Up to 1783. Bryn Estyn (Bryn meaning, Hill. Estyn meaning, reach out, stretch, extend) was part of the estate of the Davies family of Erlas Hall, until Williams Kyffin of Maenan Hall married one of [more]
William Spencer had been born in Liverpool. He was the son of Spencer a joiner. In 1855 he married Sarah Ann Jones also from Liverpool, she was the daughter of John Jones a carpenter. At [more]
John Bernard Murless was the 12th and the 23rd Mayor of Wrexham, He was born in 1829 from Taunton in Somerset but came to Wrexham from County Cork in Ireland in 1864. His wife Clara [more]
Robert Henry Done was the 32nd Mayor of Wrexham in 1893 to 1894, He was born on New Year’s Day in 1856, and was the son of Robert & Mary Done who was married on [more]
John Batho was born in Birmingham about 1798, he married Mary Catherall in Chester. Mary had been born in Chester. John was a spirit merchant in Bridge Street, Chester for many years before coming to [more]
Edward Judson was born in Trefonen, near Oswestry about 1831, he was the son of Richard Judson, a butcher. On 28th September 1857 he married Maria Lee in Walton on the Hill, West Derby. Maria [more]
Arthur Soames, born 1816, stoke Newington, London, England, who married Anna Amelia Gilstrap, born 1823, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. Their marriage took place on May 27th, 1852 in Newark. They lived in Waltham Old Hall near [more]
HENRY ALLEN JONES 1846 – 1898 HENRY ALLEN JONES 1877 – 1951 Henry Allen Jones senior had been born about 1846 in Llangollen; he was the son of Edward Jones and Elizabeth. When Henry was [more]
Many have passed the Centenary Memorial Tablet located on the former railway bridge on Vicarage Hill in Wrexham without a second glance. Mounted in 1926 for the centenary of the writing of the Missionary Hymm [more]
The River Gwenfro, was the “town brook” it ran through the bottom part of the town, at one time it was a clean and pleasant stretch of water – but over the years with all [more]
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