Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

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

History
Rhyl (Welsh: Y Rhyl) is a seaside town, community and ecclesiastical parish in Flintshire, Wales.

Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Flintshire and, between 1874 and 1996 in the County of Clwyd. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Denbighshire. Rhyl is a township in Hawarden Parish, and was formed as an EP in 1902.

The town is divided into the four ecclesiastical parishes of:


 * Holy Trinity
 * St. Thomas
 * St. John
 * St. Ann

"RHYL, a township in that part of the parish of Rhuddlan which is in the hundred of Prestatyn, count of Flint, 2 miles (N.N.W.) from the town of Rhuddlan. ...This place, which is situated at the northern extremity of the parish, and at the lower end of the fertile Valley of Clwyd, previously to the year 1820, consisted only of a few scattered dwellings; but since that time, from the pleasantness of its situation on the coast of the Irish sea, along the margin of which some fine smooth and firm sands here extend for several miles, it has become a place of favourite resort for sea-bathing." (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis)

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

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

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

Websites

 * Vision of Britain - Rhyl
 * Rhyl Parish Churches at Clwyd FHS
 * Rhyl War Memorial at Clwyd FHS