Hope, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

Guide to Hope, Flintshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: civil registration, census records, and parish register transcripts.

History
Hope (Welsh: Yr Hôb) is a village, community 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.

HOPE, or ESTYN, a small borough and a parish, in the Hope division of the hundred of Maelor, county of Flint, on the road from Wrexham to Mold, 5 miles (N.N.W.) from the former, 6 miles (S.E.) from the latter, 12 1/2 (S.S.E.) from Flint, and 193 (N.W.) from London, containing 2747 inhabitantas. This place has been distinguished in the Welsh border history from a very early period. Its casle, situated about a mile from the village, has been generally known by the appellation of Caergwrle, which anciently was also probably applied to the whole pariash and is supposed to be derived from the ancient British words Caer gawr lleon, signifying "the fortress of the gigantic legion." ...The first mention of Hope under its present name occurs in the Norman survey, where it is noticed as a small hamlet in the possession of one Giselbert." (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis)

For more information on Hope see:
 * | Hope 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 Hope was DATE.

Nonconformist Chapel Records
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Civil Registration
The Civil Registration District for Hope is DATESANDNAMESCIVREG.

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

Websites

 * Vision of Britain - Hope
 * Hope Parish Church at Clwyd FHS
 * Hope War Memorial at Clwyd FHS