It depends on which Llanrhaeadr - or Llanrhaiadr - you mean. Llanrhaeadr Ym
Mochnant, Llanrhaeadr Dyffryn Clwyd etc...
Your reference to Oswestry suggest that you are speaking about
Llanrhae(i)adr Ym Mochnant, which looks like it is in Montgomeryshire, but
is actually in Denbighshire and was the village that featured in the Hugh
Grant film 'The Englishman Who Walked Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain'.
It is also the location of the highest waterfall in Wales, Pistyll Rhaeadr,
and was where the bible was first translated into Welsh (I think).
If so, it was in the Llanfyllin registration district for BMDs for the
period you are talking about. It is not very many miles West of Oswestry,
but is resolutely Welsh in character . Oswestry's population is quite
hybrid - of largely English and Welsh descent - though it's character and
outlook is very much more English, naturally enough for a Shropshire town.
You can look all this up for yourself on the relevant aprish page in the
Denbighshire section of the Genuki website.
All the best
Rob Stokes (GGrandather was Robert Jones, b August 1867, Llanrhaiadr Ym
Mochnant, lived variously in the neighbouring hamlets or Cymdu and
Llangedwyn, then over the hills to Chirk and Bronygarth)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Griffiths" <griffme(a)picknowl.com.au>
To: <WLS-DENBIGHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: [DEN] Registration.
Can any of our readers help me. If a child was born at Llanrhaeadr,
Denbighshire in 1847. Where would the registration be recorded?
Also how far is Oswestry from Llanrhaeadr?
With thanks
Margaret Griffiths.
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