Whitford, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

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Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

Parishes of Historic Flintshire

Whitford

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, Wales Genealogy. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Flintshire.

History

"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

Whitford Parish
Jurisdictions
County bef 1974	add here
County 1 Apr 1974-31 Mar 1996	add here
County 1 Apr 1996 -	add here
Civ Reg District	Holywell (1881)
Reg Sub-district	Whitford (1881)
Probate Court	add here
Diocese	add here
Rural Deanery	add here
Chapelry	add here
Poor Law Union	Holywell
Hundred	Coleshill
Province	add here
Hamlets	add here

Administration

Years	County
before 31 March 1974	Flintshire
1 April 1974 - 31 March 1996	Clwyd
from 1 April 1996	Flintshire

Census Records

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

Maps and Gazetteers

• Vision of Britain - Whitford

Websites

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