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Comment: There is plenty of space for this information in the article on its subsequent form. It doesn't need to be broken into all these sections; one section on the Registrar and People's Friend version would be plenty. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 21:02, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
The Wrexham Registrar and People's Friend (1848-49) was a monthly newspaper published in Wrexham. It was first published in August 1848 and its final issue appeared in December 1849.[1] It was published at the General Printing Office in Hope Street, Wrexham. It consisted of sixteen pages and appeared on the first day of each month. It described its aims as 'Our pages will be devoted mainly .. to local affairs and local improvements. We shall endeavour to give all the aid and impulse we can to these reforms, SANITARY, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ... We shall not, however, confine ourselves to local affairs, but shall endeavour both by original articles and judicious selections from the literature of the day, to furnish useful entertainment and instruction in the various branches of useful knowledge ... We, therefore, at once and frankly avow, that we are the advocates of a LIBERAL, ONWARD, REFORMING POLICY.'[2] The Registrar was priced at one penny, which was half the price of its local rival the Wrexham Recorder. Appearing monthly allowed it to avoid paying stamp duty.
The Registrar was founded by William Bayley and George Bayley, assisted by George's brother Charles George Bayley. It was common at this time, for newspapers to be a family concern.[3] A. H. Dodd, referencing an editorial in its first number to 'expose and reprobate all nuisances, whether a certain odorous and stagnant abyss in Eagles Meadow, or the still more noxious stagnations which we may find the moral world', described it as 'honest and outspoken in [its] censure and praise.'[4] Although no circulation information was provided, its second issue in September 1848 commented that 'our success has far exceeded our most sanguine expectations, both as to demand for the first number (which has not yet ceased) as well as the very numerous and highly respectable communication bestowed upon our first efforts, by persons of all classes and creeds.'[5] Its content was mainly essays and articles on local history, along with local, national, and international news.[6]
In March 1849 the newspaper shortened its title to Wrexham Registrar and reduced its size to twelve pages. Lisa Peters suggests that this change was due to the cesation of its local rival, the Wrexham Recorder.[7]
In its final issue, the Registrar announced that it would become the Wrexham and Denbigh Weekly Advertiser.[8] Lisa Peters speculates that the Registrar was established in order to discover whether there was a market for a second title in Wrexham (as the Recorder was already in existence) and a weekly newspaper as in August 1848 the Registrar stated that 'we are quite prepared to issue our periodical every fortnight.'[9] However the Registrar and the Advertiser, although closely related, were two distinct titles with the monthly Registrar having more the look and feel of a magazine, than a newspaper, with its monthly publication and small size.
References
[edit]- ^ "Wrexham Registrar and People's Friend". Welsh Journals.
- ^ "Wrexham Registrar and People's Friend". August 1848.
- ^ Davies, Lisa (1999). "Wrexham's first three newspapers: the Wrexham Recorder, the Wrexham Registrar, the Wrexham Advertiser (and descendants) to 1900". Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Society. 47: 60-61.
- ^ Dodd, A. H. (1957). A History of Wrexham, Denbighshire. Wrexham: Hughes & Son. p. 255.
- ^ "Wrexham Registrar". September 1848.
- ^ Peters, Lisa Jayne (2002). Wrexham Newspapers, 1848-1914. University of Wales, PhD thesis.
- ^ Peters, Lisa (2011). Politics, Publishing and Personalities: Wrexham Newspapers, 1848-1914. Chester: University of Chester Press. p. 24. ISBN 9781905929870.
- ^ "Wrexham Registrar". December 1849.
- ^ "Wrexham Registrar". August 1848.