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Title: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: Malcolm Butcher on Thursday 08 February 24 12:42 GMT (UK)
I am looking for a marriage in 1940 in Minera. It isn't in the parish records for the village and so I am wondering if it took place in a chapel. Which chapels were operating in 1940 and what happened to their records? NB I have sent for the certificate but would like to locate the chapel record too.
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: wilcoxon on Thursday 08 February 24 19:29 GMT (UK)
https://www.northwalesbmd.org.uk/marriagesearch.php

Look for it on this site. It usually says what Church it was or if it was Civil. It won't say which Chapel.
My parents married in a Chapel and it's on here as a Civil..

The marriage certificate should say where it took place.

Chapel records are not easy to find.
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: wilcoxon on Thursday 08 February 24 19:35 GMT (UK)
GENUKI  will give you information on Minera Churches and Chapels.
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: Malcolm Butcher on Thursday 08 February 24 22:28 GMT (UK)
Hi Wilcoxon,

Thank you very much for the suggestion of the North Wales BMD. I found the marriage straightaway and the church was named. They are the parents of my cousin who had no idea where they were married. I feel a trip coming on in the near future.
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: wilcoxon on Thursday 08 February 24 22:37 GMT (UK)
Glad to have helped. It is a useful site.  :)
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: Malcolm Butcher on Thursday 15 February 24 20:25 GMT (UK)
I have now been able to establish the address of the bride at this wedding, but I can't find it using a simple Google search. The handwriting on the marriage register entry makes it look like "2 Cae Hovah, Wern" and I believe this is/was in Minera, Wrexham. Would anybody out there know how I might locate this property, please?
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: wilcoxon on Thursday 15 February 24 20:42 GMT (UK)
Have you checked her in 1939 register,  or her father.
Wern is outside Minera.
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: mazi on Thursday 15 February 24 21:42 GMT (UK)
Postcode finder gives it as a valid address and a link to a map, but I cannot pin it down any closer.

Mike
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: wilcoxon on Thursday 15 February 24 22:31 GMT (UK)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wern+cottage/@53.044442,-3.0798282,15.66z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x487ac9fe6805f1fd:0x2520d0238c9e7dd0!8m2!3d53.0494358!4d-3.0787157!16s%2Fg%2F11jqflg9l8?authuser=0&entry=ttu

Stryt y scewiar is showing on here.  Can't find Cae Hovah.
It was also Cae Hofa .
North Wales Archives has some info as Cae Hofa.

Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: Malcolm Butcher on Thursday 15 February 24 22:34 GMT (UK)
Thank you for your replies.

1) I'm fairly certain that she was in Shrewsbury in 1939, but I'll check that out.
2) I looked at postcode finder and it took me to a cottage that could well be the place, and I'll check this out too.
3) This is the address I found: Cae Hovah, Wern, Bersham, WREXHAM, LL14 4LU.

More tasks to be done tomorrow now.
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: wilcoxon on Thursday 15 February 24 22:38 GMT (UK)
1939  Cae Hofa 2 dwellings
 Surnames are
Logan. Kelly. Pierce. Hart. A child I can't read.
2 redacted entries
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: Malcolm Butcher on Thursday 15 February 24 22:47 GMT (UK)
At the time of the 1939 census the family hadn't yet moved to Cae Hofah. I know here they were and it's now the property that I'd like to locate, but thank you again for looking.
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: wilcoxon on Thursday 15 February 24 22:51 GMT (UK)

https://maps.nls.uk/view/102181053#zoom=5&lat=5041&lon=4665&layers=BT

Same area but Cae Hovah still not showing.
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: Malcolm Butcher on Thursday 15 February 24 22:58 GMT (UK)
Thank you for the map. I'll give it a good looking at in the morning and see if I can compare it to what I found through the postcode/address finder.
Title: Re: Minera, Wrexham: chapel records
Post by: wilcoxon on Monday 19 February 24 16:03 GMT (UK)
The burial ground is the remains of the Wern Chapel.