File 461B. - Register of births and baptisms,

A copy of a register of births and baptisms belonging to Bethel Independent Chapel, Mold, Flintshire, 1813-63. The successive ministers of the church during this period were Benjamin Powell, Robert Williams, Rhes-y-cae and Isaac Harries. Isaac Harries was ordained there in July 1825 and he remained at Bethel until his death in 1864. Others who are named as having officiated at baptisms are the Reverend M. Jones, Merthyr, Mr P. Griffiths, Llanrwst, the Reverend W. Williams, Wern, T. Jones, Newmarket, B. Evans, Bagillt, Owen Owens, Rhes y Cae, John Sa(u)nders, Buckley, David Roberts, Denbigh, the Reverend James Maurice, the Reverend Thomas Ellis, Jonah Lloyd, St Asaph, the Reverend J. Griffith, Manchester, Thomas Lewis, Pwllheli and Builth, William Rees, Mostyn, the Reverend Jonathan Davies, Evan Price, Ruthin, the Reverend Lewis Everett, D. W. Jones, Holywell and the Reverend Henry Lewis, Llanidloes. A note among the entries for 1837 reads 'The original register was sent to The Secretary of State Home Department White Hall London, April 29 1837'. There are no entries between 1838 and 1852. The volume is written in the same hand throughout (?that of Isaac Harries). At the end of the volume there is a copy in a different hand of part of a letter written from The Cross, Mold, 13 November 1866, concerning Alltamy colliery, [Flintshire].