Llanddona, Anglesey

Historical Description

Llanddona, a parish in Anglesey, on Red Wharf Bay, 4 miles NW of Beaumaris, and 7 NNE of Menai Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Beaumaris (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Llangoed. Acreage, 1846, with 393 of foreshore; population, 471. The inhabitants are employed in agriculture, seafaring, and in the season in the herring fishery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bangor; net value, £145 with residence. Patron, Lord Stanley of Alderley. The church is dedicated to St Dona and occupies the site of one built in 610. There are Wesleyan 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 Llanddona from 1837 to 1937 you should search for the Bangor Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Llanddona from 1937 to 1968 you should search for the Anglesey East Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Llanddona 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 Llanddona 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