Brymbo, Wrexham

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Brymbo is a village and ecclesiastical parish in the County Borough of Wrexham in Wales. It was part of the historic county of Denbighshire.

History

BRYMBO a joint township with Broughton in that part of the parish of Wrexham which is in the hundred of Bromfield, county of Denbigh, north Wales, 5 miles (N. by N.W.) from Wrexham. A church was erected in the year 1841, with the aid, principally, of Her Majesty's Church Commissioners

Administration

Years	County
before 31 March 1974	Denbighshire
1 April 1974 - 31 March 1996	Clwyd
from 1 April 1996,	Wrexham

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

The parish of Wrexham, and later the parish of Brymbo, formed part of the Wrexham Registrar's District.

Year	Parts
1841	missing
1851	HO107/
1861	RG9/
1871	RG10/
1881	RG11/
1891	RG12/
1901

 

Nonconformist Church Records

The following records have been published:

Chapel	Source	Baptisms
Gyfynus Independent	Clwyd FHS Blackwell Index CD	1827-1837
Harwd Calvinistic Methodist	Clwyd FHS Blackwell Index CD	1829-1837
Harwd Calvinistic Methodist	C101341	1829-1837

Civil Records

Births, marriages and deaths in Brymbo are recorded in the GRO indexes as:

Years	Sub-district	District	Volumes
1 Jul 1837 - 1974	Wrexham	Wrexham	XXVII (1837-51) 11b (1852-1946) 8A (1946-74)

Poor Law Union

The Wrexham Union was created on 30 March 1837 and the parish of Wrexham, and later the parish of Brymbo, formed part of this. A workhouse was built at Croesnewydd in Wrexham. The records of the Wrexham Union are now held at Denbighshire Record Office in Ruthin.

 

 

 

Websites

• Brymbo War Memorial at Clwyd FHS
• Brymbo Parish Church at Clwyd FHS