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Records relating to the Office of the Flintshire County Coroner, 1818-1996, including coroner's inquisitions and related records, 1818-1969; records of the East Clwyd district, 1969-1996, including sudden death reports, 1971-1989; inquest records, 1969-1996; and miscellaneous, 1960-1968.
Records, 1818-1849, were transferred from the Flintshire County Council records. The remainder have been deposited by H. M. Coroner.
Coroners were originally royal officers who, from the 12th century onwards, held inquests into matters affecting Crown rights, including sudden death, treasure trove and wrecks. Initially, Flintshire had one coroner, whose jurisdiction covered the whole county. From 1874, Maelor, the detached smaller portion of the county, was placed under the jurisdiction of the Shropshire coroner. From 1974, north east Wales was covered by three districts: East Clwyd, covering most of the old county of Flintshire, West Clwyd, covering most of the old county of Denbighshire, and South Clwyd, covering the Wrexham area.
Arranged into the following: Flintshire Coroner; and East Clwyd District.
Records are not to be accessed witout the permission of the depositor.
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Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Schedule of Coroner's records; 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. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Schedule of Coroner's records; Hey, David, Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997). Item level descriptions input by Alun Driver.
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All records deposited at Flintshire Record Office have been retained.
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