wilcoxon, thank you very much for all that material. I would never have found it! Amplifying your findings, I can add the following:
According to family, George KYRKE (1780-1859) married a Miss ROE, presumably a relation of the Charles ROE who moved from Summerhill, Macclesfield to first Anglesy then I assume to the Wrexham area in that he bought Brynmally Colliery. Summerhill is a common name but I guess Charles ROE actually came from Summerhill, Alderley Edge near Macclesfield; copper was mined on the Edge so a move to Anglesey could be explained if he had lived there.
I'm interested that a contributor to the Broughton History Group knew/knows that Richard Venables KYRKE was the grandson of Richard Kyrk (KIRK, 1747-1839). As previously mentioned, I haven't identifed the parents of Richard Venables KYRKE. Maybe the contributor assumed that with such an unusual name he had to be a descendant of Richard KIRK and his wife Ellen VENABLES but it would be less than a fair assumption to specify him being a grandson because he could equally have been a great grandson. So it's possible the contributor had or has my missing information. Any help here greatly appreciated!
I made a mistake in my first entry on this string of messages, it should have read:
Also, if anybody happens to know the fate of any of the twelve children of Richard and Ellen (Fanny WARBRICK was the wife of Richard Venables KYRKE), in particular, which one was the father of Richard Venables KYRKE, you would save me the long trip from the Cambridge area for the task of checking the several possible christening registers (and even then with no assurance of success). Richard KIRK was born at Chapel-en-le-Frith in about 1747, married Ellen VENABLES at Prestbury, Cheshire in 1771 and at some time moved to the Wrexham area. They had a family of twelve children, born between 1775 and 1792, five boys: Henry (1775, no issue), Thomas (1777, no issue), James (1778), George (1780) and Richard (1792).
Regarding the fate of the Kyrkes in the Wrexham area, I think the connection was severed when Richard Venables KYRKE died at Hawarden in 1899, although his elder son Richrd Henry Venables KYRKE died in the Monmouth area in 1925. Daughter Dora married Joseph DRAKE, of Wexford. I lose track of his daughter Fanny and think she must have died young. And his younger son Arthur Venables KYRKE moved away to Chard, Somerset. I am not aware of descendants of any other line from Richard KIRK (1747-1839) other than those of the above Richard Venable KYRKE..