Llangwyllog, Anglesey

Historical Description

Llangwyllog, a parish in Anglesey, 3½ miles NW of Llangefni. It has a station on the Central Anglesey branch of the L. & N.W.R., and a post and money order office (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Llangefni. Acreage, 2442; population, 207. Roman coins have been found. The living is a vicarage, with Coedana annexed, in the diocese of Bangor; gross value, £267, in the gift of the Bishop of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St Cwyllog, and is good. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel.

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 Llangwyllog: Baptisms from 1848 to 1912, and Marriages from 1786 to 1927. 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 Llangwyllog from 1837 to 1937 you should search for the Anglesey Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Llangwyllog from 1937 to 1968 you should search for the Anglesey East Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Llangwyllog 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 Llangwyllog 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