WILLIAMS AND EDWARDS in RHOS

    "A parish in the Union of Wrexham, hundred of Bromfield, county of Denbigh; 5 miles
(SW by S) from Wrexham; containing, in 1841, 11292 inhabitants. ..... The parish is
situated in a picturesque part of the county, within three miles of the great Holyhead
road, and is bounded on the south by the river Dee. The village ..... seems to have
been indebted for its original prosperity to the noble mansion of Wynnstay, in the
immediate vicinity, and to owe its present importance chiefly to the mines of ironstone
and coal which abound, especially in the southern and western parts of the parish.
..... The parish comprises an important part of the Denbighshire coal tract, of which
the principal seam is here nine feet thick; and its mineral wealth in coal and iron
ore, particularly in the southern and western parts of it, has caused the establishment
of numerous works. The whole give employment to from 1400 to 1500 men and boys. .....
Offa's Dyke and Wat's Dyke both intersect the parish, and in their courses approach
within a quarter of a mile of each other, near the village, but diverge as they are
traced either northward or southward, so as shortly to leave an interval of several miles."
    [A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis] 

The ancient parish of Ruabon comprised the townships of Belan, Bodylltyn, Cristionydd
Cynrig (or Y Dref Fawr), Coed Cristionydd, Cristionydd Fechan (or Y Dref Fechan, or
Dynhinlle Uchaf), Dinhinlle Isaf, Hafod (or Hafod y Gallor), Moreton Anglicorum (or
Moreton Above), Moreton Wallichorum (or Moreton Below) (where Above and Below refer to
Offa's Dyke), Rhuddallt, and Tref Robert Llwyd.

On 24 May 1844, Coed Cristionydd and part of Cristionydd Cynrig went to the new parish
of Rhosymedre.
On 3 September 1844, Cristionydd Fechan went to the new parish of Rhosllanerchrugog.
On 28 October 1879, Moreton Above and the remainder of Cristionydd Cynrig went to the
new parish of Penycae.