ROMAN CATHOLIC RECORDS

Holywell Roman Catholic records, 1730-1936, including registers of baptisms, confirmations, and visits to the sick, 1730-1936; Mold Roman Catholic records: register of baptisms, 1859-95; St Clare's RC Children's Home records, 1860s-2006.

Closure Rules - At their meeting in November 2014, the Bishops' Conference passed a resolution requiring baptism, marriage and convalidation registers and other registers containing personal data should not be made available for research until 110 years have passed.

At their meeting in November 2015 the bishops who had not already done so were asked to tell their diocesan archivists about this requirement and ask them to pass the information on to priests and any other custodians of sacramental registers.

The CAS is helping to make diocesan archivists, local authority archivists and others aware of this requirement.

Roman Catholicism in England and Wales was a small, persecuted minority between the 16th-18th centuries. Most Catholics had Anglican burials, and private baptism and marriage services, and few Catholic registers begin before the mid 18th century. There were several Roman Catholic chapels in Holywell, Flintshire, during the 18th and 19th centuries, including the Old Star Chapel and the Cross Keys Chapel. Following the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829, Catholics were allowed to worship as they pleased and many more churches were built. The area fell within the Catholic Diocese of Wrexham.

Arranged into the following: Registers; and miscellaneous

Data Protection Act restrictions will apply to any items less than 100 years old that contain personal information as defined by the Act.

At their meeting in November 2014, the Bishops' Conference passed a resolution requiring baptism, marriage and convalidation registers and other registers containing personal data should not be made available for research until 110 years have passed.

At their meeting in November 2015 the bishops who had not already done so were asked to tell their diocesan archivists about this requirement and ask them to pass the information on to priests and any other custodians of sacramental registers.

The CAS is helping to make diocesan archivists, local authority archivists and others aware of this requirement.

Please order documents using the alternative reference number (where provided).

Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project and amended by Steven Davies of Flintshire Record Office. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Roman Catholic records catalogue; Hey, David, Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997).

A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Flintshire Record Office.

Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project and amended by Steven Davies of Flintshire Record Office. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Roman Catholic records catalogue; Hey, David, Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997).

Usual copyright regulations apply.

Usual Copyright Restrictions Apply

All records deposited at Flintshire Record Office have been retained

Accruals are possible