From: tickettyboo@mail2oops.com   
      
   On 2019-12-14 16:51:59 +0000, Ruth Wilson said:   
      
   > Can anyone with a bit of Denbighshire knowledge help me? I have a   
   > marriage record in 1830. I have a scan of that from the Llangollen PR   
   > online (Llangollen given as the parish at the head of the page) but   
   > there is an identical record from FMP Denbighshire Marriages   
   > transcriptions and on Family Search that give the place as Pontfadog.   
   > I have found that Pontfadog became a separate parish in 1848, and I am   
   > assuming that it could have been a chapelry earlier, with the marriage   
   > taking place in Pontfadog and being entered in Llangollen PRs. However,   
   > I can't find any evidence for this.   
   > One day, I will get round to Clwyd CRO and chasing this line, but until   
   > then, any help gratefully received.   
   > Ruth   
      
   I have no local knowledge of Denbighshire, and have no idea if there   
   was a chapelry at Pontfadog, but this rang a bell. I remembered reading   
   elsewhere that there are a few discrepancies in this FMP database   
   (possibly originally an error made by Family Search and FMP use their   
   transcriptions) and suspect that the marriages took place at the parish   
   church of Llangollen.   
      
   I had a look at the Denbighshire Marriages and Banns records on FMP.   
   Specifying a year of 1830 (exact)  and a place as Pontfadog and leaving   
   all other fields blank, I get 44 results all saying in the transcript   
   that they took place at Pontfadog  - I didn't check them all but the   
   images for the dozen or so I looked at all said the Parish of   
   Llangollen on the register images.   
      
   Interestingly, if I repeat the search but specify the place as   
   Llangollen, I am told there are NO results for that search. According   
   to FMP not one single couple married at the Parish Church of Llangollen   
   in 1830.   
      
   I'd doubt that 44 couples would have married at a chapelry and none at   
   all at the Parish Church in an entire year.   
      
   I'd be interested to know the film number for the record you found on   
   Family Search to see what their source was for the transcription, but   
   an email to the archives which hold the originals would probably get   
   you a definite answer as to whether or not there was a chapelry at   
   Pontfadog prior to it becming a separate parish.   
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