Whitford, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

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

History
Whitford (Welsh: Chwitffordd) 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.

"WHITFORD, a parish in the Holywell division of the hundred of Coleshill county of Flint, 3 miles (N.W. by W.) from Holywell, containing 3333 inhabitants. This parish rises for the most part gradually form the shore of the wide aestuary of the Dee, by which it is bounded on the east nad north-east, into hills of considerable elevation; it comprises an extent of nearly eight thousand acres of land." (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis)

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

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

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

Websites

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