Treuddyn

• Bevan-Evans, M Local government in Treuddyn, 1752-1821 Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 22 1965/6 Welsh Journals Online
• Jones, W Bell Fourteenth century glass in Tryddyn Church Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol.11 1925 Welsh Journals Online
• Lloyd, Philip (ed) Treuddyn Treuddyn : Pwyllgor Mileniwm Treuddyn Millennium Committee, 2002.
• Roberts, Bethan. Healer of Treuddyn Country Quest 30/3 (1989), p. 34
• Roberts, Elwyn. Hanes Eisteddfod Treuddyn 1863-1999 Treuddyn : Pwyllgor Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Treuddyn, 1999.

In addition to the churchyard at St. Mary's parish church, there is a public cemetery at Ffordd-y-Rhos, Treuddyn. (OS ref. SJ 248581)
The cemetery, which is known locally as "Mynwent y Rhos", was opened about 1953, and is still in use.
The opening time is 8.00 a.m. until sunset.
The cemetery records, from 1953 to date, are held at the Flintshire County offices in Flint.
Researchers who wish to see the cemetery records must make a prior appointment, by contacting :

• Flintshire County Council,
  Housing and Community Services,
  Cemeteries Section,
  County Offices,
  Flint,
  Flintshire.
  CH6 5BD.

  Tel: 01352 703360
  Fax: 01352 703373

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 254581.
The old church had fallen into a dilapidated and insecure condition, and was demolished in 1874. A new building was erected on the same site, and opened on 5 August 1875.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

'Treuddyn Chapel' by Moses Griffith, c. 1770-1800 (watercolour) on the People's Collection Wales site

Nonconformist Churches

"Welsh Church Commission - County of Flint - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist places of worship in the Civil parish of Tryddyn (sic):

• The following nonconformist registers for the Treuddyn area are held at the Public Record Office, Kew.
  They may be viewed on microfilm at LDS Family History Centres; and at the Flintshire Record Office and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  They have not been incorporated into the I.G.I. :

• The following nonconformist registers for the Treuddyn area are held at the Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden.
  They 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 Treuddyn was assigned to the No. 1 ("Hope") sub-district of the Wrexham Registration District, which was co-extensive with the Wrexham poor law Union.

On 1 August 1871, Treuddyn was transferred to the Hawarden poor law Union (established 1853); and for civil registration purposes, it was assigned to the No. 4 (" Hawarden") sub-district of the Chester Registration District.

On 1 January 1903, the sub-district of Hawarden was upgraded to a Registration District in its own right.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Treuddyn are found under:

• Years 1837 - 1851: Wrexham XXVII. nnn
• Years 1852 - 1871: Wrexham 11b. nnn
• Years 1871 - 1902: Chester 8a. nnn
• Years 1903 - 1946: Hawarden 11b. nnn

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

Treuddyn community site

Treuddyn - on wikipedia

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

Offa's Dyke alignments in Treuddyn Parish on the People's Collection Wales site

"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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ251583 (Lat/Lon: 53.116598, -3.120529), Treuddyn 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.

• In 1831- the population was 829.
• In 1901- the population was 1245.
  [ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

Archdeacon Thomas (1911) gives the area of the parish as 3554 acres.