Llanddeusant, Anglesey

Historical Description

Llandeusant or Llanddausaint, a village and a parish in Anglesey. The village stands on the river Alaw, 5½ miles W by N of Llanerchymedd. It has a post office under Valley (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Llanfachreth. Acreage of the civil parish, 2058; population, 443; of the ecclesiastical, 557. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Llanbabo, in the diocese of Bangor; gross value, £327. Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The church is Early English, and is dedicated to St Marcellus and Marcelliuus. The name Llandeusant signifies " the church of two saints."

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.

Church Records

FindMyPast have a parish records collection which includes transcripts and images of most Welsh parish registers.
This includes Llanddeusant: Baptisms from 1752 to 1767, Marriages from 1752 to 1924, and Burials from 1752 to 1767. Free to search.

Civil Registration

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

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