Month: August 2019

Margretta Elizabeth was the daughter of Jane Jones and Thomas Shaw who had married at St Giles on 1 January 1845.  Thomas Shaw was a grocer and living in Chester, his father was also Thomas [more]

Robert Turner was born about 1800 in London. By 1851 he was living in Wrexham  Fechan with his wife Mary  nee Andrews  who was from Denbigh. He was a Spanish leather dresser, which meant he [more]

These ladies were rather difficult to trace, their surname has so many variations.  Their father died in December 1870 and his death was announced in the Wrexham Advertiser. IHLER-On the 26th inst., at Stansty Villa, [more]

Charlotte Williams  was born about 1798 in Middlesex, and on 18 November 1818 she married Thomas Edisbury in Wrexham.   He was listed in the North Wales Directory of  1835 as a  Currier /  leather seller: [more]

The Edisbury family have been connected with the Wrexham area for centuries. Erddig Hall was  built about 1684 as a home for the High Sheriff of Denbighshire, Josiah Edisbury.  It was sold 30 years later [more]

Elizabeth was born in the Oldcastle area of Malpas about 1849, she was the daughter of  Thomas and Margaret Price.   In 1851 the Price family were living in Dog Lane Farm in Oldcastle, her [more]

Elizabeth Radford was born about 1807 in Whitchurch,  Devon,  and on 21 May 1831 she married Alexander Barratt, an agent of mines at Tavistock Parish Church. Alexander had been born in Gwennap,  Corwall They settled [more]

Thomas Parry married Mary Davies on 3 July 1893 at St Giles, he was a skinner living at 15 Trafalger Road, his father was Joseph Parry a labourer. Mary was the daughter of Edward Davies  [more]

The cemetery register has  the place of death as “ on the road near Plascoch “ the full story is tragic and  was reported in many newspapers. SUICIDE AT WREXHAM.  The people of Wrexham were [more]