Selattyn, Shropshire Genealogy

Guide to Selattyn, Shropshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Selattyn (Welsh: Selatyn) is the a rural village and parish near Oswestry in Shropshire, England, on the border with Wales. The parish includes the townships of Upper and Lower Brogyntyn (formerly crudely transliterated as Porkington), and also the hamlet of Hengoed.

Parish History
In 1848 - SELATTYN (St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Oswestry, N. division of Shropshire, 3¼ miles (N. N. W.) from Oswestry.

Close to Selattyn lies the ruined Castell Brogyntyn, constructed by the Welsh around the 12th Century. The castle is associated with Owain Brogyntyn, son of Madog ap Maredudd, the last king of a united Powys. The area only became part of Shropshire when it was annexed by England in the 16th Century. The original manor house of Brogyntyn was the residence of members of the dynasty of the Welsh kingdom of Powys and one of the taî'r uchelwyr ("houses of the gentry") in late medieval Wales. It subsequently came into the possession of the Ormsby-Gore family (the Lords Harlech). An important collection of both Welsh and English manuscripts from Brogyntyn is held at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. Some of the Brogyntyn Manuscripts have been digitised and made available on-line.

The parish of Selattyn originally formed part of the Welsh Diocese of St Asaph. However, following the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Wales in 1920, the parish was transferred to the English Diocese of Lichfield.

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Census Records
The parish of Selattyn formed part of the Oswestry Registrar's District.

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Chapelries of Selattyn
Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Civil Records
The parish of Selattyn formed a sub-district of the Oswestry Registration District and any entries for births, marriages or deaths from 1837 in Selattyn will appear as Oswestry in the GRO Indexes.

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Selattyn/index.html


 * Ordnance Survey map of Selattyn