Hope, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

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

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.

History
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

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Hope

Websites

 * Hope Parish Church at Clwyd FHS
 * Hope War Memorial at Clwyd FHS