Cerrig Ceinwen, Anglesey

Historical Description

Cerrig-Ceinwen, a parish in Anglesey, near the Holyhead road, 3 miles SW of Llangefni, and 3½ NE of Bodorgan station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Llangefni (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Llangefni. Acreage, 1573; population of the civil parish, 468; of the ecclesiastical, which includes Llangristiolus, 1191. The living is a rectory annexed to the rectory of Llangristiolus, in the diocese of Bangor. Patron, the Bishop. The church was restored in 1860, consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret and vestry, and contains a circular font of the 12th century. There are Baptist and Calvinistic Methodist chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

For births, marriages, and deaths in Cerrig Ceinwen from 1837 to 1885 you should search for the Anglesey Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Cerrig Ceinwen from 1885 to 1937 you should search for the Holyhead Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Cerrig Ceinwen from 1937 to 1968 you should search for the Anglesey West Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Cerrig Ceinwen from 1968 to 1974 you should search for the Anglesey Registration District.

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Anglesey is online.

Maps

Online maps of Cerrig Ceinwen are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

• Western Mail
• The North Wales Chronicle