Wrexham

Wrexham Archives and Local Studies Service

• Blackwell, Colin.     From Wrexham to Fromelles (a Boy Soldiers short life)     Hel achau, No. 104 (Mawrth / March 2010), p. 54-59.
• Bordessa, D.  Old Wrexham         [S.l.] : Adebo Press, c2008.
• Boyd,  James I. C.         The Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay railway    Oxford : Oakwood Press, 1991
• Brooks, Ron.  Rochdale, Wrexham, and the University tutorial class movement in north-west Wales, 1907-14      Welsh History Review 20   Welsh Journals Online
• Byrne, Kathryn.       St Mary's Cathedral Wrexham          Werxham : Bridge Books, 2007.
• Chaloner, Joan.    Wrexham hospitals       Wrexham : Bridge Books, 2005.  
• Chirk Castle, Wrexham / Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol = The National Trust.         Rev. ed         [Swindon?] : National Trust, 2007 [reprinted 2009]  
• Cliffe, Vic.    Helping the needy in Wrexham      Hel achau, No. 93 (July 2007), p. 14-15
• Crocker's Wrexham directory and postal guide for 1881-82, ...         Shrewsbury : Crocker, [1881]
• Davies,  Gareth M. and Peter Jones.    Wrexham Football Club, 1872-1950      Stroud, Gloucs. : Tempus, 2000.
• Davies, Grahame.     Real Wrexham            Bridgend : Seren, 2007.
• Davies, Jonathan.    John Bury and the emerging middle class of Victorian Wrexham          Trafodion (Denbighshire Historical Society), Vol. 55 (2007), p. 144-164.
• Dodd, A H (ed).   A History of Wrexham, Denbighshire   Wrexham 1990 (& 1957)
• Early Methodism in and around Wrexham c.1750-1805 / by the editor.       Bathafarn, Vol. 18 (1963), p. 22-41
• Fletcher, Allan.   Richard Gwyn - Wrexham's martyr     Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 49 (Autumn 2002), p. 10-12
• Herbert, Reg.   Wrexham and district        Wrexham : Wrexham Advertising Services, [1996?]
• Hornsey, Brian.   Ninety years of cinema in Wrexham           [Wrexham] : Brian Hornsey, 1990.
• Jones, Beryl M.    The clockmakers and watchmakers of Wrexham 1650-1900         Trafodion (Denbighshire Historical Society), Vol. 56 (2008), p. 101-120
• Jones, Derek M. and Beryl M.         Wrexham breweries and inns             Wrexham : Bridge Books, 2001.
• Jones,  John  Solicitor, Wrexham.      Wrexham and its neighbourhood        2nd ed.         Wrexham : R. Potter, 1868.
• Jones, Peter.     Wrexham     Derby : Breedon, 1992.
• Jones,  Russell H.     Wrexham villages  Volume 1, West.         Wrexham : Bridge Books, 1991.
• Linnard, William.          Richard Joynson and Thomas Hampson of Wrexham, clockmakers         Trafodion (Denbighshire Historical Society), Vol. 57 (2009), p. 56-63.
• Lloyd, H A (ed)   Wrexham and District     Wrexham 1970
• Lloyd, Terry.    Wrexham and district guide         Wrexham : Wrexham Advertising Services, 1989.
• Nineteenth century Wrexham :          Ltd ed: 400 copies.         Wrexham : Wrexham Library & Information Service, 1997.
• Palmer, Alfred N.  A history of the older nonconformity of Wrexham and its neighbourhood    Wrexham 1888 
• Palmer, Alfred Neobard.   History of the town of Wrexham             Wrexham : Bridge Books, 1997.
• Palmer, Alfred Neobard.      History of the thirteen country townships of the old parish of Wrexham, and of the townships of Burras Riffri, Erlas, & Erddig    Wrexham : Printed for the author by Hughes and Son, 1903.
• Pratt, Derrick.   Memories of the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway, 2, a personal odyssey    Denbighshire Historical Society 48   1999
• Pratt, Derrick.           One small corner of Wrexham      Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 48 (Spring 2002), p. 1-4
• Pratt, Derrick.      Wrexham area Home Guard, 1940-44. [Part 2], Dad's Army       Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 37 (Autumn 1996), p. 26-32
• Pratt, Derrick.    Fourteenth-century Wrexham      Trafodion (Denbighshire Historical Society), Vol. 55 (2007), p. 19-65.
• Pratt, Derrick.      Towards mapping the Wrexham coalfield        Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 61 (Winter 2009/10), p. 14-22
• Pratt, Derrick.     A Wrexham Castle?      Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 62 (Spring 2010), p. 23-29
• Roberts,  John Howell.       Lost houses in and about Wrexham        Hel achau, No. 104 (Mawrth / March 2010), p. 33-35
• Shone, Arthur N.             Wrexham races             Wrexham : Snowy Publications, 1991.
• Shone, Isaac.     Wrexham: its present sanitary condition      Wrexham : Bayley and Bradley, Printers and Publishers, 1876.
• Smith, Gillian.      Guide to Wrexham Parish Church     Wrexham : St. Giles Parish Church, Wrexham, 1988.
• The late Mr Alfred Neobard Palmer, of Wrexham :         Wrexham : Wrexham Advertiser, 1915.
• The Official Guide to Wrexham     Ed J Burrows & co Ltd    19??
• Wicklen, S I.     History of Wrexham printing     Conwy : Cader Idris Books, [1988]
• Williams, Gwyneth.     Wrexham and district          Loggerheads : S.B. Publications, 1990
• Williams, W. Allister.    Old Wrexham            Wrexham : Bridge Books, 1988;  and several other vols
• Williams, W. Allister.      The encyclopaedia of Wrexham        Wrexham : Bridge Books, 2001.
• Williamson, Val.     Wrexham's railway  ;     illustrations by Norah Sakwa ; photographs by Mandy Bainbridge.    Mold : Clwyd Centre for Educational Technology, c1984.
• Wrexham Directory 1886  Hawarden 1981
• Wrexham illustrated :          Brighton : Robinson, Son and Pike, [1892?]
• Wrexham in the Welsh Marches of Denbighshire     8th ed   Cheltenham 1954

Various items   -  on the People's Collection Wales site

• OLD MEETING (CHESTER STREET ENGLISH BAPTIST CHURCH), CHESTER STREET, WREXHAM 
• Wesleyan Sunday School Certificate, 1906
• Wrexham Church
• TRINITY ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WREXHAM
• BRADLEY ROAD ENGLISH BAPTIST CHURCH, WREXHAM
• TABERNACL SCOTTISH BAPTIST CHAPEL, WREXHAM
• Tan-y-fron Sunday school, near Wrexham, c. 1885

Nonconformist Churches

"Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist places of worship in the Civil administrative district of Wrexham Regis :

• The following nonconformist registers for the Wrexham area are held at the Public Record Office, Kew.
  They may be viewed on microfilm at LDS Family History Centres; and at the Denbighshire Record Office, the Flintshire Record Office and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  The baptisms have also been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme :

• The following nonconformist registers for the Wrexham area are held either at the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin (DRO) or at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (NLW).
  The Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices have photocopies of those registers which have been deposited in the National Library.
  These registers have not been filmed; and they have not been incorporated into the I.G.I. :

When Civil Registration was introduced (on 1 July 1837), the parish of Wrexham was assigned to the No. 4 ("Wrexham") sub-district of the Wrexham Registration District; which, initially, was co-extensive with the Wrexham poor law Union.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Wrexham are in the format :

• Years 1837 - 1851: Wrexham XXVII. nnn
• Years 1851 - 1930: Wrexham 11b. nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)

Wrexham County Borough Council

Wrexham - on wikipedia

Welcome to Wrexham

Wrexham.com - "Independent local news, reviews, information and forums"

Various landscapes/buildings   -  on the People's Collection Wales site

• Geograph
• Flickr

The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

The transcription of the section for this parish from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis 1833  © Mel Lockie 2016

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Wrexham to another place.

Various items   -  on the People's Collection Wales site

• Then & Now: Hope Street, Wrexham (1900/2011) 
•  Banknote of the Wrexham & North Wales Bank, 1844

"North-East Wales Churches and Ancient Parish Boundaries" produced by Clwyd Record Office in 1994, published by Genuki with the permission of Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives

Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348.   Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county.

Various maps  -  on the People's Collection Wales site

• Wrexham OS Map, 1900
• Bersham township in the parish of Wrexham
• The townships of Gourton and Bieston in the parish of Wrexham in the County of Denbigh  
• Map of Stansty township in the parish of Wrexham in the County of Denbigh
• Map of the township of Broughton in the parish of Wrexham in the County of Denbigh
• Map of the township of Minera in the parish of Wrexham in the County of Denbigh
• Map of the township of Acton in the parish of Wrexham & County of Denbigh
• Plan of the township of Eclusham Above in the parish of Wrexham in the County of Denbigh
• Map of the township of Burras Hovah in the parish of Wrexham and County of Denbigh
• Map of the township of Eclusham Below in the parish of Wrexham and County of Denbigh
• The townships of Abenbury Fawr and Abenburyvechan in the parish of Wrexham in the Counties of Denbigh and Flint
• Map of the town of Wrexham in the townships of Wrexham Regis and Wrexham Abbot in the parish of Wrexham, Denbighshire

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ310506 (Lat/Lon: 53.048493, -3.030338), Wrexham which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Various items   -  on the People's Collection Wales site

• Unveiling of R.W.F. Memorial at Wrexham c1920 
• The Royal Welch Fusiliers memorial was erected in 1924, originally at the junction of Regent Street and Grosvenor Road, and moved to its present site after the Second World War
• An article from the Denbighshire Free Press about the death of Robert Randle Egerton from Wrexham during The First World War.
• Ned and donkey, Pool Park, Wrexham, c. 1875
• Discharge certificate of Joseph Jones, 28 December 1918
• A 'silk' postcard sent by Pte Joseph Jones to his wife, 1914-18

Various items   -  on the People's Collection Wales site

• Front page of the earliest surviving copy of the Welsh newspaper Wrexham Guardian 1875  
• The Wrexham Advertiser and North Wales News, 7 February 1891.
• Wrexham and Denbigh Weekly Advertiser Mar 11 1854

Various items -  on the People's Collection Wales site

• The last pony to work at Bersham Colliery, near Wrexham, 1952  
• Wrexham Lager Beer Company
• Certificate recieved by Jini Morris (nee Jones) from the Agricultural Department at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1921
• Powell Brother Engineering Works, 1914-1918.
• Island Green Malthouse and Brewery, Wrexham,
• Wrexham Eisteddfod, spinning demonstration, 1912
• Wrexham Eisteddfod, weaving demonstration, 1912
• Upper MIll, Glyn Ceiriog, Wrexham.
• Denbighshire Fire Brigade at Wrexham Fire Station, 16 June 1953
• Indenture of Sarah Ellis, Gresford, to be apprenticed to a weaver from Wrexham,13 January 1767
• Cefn-mawr clay industry, Wrexham, 1 June 1950

• In 1831- the population was 11,521.
• In 1901- the population was 15,821.
  [ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

A photograph showing the Mold contingent taking part in the anti-Disestablishment demonstration held in Wrexham on 13 August 1913. Their banner reads 'Mold - Right is Might and will Prevail'. Another banner reads: 'England and Wales, One Nation, One Church'   -  on the People's Collection Wales site

Various items  -  on the People's Collection Wales site

• School log book, Cefn Mawr Infant School, Wrexham, 17 March to 19 May, 1882  
• Penygelli Junior School 1908 
• Penygelli Infants School 1907
• Penygelli Infants` School Welsh class 1965

Various items   -  on the People's Collection Wales site

• The Empty Chair at Wrexham, 1876. The winning bard, Thomas Jones (Taliesin o Eifion), had died a few weeks previously 
• Wrexham & District Operatic & Musical Society. Performed at The Great Hall, Grove Park County School, Wrexham 1943
• Proclamation Ceremony of the 1912 Eisteddfod Wrexham . and 1933
• Work Committee of the 1933 National Eisteddfod at Wrexham
• The Wrexham Gorsedd 1911