Anglesey (Poor Law/Registration County) through time

Anglesey Poor Law/Registration County

Densities and rates of growth. Age structure: concentrations of young people, and of the old.

How people made their living: identifying farming communities, pit villages, mill towns and so on.

Numbers of babies born. Deaths, especially infant deaths. Causes of death by age and gender.

Unemployment rates and poor relief. What proportions of men and of women did paid work?

Numbers of houses. Overcrowding: persons per room. Amenities: central heating, baths and WCs.

Numbers going to church, and the kinds of churches they went to. The different religions of modern Britain.

Alternative names

We know of no alternate names.

Lower level units

This unit contained the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
ANGLESEY RegD/PLU	Poor Law Union/Reg. District	1850		Statement of the Names of the Several Unions and Poor Law Parishes of England and Wales; and of the Population, Area, and Rateable Value thereof in 1881 (11)
ANGLESEY RegD	Poor Law Union/Reg. District		01 Jan 1885	1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
HOLYHEAD RegD/PLU	Poor Law Union/Reg. District	1850		Statement of the Names of the Several Unions and Poor Law Parishes of England and Wales; and of the Population, Area, and Rateable Value thereof in 1881 (181)
ANGLESEY RSD	Sanitary District			1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Sanitary Districts situated within the [Division] Division in 1881, and Population of the same in 1871'.
HOLYHEAD USD	Sanitary District			1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Sanitary Districts situated within the [Division] Division in 1881, and Population of the same in 1871'.
HOLYHEAD RSD	Sanitary District			1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Sanitary Districts situated within the [Division] Division in 1881, and Population of the same in 1871'.

Other related units

This unit was associated with the following other units:

Nature of association	Other unit involved	Type of unit	Authority
was preceded by	ANGLESEY	Ancient County	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 999.
was succeeded by	ANGLESEY	Administrative County	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 7.

Higher level units

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
WALES Dep	Country	1851	1930	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 6.
WALES	Poor Law/Registration Division			1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Registration divisions and Counties - Area, and population at each successive Census'.

Boundaries and changes

We know of no boundary changes affecting this unit.

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How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Anglesey (Poor Law/Registration County) through time, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10134754

Date accessed: 13th December 2025