Higher Kinnerton, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

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

Higher Kinnerton is a residential village, community and ecclesiastical parish in Flintshire, Wales, very close to the Wales-England border. Its sister village, Lower Kinnerton, is across the border in Cheshire, England.

History
All Saints Church, a chapelry within the English parish of Dodleston, is in Main Road, Higher Kinnerton. It is an active Anglican church within the Diocese, Archdeaconry, and Deanery of Chester.

The church was designed by Douglas and Fordham and built in 1893. It is constructed in Ruabon brick. In addition to a central spire, the chancel is carried up into another pyramidal spire

Church Records
As the village was part of an English parish, the records are held in that country.

The England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000 index at FamilySearch Historic Records may be searched on-line for indexed entries for:


 * Parish registers for the township of Higher Kinnerton, 1868-1966 Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1997 Microfilm copy of original at the Cheshire Record Office in Chester, England. Higher Kinnerton is a township in Doddleston parish, but is in Flintshire. Cheshire Record Office call no.: P 115/12-13. Baptisms, 1868-1966 Marriages, 1894-1947 FHL BRITISH Film 2068902 Items 1-2

Census Records
1841 FHL BRITISH Film 464323 1851 p. 645-659 FHL BRITISH Film 87164 1861 FHL BRITISH Film 543003 1871 FHL BRITISH Film 842131 1881 FHL BRITISH Film 1341853 1891 RG 12/2869 (4 fiches) FHL BRITISH Fiche 6097979

Poor Law Union Records

 * Hawarden Poor Law Union

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Higher Kinnerton

Websites

 * Higher Kinnerton Church at Clwyd FHS