was DATE.

Nonconformist Chapel Records
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Civil Registration
The Civil Registration District for Rhosymedre is DATES AND NAMES CIV REG.

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

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Rhosymedre at Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Rhosymedre Parish Church at Clwyd FHS
 * Cefn Mawr War Memorial at Clwyd FHS