Shotton, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

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

Shotton is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish on the Dee Estuary 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
"SHOTTON, a township, with Ninehouses hamlet, in Hawarden parish, Flint; 3¼ miles WNW of Hawarden. Acres, 683. Real property, £670. Pop., 336. Houses, 79." [Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72, John Marius Wilson]

For more information on Shotton see:
 * | Shotton at Genuki

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Shotton

Websites

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