Wrexham Archives and Local Studies explained

Wrexham Archives and Local Studies (simply the Wrexham Archives; formerly A.N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives) holds the archives for the city of Wrexham. The archives are held at County Buildings, on Regent Street, Wrexham, and run by Wrexham County Borough Council as part of its Wrexham Archives and Local Studies Service.^{[1] [2]} The centre was initially named after local Wrexham historian Alfred Neobard Palmer.^[3] The building is shared with Wrexham County Borough Museum and the archives opened in 2002.^{[4] [5]}

Materials

Materials held at the centre include:^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

• Census returns 1841-1901 for Wrexham County Borough
• Census returns 1891-1901 for Denbighshire and Flintshire
• Census indexes 1881 for Wales, Cheshire, Lancashire and Shropshire
• National Probate Indexes for England and Wales 1858-1943
• Newspapers from ~1850^[10]
• Parish registers for parishes in Wrexham County Borough
• Burgess rolls and Electoral Lists from 1857 (incomplete)
• Monumental Inscriptions
• Parish Register transcriptions
• Trade directories 1818-1974
• Books on the history of Wrexham County Borough
• 1881 British Census and National Index for England, Wales and Scotland
• Cemetery Databases for Wrexham Cemetery 1876-2000 and Gresford Cemetery 1917-2000
• Internet access to genealogical sites and historical sites
• Ordnance Survey Maps dating from 1872 -1970s
• Tithe maps for parishes in Wrexham County Borough
• Alan Godfrey old maps covering NE Wales

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wrexham Archives and Local Studies Service . Wrexham.gov.uk. 12 July 2018.
2. Web site: Archives . The National . The Discovery Service . 2022-06-15 . discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk . en-GB.
3. Web site: A.N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives - About A.N. Palmer . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180712223424/https://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/heritage/archives/an_palmer.htm . 12 July 2018 . Wrexham.gov.uk . 12 July 2018.
4. Web site: Archives . 2022-06-15 . Wrexham Heritage . en-US.
5. Web site: WalesOnline . 2002-05-05 . News from around Wales . 2022-06-15 . WalesOnline . en.
6. Web site: Catalogues and Indexes - Sources Available for Local and Family History Research . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180416190538/http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/heritage/archives/catalogue.htm . 16 April 2018 . 16 June 2022 . wrexham.gov.uk.
7. Web site: Wrexham Archives Service collection - Archives Hub . 2022-06-15 . archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk.
8. Web site: Live . Cheshire . 2009-04-15 . Wrexham mayor David Griffiths uses museum’s archives to trace family roots . 2022-06-15 . CheshireLive . en.
9. Web site: Catalogues and Indexes . https://web.archive.org/web/20210413141821/http://old.wrexham.gov.uk/english/heritage/archives/catalogue.htm . 13 April 2021 . 7 April 2023 . old.wrexham.gov.uk.
10. Web site: Holdings of Local Newspapers . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108000027/http://old.wrexham.gov.uk/assets/pdfs/museum/newspapers_held.pdf . 8 January 2022.