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Wrexham Archives and Local Studies

Coordinates:53°02′50″N2°59′53″W / 53.0472°N 2.9980°W /53.0472; -2.9980
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Archives for the city of Wrexham
County Buildings, where the centre is housed.

Wrexham Archives and Local Studies (simply theWrexham Archives; formerlyA.N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives) holds thearchives for the city ofWrexham. The archives are held atCounty Buildings, on Regent Street, Wrexham, and run byWrexham County Borough Council as part of its Wrexham Archives and Local Studies Service.[1][2] The centre was initially named after local Wrexham historianAlfred Neobard Palmer.[3] The building is shared withWrexham County Borough Museum and the archives opened in 2002.[4][5]

Materials

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Materials held at the centre include:[6][7][8][9]

  • Census returns 1841-1901 for Wrexham County Borough
  • Census returns 1891-1901 for Denbighshire and Flintshire
  • Census indexes 1881 for Wales, Cheshire, Lancashire and Shropshire
  • National Probate Indexes for England and Wales 1858-1943
  • Newspapers from ~1850[10]
  • Parish registers for parishes in Wrexham County Borough
  • Burgess rolls and Electoral Lists from 1857 (incomplete)
  • Monumental Inscriptions
  • Parish Register transcriptions
  • Trade directories 1818-1974
  • Books on the history of Wrexham County Borough
  • 1881 British Census and National Index for England, Wales and Scotland
  • Cemetery Databases forWrexham Cemetery 1876-2000 and Gresford Cemetery 1917-2000
  • Internet access to genealogical sites and historical sites
  • Ordnance Survey Maps dating from 1872 -1970s
  • Tithe maps for parishes in Wrexham County Borough
  • Alan Godfrey old maps covering NE Wales

References

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  1. ^"Wrexham Archives and Local Studies Service".Wrexham.gov.uk. Retrieved12 July 2018.
  2. ^Archives, The National."The Discovery Service".discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved15 June 2022.
  3. ^"A.N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives - About A.N. Palmer".Wrexham.gov.uk. Archived fromthe original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved12 July 2018.
  4. ^"Archives".Wrexham Heritage. Retrieved15 June 2022.
  5. ^WalesOnline (5 May 2002)."News from around Wales".WalesOnline. Retrieved15 June 2022.
  6. ^"Catalogues and Indexes - Sources Available for Local and Family History Research".wrexham.gov.uk. Archived fromthe original on 16 April 2018. Retrieved16 June 2022.
  7. ^"Wrexham Archives Service collection - Archives Hub".archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved15 June 2022.
  8. ^Live, Cheshire (15 April 2009)."Wrexham mayor David Griffiths uses museum's archives to trace family roots".CheshireLive. Retrieved15 June 2022.
  9. ^"Catalogues and Indexes".old.wrexham.gov.uk. Archived fromthe original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved7 April 2023.
  10. ^"Holdings of Local Newspapers"(PDF).Wrexham County Borough Council. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 8 January 2022.

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