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GENUKI is organised on the basis of historic counties.
To find which GENUKI pages cover more modern counties and county boroughs, please see: Modern and Administrative Counties and County Boroughs.
It is acknowledged that the principal source of the details of books etc included on these pages is the online catalogues of the National Library of Wales
Early Modern Wales Bibliography covers the period c.1550-1800
Books from the Past - A Culturenet Cymru /Welsh Books Council project ; Books from the Past is an on-line collection of books of national cultural interest which have long been out of print.
Here is a database of books with a Wales relevance which are freely available to access online - under E-Books - Wales related
Ballinger, John & Jones, James Ifano. Catalogue of printed literature in the Welsh Department Cardiff, Free Libraries 1898 - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Welsh Department
Bibliography of the History of Wales. UWP, 1962
Jones, P.H. A Bibliography of the History of Wales. Cardiff, 1989, microfiche.
Jones, Philip Henry & Eiluned Rees (eds). A Nation and its Books. A history of the book in Wales. 1998
Jones, Sally Roberts. Books of Welsh Interest. The Welsh Books Council, 1977, it covers titles published up to March of that year. Gives; Author,Title,Publisher, Number of pages, ISBN number and price (in 1977). A short (one, two or three line) description of contents. There are about 1000 titles in all. Section 1 covers general matters and Section 2 covers literature.
Parry, Charles. Libri Walliae; A Catalogue of Welsh Books and Books Printed in Wales 1546-1820
Rees, Eiluned. Libri Walliae Supplement; A Catalogue of Welsh Books and Books Printed in Wales 1546-1820. NLW, 2001
Turner Evans, H. A Bibliography of Welsh Hymnology to 1960. Welsh Lib. Assn. 1977
David Lloyd George's Diary for 1886. The National Library of Wales 'Treasures' series.
Breverton, T. 100 Great Welshmen. Welsh Books, 2001.
Breverton, T. 100 Great Welsh Women. Welsh Books, 2001
Bryant, Kenneth. Personalities of Wales and The Marches ,1997. Detailed biographies of ; Robert Ferrar, Bishop, 1505-1555 ; John Kyrle, Esq., 1637-1724 ; Richard Price 1723-1791 ; Hugh Price Hughes 1847-1902 ; Walter Conway, Esq. 1873-1933 ; His Honour Sir Owen Temple-Morris, Q.C. 1896-1985 .
Cavenagh, F A. Griffith Jones. 1930
Davies, Twiston & Averyl Edwards. Women of Wales. 1935
Evans, Joseph. Biographical dictionary of ministers and preachers of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Body or Presbyterians of Wales; from the start of the denomination to the close of the year 1850 (1907) - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Welsh Calvinistic Methodist
Fisher, Deborah C. Who's Who in Welsh History . 1997
Hartley, E Mary. 'Baron' Lewis Owen of Dolgellau and his Descendants. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999. describes the part they played in the affairs of the communities in which they lived.
Jenkins, R T [ed]. The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, London, 1959. A second volume The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941-1970 was published by the HSC in 2001. See also Welsh versions below. An online searchable version is on this NLW site (Digital Mirror)
Morgan, J. Vyrnwy, D.D. (ed.) Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era. 1908 (London) 731pp. inc. list of subscribers and extensive intro. 57 'lives', each accompanied by a b/w portrait.
Morgan, T. Enwogion Cymreig (1700-1900). 1907, pp. 304.
Morgan, Rev J Vyrnwy. Welsh Religious Leaders in the Victorian Era. James Nisbet & Co, 1905. pp542 - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Welsh Religious Leaders
Nicholas, T. Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. 1872, repro Baltimore, 1991.
Nuttall, G F. Howel Harris, 1714-73 : the Last Enthusiast. 1965
Owen, Henry. Gerald the Welshman. London, 1904.
Rees, T Mardy. Notable Welshmen (1700-1900). 1908
Roberts, T R. A Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen.Cardiff, 1908 - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Cardiff
Rowland, E H. Eminent Welshmen (1700-1900). 1907
Who's Who in Wales. 1920, 1933, 1937.
Williams, Robert [Rev]. A Biographical Sketch of some of the most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation. 1836
Williams, Robert (Rev). Eminent Welshmen (A Biographical Dictionary). Llandovery,1852, p568
Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940, Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig 1941-1950 & Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig 1951-1970 . Honourable Society of Cymrodorion . These 3 volumes are biographical dictionaries of notable Welsh people who had died before 1940, between 1941 & 50 and between 1951 & 70.
An online searchable version is on the NLW site (Digital Mirror)
Grave Matters - Jill Muir's site on transcribing memorial inscriptions
The Find-a-Grave (Wales) page gives details of the graves of the rich and famous together with biographical information.
Graveyard Welsh - a guide to interpreting Memorial Inscriptions.
Jason's Family History Site Lots of photographs of headstones in various cemeteries in Wales, mainly Davies variants.
England and Wales - Census - links and information.
CenSearch: Wales, 4 counties census search (free as far as;- Surname, given name, age, occupation)
Gibson, J.S.W. and Medlycott, M.T. Local Census Listings 1522-1930 (2nd ed.), Birmingham, Fed. of Fam. Hist. Soc. (1994) 52 pp. [ISBN 1-872094-75-9]. Extracted are details of local censuses in Wales, listed by county
There is an extensive Timeline on Gareth's Help Page
Wales - A Brief Timeline, From: Owen Edwards. A Short History of Wales (T. Fisher Unwin, 1906).
You may also find it worthwhile searching in the GENUKI church database.
Theological Colleges attended by Welsh ministers and priests. An exercise to discover which theological colleges Welsh nonconformist ministers and Anglican church priests attended in Wales (and England).
A listing of JONES entries from the clergymen's database on Crockford's Clerical Directory of 1885. Compiled by Gareth Hicks from the CD published by Archive CD Books.
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 9 - The Welsh cathedrals (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids). On the British History Online site
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 11 - The Welsh dioceses (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids). On the British History Online site
Welsh Abbeys and other Religious Sites - information and photographs provided by Jeffrey L. Thomas.
Llanvaches, the oldest nonconformist chapel in Wales
Independent Chapels of Wales: History Books and Pamphlets On the NLW's site
The Baptist Historical Society site
The Baptist Union of Great Britain site
Quakers in Britain (then search on Wales)
Coleg Trefeca - A centre for lay training, conferences and retreats owned by the Presbyterian Church of Wales
National Synod of Wales The National Synod of Wales of the United Reformed Church, is one of thirteen Synods that cover England, Wales and Scotland.
Shropshire Baptist History - a comprehensive introduction to Baptists in England and Wales
Books marked # have an entry on the separate 'Review/Contents' page.
See also under Religion and Religious Life below
Bell, P M H. Irish and Welsh Disestablishment. 1969
Davies, Alun R. Introducing the Church in Wales . Penarth : Church in Wales Publications, 1991.16p.
Davies, J C. (ed.). Episcopal acts relating to Welsh dioceses 1066-1272. Historical Society of the Church in Wales, no. 1, 1946
Davies P & S Lloyd-Fern. Lost Churches of Wales & the Marches. 1990
Edwards, A G [Archbishop]. Landmarks in the History of the Welsh Church. 1912
Green, C A H. Disestablishment and Disendowment; the Experience of the Church in Wales. 1935
Gregory, Donald. Country Churchyards In Wales . Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1991, indexed by Place Name.
Harris, C & R Startup. The Church in Wales: the Sociology of a Traditional Institution. UWP, Cardiff, 1999. pp226.
Himbury, D. Mervyn. THE SOUTH WALES BAPTIST COLLEGE (1807-1957). Gomerian Press, Llandysul, 1957
Hughes, William. A History of the Church of the Cymry. London, 1894
#Jones, Anthony. Welsh Chapels. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd (Stroud, Gloucestershire) in association with the National Museums & Galleries of Wales. Original published 1984 revised edition 1996.
Jones, R Tudur. Hanes Annibyniaeth Cymru. 1966
Jones, Penri. Capeli Cymru. Y Lolfa, 1980
Morgan, J Vyrnwy [ed]. Welsh Religious Leaders in the Victorian Era. 1905
Newell, E J. A history of the Welsh Church. 1895
Rees, Thomas & Thomas, John. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru. 1873 - here is a listing of the NAMES of chapels/places from each county's contents page from the CD of this 4 volume book published by Archive CD Books. There are also a complete extract of the chapel histories for 9 of the 14 Welsh counties - in Welsh, many with translations .
Rees, Thomas. History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales. 2nd ed, 1883
Stephens, T [ed]. Welsh Independent Church (Yr Eglwys Annibynol Cymru), published and printed by Joseph Williams of Merthyr Tydfil, 1888. It contains biographies of 267 past students ordained between 1755 and 1880. The theological college moved from Abergavenny to Oswestry, to Llanfyllin and to Newtown before coming to rest at Brecon.
The Church in Wales , 1939 and 1959, Official Handbooks . They include brief career details (similar to those appearing in "Crockford") for all clergy active in the Church in Wales at the relevant dates
The Welsh Church Year Book 1929. Published by The Representative Body of The Church in Wales. Cardiff, 1928. pp 624 including over 130 pages of biographies of clergy. A Cd containing a scanned copy of the book was published by Archive CD Books in 2002. With the permission of the latter part of the statistical data for parishes in the counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire has been extracted onto those GENUKI parish pages. The Explanatory notes state that;
- Where parishes have been grouped or divided then the acreage is unreliable, some town figures are not given.
- Population figures are according to the 1921 census returns.
Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp. The Church in Wales from the Reformation to the Present Day. A brief Historical Sketch in Four Essays. W Spurrell, 1910. p152. In Dec 2006 this book was downloadable from Microsoft's Windows Live site
Walker, David.[ed]. A History of the Church in Wales. C of E , 1976 & 1990.
Walters, Dr Huw. ' Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru. Llyfrau a Llyfrynnau: Siroedd Ceredigion, Dinbych, Fflint, Meirionydd, M^on, Morgannwg, Mynwy, Penfro', Y Cofiadur, 52 (1987), pp.27-35. A bibliography of Welsh Congregational chapel histories
Williams, Glanmor. The Welsh Church from Conquest to Reformation. 2nd ed., UWP, 1976
National Library of Wales. Manuscripts and Records. An online searchable index of Marriage Bonds and Allegations.It contains details of some 90,000 marriages by licence which took place in Wales between 1616
National Library of Wales. Manuscripts and Records. An online searchable index of Marriage Bonds and Allegations.It contains details of some 90,000 marriages by licence which took place in Wales between 1616 and 1837.
The UK Church Directory Information on 35,000 Christian churches and chapels
Parish register copies (Wales) in the library of the Society of Genealogists.
Quaker Records in Wales An introduction to the type of records that are available by the Quaker FHS
IGI and Familysearch Here is the searchable LDS website
IGI Batch Numbers-British Isles
It is not always easy to locate your ancestors on the IGI using the search mechanisms provided at the above LDS site. Manually typing the batch numbers into the IGI search screen can be tedious. Hugh Wallis has made an exhaustive search of the likely ranges of batch numbers and created a database of those numbers and the source records that they apply to. A very powerful feature included is a hotlink from each batch number to the actual search engine provided at the Family Search site, including the ability to enter the surname you are looking for. This makes it very easy to search all the batches for a particular geographic location using just the last name you are searching for - something that is not possible directly from the LDS site without doing a lot of typing. This is Hugh Wallis's site
The A2A database of pre 1858 probate entries for the Welsh dioceses is at http://www.a2a.org.uk/default.asp
Clifford, D.J.H. My Ancestors were Congregationalists [In England & Wales, with a list of extant Registers and their whereabouts]. SoG, 1992.
Ifans, Dafydd [ed]. Cofrestri Anghydfurol Cymru/ Nonconformist Registers of Wales. Aberystwyth, 1994. This book includes Ordnance Survey references for listed chapels.
MacDonald, R W. The Parish Registers of Wales, National Library of Wales journal. 1976, Winter. Volume XIX/4
Williams, C.J. and Watts-Williams, J. Cofrestri Plwyf Cymru: Parish Registers of Wales (National Index of Parish Registers, Vol. 13).Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, Second edition, 2000.
The Crime and Punishment database on the NLW site comprises data about crimes, criminals and punishments included in the gaol files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until its abolition in 1830. The Court could try all types of crimes, from petty thefts to high treason. In practice, most of the petty crimes were heard at the Courts of Quarter Sessions, whose records are held by the Welsh county record offices. Details about these records can be searched at Archives Network Wales. The records of the Court of Great Sessions do not include cases tried in Monmouthshire since that county formed part of the Oxford Assize circuit, whose records are held by the National Archives. There are, however, a number of cases of Monmouthshire interest on this database.
There is a Wales related Crime and Punishment section on Gareth's Help Page
An Index of Welsh debtors in the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, 1804-1862. Published by the London branch of Welsh Family History Societies, Sept 2001. This is an index of Welsh people who were recorded in the London Gazette as having gone through the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors for England [and Wales]. There are 6684 debtors indexed plus over a thousand "reference" entries such as variant names, business partners, landlords, relations and so on. An extensive 14 one through the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors for England [and Wales]. There are 6684 debtors indexed plus over a thousand "reference" entries such as variant names, business partners, landlords, relations and so on. An extensive 14 page introduction written by Stephen van Dulken accompanies the index. It is to be sold as a 10 fiche set by the London branch of the Dyfed FHS.Parry, Glyn. A Guide to the Records of the Great Sessions in Wales. NLW, 1995.
Phillips, J R S. The Justices of the Peace in Wales and Monmouthshire 1541-1689, Cardiff, 1975
Probate Records in the National Library of Wales, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (1990).
Tamblin, Stuart. Criminal Register Indexes 1805 - 1816 Wales & Mon (Pub by Family History Indexes(also supplement of executions, rioters and machine breakers
Held at Ceredigion Archives;
Digital Library of Historical Directories A Project by the University of Leicester. In March 2006 there were 54 entries for Wales on there
A Directory of Wales : Part 1 extracted from the Universal British Directory 1793-1798. An eighteenth century record of the Gentry, Clergy, Lawyers, Physics and the General Traders of northern and central Wales (Clywd / Gwynedd / Dyfed / Powys) .Wimborne, Dorset:1998
Rowntree, Kenneth & Gwyn Jones (Professor). A Prospect of Wales. A series of 20 water-colours by Kenneth Rowntree and an essay on Wales by Gwyn Jones. Penguin, 1948. A delightful little book of 51 pages.
Kelly's Directory South Wales 1910. Sections from this CD by Archive CD Books are extracted as follows;
- General description of South Wales together with a breakdown of the Poor Law Unions. Also details of the 3 District Probate Registries.
- List of the Principal Seats in South Wales
- Principal Markets and Fairs in South Wales
Pigot's Directories of North Wales, South Wales and Monmouthshire 1822-3
Pigot & Co Directory South Wales 1844. An extraction of the general description section from this CD by Archive CD Books, includes population statistics.
Slaters Directory of North and South Wales 1858-1859
On Caryl Williams's site - Passenger list of the Barque "Gwen Evans" of Wales 1842 entering the Port of Boston, 15th August 1842
Welsh-American Genealogical Society
The British Presence in Southern Patagonia (Argentina & Chile). A really useful site - lots of databases and history
Welsh Mormon History Immigrants section contains database of names, birth date/place of origin - almost 4000 entries
The Welsh in Oneida County, New York . By Paul Demund Evans. This is an electronic version of a book which is often cited by scholars and historians as a source of information on the Welsh in New York State.
THE DIARY OF KETURAH DAVIES. Part of the Welsh Family History Archive. " A transcript of the original diary written on board the emigrant vessel Schah Jehan which departed from Plymouth, England, 23rd August 1860, and arrived at Port Adelaide, Australia, 2nd December 1860. "
For some guidance notes and an extensive database of related web sites, see the Emigration section of Gareth's Help Page
Some of the reasons behind Early emigration from Wales (from Data Wales).
The Welsh and Slavery in America . A Data Wales site
Researching from Abroad A Genuki page
The Wales-Ohio Project a NLW sponsored site
Newspaper notice in the 'Cambrian' Newspaper 29th August 1873. "New South Wales Government - Emigration; The New South Wales Government has resumed Emigration. The classes for whom passages will be provided are those who can pay one-third of their passage money. Married couples, not exceeding 35 years of age, mechanics, farmers, miners, vine-dressers, labourers and domestic servants, not excluding small WORKING CAPITALISTS in any branch of colonial industry. They must be of sound mental and bodily health, and of good moral character. Applications either in writing or personally at No. 3 Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street, Westminster, S.W. --- Charles Cowper, Agent General
Ashton, Elwyn T. The Welsh in New Zealand. 198?. 77pp
Beddoe, Deirdre. Welsh Convict Women - a study of women transported from Wales to Australia 1787 - 1852.
Bennett, Carol. In Search of the Red Dragon: the Welsh in Canada. Ontario, 1985
Blackwell, Henry. A bibliography of Welsh Americana. 1942. pp97
Conway, Alan (ed). The Welsh in America, letters from the immigrants. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1961
Cymry Llundain Ddoe a Heddiw. (London Welsh people yesterday and today). London, 1956
Dennis, Ronald D. The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Emigration. Bookcraft, Salt Lake, 1987
Dodd, A H. The Character of Early Welsh Emigration to the United States. UWP, 1953(?1957)
Dodd, A H. Letters from Welsh Settlers in New York State, 1816-44 NLW journal, Vol IX/1, Summer 1955. 'Two bundles of letters from Welsh settlers, preserved in the National Library, give some enlightening glimpses of their life during the pioneering days.'
Greenslade, David. Welsh Fever - Welsh Activities in the US and Canada Today. 1986
Hanes Cymry Minnesota. Foreston A Lime Springs, la[Iowa]. Dan Oligaeth, Parchn Thos E Hughes a David Edwards: Mri.Hugh G Roberts a Thomas Hughes Yn Addurnedig A Darluniau Lluaws O Hen Sefydlwyr, Pregethwyr, A Dynion Cyhoeddus Eraill. 1895, Mankato minn [Minnesota], The Free Press Printing Company.This book deals with the many Welsh who emigrated to Minnesota, often mentions names of parents and other family left behind, sometimes the actual name of the farm.
Hartmann, Edward G. Ph.D. Americans From Wales 1967 ,The Christopher Publishing House, Boston, Massachusettes, USA
Jones, A R. The Welsh Builder on Merseyside. Annals and Lives. 1946
Jones, Aled and Jones, Bill. Welsh Reflections: Y Drych & America 1851-2001. Gomer, Llandysul (1 84323 0216). Gomer Catalogue 2002;- "Y Drych is North America's oldest Welsh newspaper. From its origins in the bustling streets of downtown Manhattan in 1851, it survived the Civil War to emerge in the last decades of the nineteenth century as America's leading Welsh language newspaper, connnecting readers right across the United States and Canada............................this book tells its fascinating story"
Jones, Bill. Wales in America: Scranton and the Welsh 1860-1920 . Cardiff and Scranton: University of Wales Press and University of Scranton Press, 1993.
Jones, Bill. 'The Welsh Language and Welsh Identity in a Pennsylvanian Community' in G. H. Jenkins ed., Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998)
Jones, Bill. 'Cousin Dai and Cousin Dilys' South Australia's nineteenth-century Welsh heritage' , Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, Vol. 29 (1999)
Jones, Bill. 'Welsh Identities in Ballarat, Australia, during the Late Nineteenth Century', Welsh History Review, 20 (2) (December 2000).
Jones, Emrys (ed). The Welsh in London, 1500-2000. Hon Society of Cymmrodorion, 2001. Here is a listing of contents and illustrations - with some quotations
Kneller, Pamela. Welsh Immigrant Women as Wage Earners in Utica, New York, 1860-70. Llafur, vol 5/4 1991
Knowles, Anne Kelly. Calvinists Incorporated -- Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. University of Chicago, 1997
Lewis, Idwal. Welsh Newspapers and Journals in the United States of America. National Library of Wales Journal, Summer 1942, Vol II/3 & 4.
Lloyd, Lewis. Australians from Wales. Gwynedd Archives. 1988
Nash, M.D. 'The Settler Handbook' . Contains a listing all those who emigrated to South Africa under the 1820 Settlers scheme. Over 1,000 families from across the country sailed on 17 ships on government assisted passages. There are certainly some from Wales
O'Leary, Dr Paul. Immigration and Integration: the Irish in Wales, 1798-1922.University of Wales Press (2000).
Owen, Bob. Welsh American Newspapers and Periodicals. National Library of Wales Journal, Winter 1950, Vol VI/ 4.
Owen, G D. Crisis in Chebut. A chapter in the history of the Welsh Colony in Patagonia. 1977
Ships of our Ancestors 1983 Genealogical Publishing Co. Contains 264 pages with photographs of ships used in immigration to USA , indexed by ship's name
Thomas, Peter. Strangers from a Secret Land. Univ. Toronto Press, 1986. Covers Welsh emigration to eastern Canada in the early 19th century.
Vincentelli, Moira. The Davies family and Belgian Refugee Artists & Musicians in Wales. NLW Journal XXII (1981)
Williams, Daniel Jenkins. The Welsh Community of Waukesha County (Wisconsin).1926. This book mentions over 600 individuals who came from the Teifi Valley to Wales/Genesee (Towns), Waukesha County, Eastern Wisconsin, USA in the 1840--1850's period. The abstract lists individuals by family, local nickname, marital relationships, children, shire and farm/parish (if available) in Wales, and some birth and death dates as well as Wisconsin moves. Here is an index compiled by David Jones of names found in this book which links to a pdf file containing genealogical details extracted about the people listed.
Williams, David. The Contribution of Wales to the United States of America. National Library of Wales Journal, Summer 1942, Vol II/3 & 4.
Williams, Gwyn A. The Search for Beulah Land. The Welsh and the Atlantic Revolution. 1980
Williams, Gwyn. The Desert and the Dream. A Study of Welsh Colonisation in Chebut 1865-1915. UWP, 1975
Williams, Peter N. From Wales to Pensylvania. Wales Books, 2002
Search the GENUKI Gazetteer. The GENUKI Gazetteer covers the whole of England, Wales and Scotland and can be searched by place-name (or part of a place-name) or Ordnance Survey Grid Reference (six-figure, eg NZ183848). If there are multiple place-names matching the name you enter, you will initially be presented with a drop-down list of the matching place-names with their distances and bearings from Cardiff, Wales.
Tallis's Topographical Dictionary of England and Wales, published in 1860 in six vols, editor E. L. Blanchard. See Welsh Family History Archive
which includes county maps (showing the hundreds)
From the preface;
"In the following pages will be found fully described the past history and present aspect of every place of any significance in England and Wales, forming a work of permanent importance to the commercial world, of ready service to the tourist of the "In the following pages will be found fully described the past history and present aspect of every place of any significance in England and Wales, forming a work of permanent importance to the commercial world, of ready service to the tourist of the day, and of constant interest to the general reader, who may derive from this source a large supply of entertainment, as well as of information for the amusement and instruction of a leisure hour."
The Ordnance Survey have provided an online search facility for place-names occurring on their current Landranger 1:50000 maps. This covers England, Scotland and Wales.
A searchable database of places in the 1891 census. This covers England, Wales and the Isle of Man and returns the County, Registration District, Registration Sub-District, PRO Piece Number and LDS Film Number.
An online Parish Locator covering the whole of the UK. This includes facilities for listing other churches and parishes within any specified distance of the parish church.
The National Gazetteer of Wales A site by GeogData: Geographical Data Services. Includes OS grid references
Vision of Britain - the site has the full descriptive text of 3 C19th Gazetteers (over 90,000 entries)
Lewis, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Wales. 1st ed 1833, various later editions up to 1850. Many of the Wales county parish pages of Genuki now have extracts from the 1833 ed., full or partial.
The Return of Owners of Land 1873 for all the Welsh counties on Richard Hopkins' site
Bowen, I. The Great Enclosure of the Common Fields in Wales. 1914
Chapman, J. A Guide to Parliamentary Enclosures in Wales. Cardiff, 1992
Davies, John. The End of the Great Estates and the Rise of Freehold Farming in Wales.Welsh History Review, 7 [1954]
Davies, Robert. Estate Maps of Wales 1600-1836. Aberystwyth, 1982
Edwards, Nancy [ed]. Landscape and Settlement in Medieval Wales. Oxford, 1997.
Evidence, Report and Appendices of the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire. 1894/5/6
Guide to the Department of Manuscripts and Records. The National Library of Wales. Aberystwyth, 1994.
This lists the various estate papers, deeds and documents deposited there.Hughes, T J . Landlordism in Wales. 1887
James, Brian Ll. The Great Landowners of Wales in 1873. National Library of Wales journal. 1966, Summer Volume XIV/3
James, Evan L. 'The Freeholders' in John Rowlands' Welsh Family History: a Guide to Research, 1993
Lloyd, Thomas. The Lost Houses of Wales , this is a survey, complete with photographs of country houses in Wales demolished since c.1900
Palmer, A N. A History of Ancient Tenures of Land in the Marches of North Wales. 1885
Report of Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire [C8221]. 1896
Reports of the Welsh Agriculture Land Sub-Commission; Mid Wales Investigation Report. House of Commons 1955/6
Smith, Peter. Houses of the Welsh Countryside. 1975/1988 (HMSO) 604pp. numerous plates, figs. and maps.
Stapledon, R G. (ed.): A survey of the agricultural and waste lands of Wales. London 1936.
Thomas, D Lleufer. The Welsh Land Commission. A Digest of its Reports. Whitaker, 1896. 509 pp
Vincent, J E. Tenancy in Wales. Caernarfon, 1889.
Watt, Helen . Welsh manors and their records (Aberystwyth, 2000)
Wiliam, Eurwyn. The Historic Farm Buildings of Wales. 1986
http://www.cymraeg.org.uk/ "apertium-cy, the first free automatic translator for Welsh"
Welsh/English and English /Welsh online dictionary (Univ of Wales, Lampeter)
Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language.
Wales Language Guide provided by Britannia
A site for Welsh learners
Welsh/English Dictionary from BBC Wales - part of their Learn Welsh site
Welsh Language Board Details of schemes and publications, including Cysill (Welsh spellchecker) and CysGair (Welsh/English dictionary).
Sounds of Wales Listen to the pronunciation of over 200 Welsh place-names - on John Ball's site.
The Story of Welsh - on BBC Wales
Voice Recordings - on BBC Wales A series of recorded interviews in Welsh and English from different parts of Wales
Gwybodiadur - A Welsh Informationary from Harry Campbell - "a directory of language resources for Welsh learners and teachers, offering reviews, listings, links, pages of background information and useful contacts".
Aitchison, J W & Harold Carter. Spreading the Word: the Welsh Language 2001. Talybont, 2004
Davies, Janet. The Welsh Language. Cardiff, 1993
Davies, Russell. 'Language and Community in south-west Wales c 1800-1914' in Geraint H Jenkins Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century, 1998
Evans, D Simon. A Grammar of Middle Welsh.
Jenkins, H. Geraint. Language and Community in the nineteenth century. Cardiff, 1998
Jenkins, H Geraint. The Welsh Language before the Industrial Revolution. Cardiff, 1997
Jenkins, Geraint H and Mari A Williams (eds). Let's do our best for the ancient tongue; the Welsh Language in the twentieth century. (ISBN 0-7083-1658-1) "This is the sixth volume in a groundbreaking series of studies on the social history of the Welsh language...."
Jones, Dot. Statistical Evidence relating to the Welsh Language 1801-1911. Cardiff, 1998
Jones, Philip Henry & Eiluned Rees. A Nation and its Books. A history of the book in Wales. 1998
Morgan, Gerald. The Dragon's Tongue - The Fortunes of the Welsh Language. 1996
Morris-Jones, J. A Welsh Grammar Phonology & Accidence. Oxford UP, 1970
Owen, William. A Grammar of the Welsh Language. 1803
Parry-Williams, T H. The English Element in Welsh. 1923
Parry-Jones, D. Some Thoughts and Notes on the English of South Wales. National Library of Wales journal. 1974, Winter. Volume XVIII/4
Pryce, W T R. Wales as a Culture Region. Trans Hon Soc Cymm. 1968
Pryce, W T R. Welsh and English in Wales, 1750-1971; a spatial analysis based on the Linguistic Affiliation of Parochial communities. Bull. Bd. Celtic Studies, xxviii Nov 1978
Publishing in the Welsh Language. HMSO 1978
Pugh, William Owen. Dictionary of the Welsh Language. Denbigh, 1891
Report of the Committee on Welsh Language Publishing. House of Commons 1951/2
Richards, William. A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English. Downloadable free from the Project Gutenberg site - transcribed from the 1861 Hughes and Son edition by David Price
Stephens, Meic. The Welsh Language Today. 1973
Strachan, J. An Introduction to Early Welsh. Manceinion, 1909. p292.
The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire; report on the Welsh Language today. House of Commons 1963/4
The Legal Status of the Welsh Language; Report of the Committee. House of Commons 1964/5
Thomas, Alun R. The Linguistic Geography of Wales. Cardiff, 1973
Thomas, J Gareth. The Geographical Distribution of the Welsh Language. Geog Jnl 122, 1956
Walters, John. English and Welsh Dictionary (plus a dissertation on the Welsh language). Dolgellau, 1815
Williams, D Trevor. A Linguistic Map of Wales. Geog Jnl 89, 1937
Williams, Glyn. (ed) Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales. 1978
Williams, Stephen. Elfennau Gramadeg Cymraeg.
The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts: Manorial Documents Register: lists the whereabouts of manorial documents in England and Wales. The register for Wales is indexed, this is searchable by county then individual manor.
Watt, Helen. Welsh Manors and Their Records "This important reference and historical work has grown out of the Welsh Manorial Records Database Project and is published by the National Library of Wales, 2000
Map of England and Wales by S Lewis & Co, London, c 1840 - scale 1" : 5 miles
Welsh county maps by Samuel Lewis and published in 1833Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 maps - on the British History Online site. Full Welsh coverage
Lewis Morris and William Morris Charts of the Welsh coastline by Lewis Morris (1701-1765) and his son, William Morris
Thomas Taylor The Principality of Wales exactly described [...] published by Thomas Taylor (fl. 1670-1730) in 1718 was the first published atlas relating entirely to Wales
Maps of England and Wales in 1643 (808k) and Maps of England and Wales 1660-1892 (479k) which were obtained courtesy of Ancestry,
Maps of England and Wales in 1643 (808k) and Maps of England and Wales 1660-1892 (479k) which were obtained courtesy of Ancestry, who retain copyright and reserve all rights in them.
Old-maps.co.uk The uniqueness of this site is its detailed C19th & early C20th maps - dated between 1840 and 1948, the exact data range varies with the area, the default scale is 1:10,560, some options are at 1:2500
The Data Wales Maps Page provides several very useful and interesting maps of the principality.
The National Library of Wales, Department of Pictures and Maps holds one of the main historical and contemporary collections of Welsh mapping. Their pages lead to a growing body of online information about the collection.
Maps of Wales, provided by John Ball, shows the location of Wales within the British Isles and the positions of its pre-1974 counties and towns.
'A Vision of Britain through time' contains both C19th
& C20th maps which have parish boundaries marked on them
Search on a parish name, then scroll down to Administrative Units/parish
name - AP/CP, click on that link, scroll down to link Historic boundaries
which takes you to the map section.
Coflein (Royal Conmmission on the Ancient & Historical Documents of Wales) The site has very detailed modern maps - down to individual field level for instance, with named roads
For much more on online maps see Gareth's Help Page
An exceptionally useful set of maps showing parish boundaries, on a one inch to the mile scale,was until 2007 available on CD-ROM - see: Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348. See also details of a name extraction project covering various Welsh counties.
Booth, John. Antiquarian Maps of Wales. 2nd ed. Westbury, 1978
Rees, Wm. An Historical Atlas of Wales from Early to Modern Times. Faber, 1959.
Wheatley, Sandra. Introduction to Maps of Wales. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
The British Army's Museum site
Absent Voters Lists; There was a General Election in 1918. All those away from their place of residence (so including all men in the army) were listed on a Absent Voters ListsThe Royal Regiment of Wales was formed in 1969 by the amalgamation of two of Wales' most famous and distinguished regiments, namely The South Wales Borderers (24th Foot) and The Welch Regiment (41st/69th
The Royal Regiment of Wales was formed in 1969 by the amalgamation of two of Wales' most famous and distinguished regiments, namely The South Wales Borderers (24th Foot) and The Welch Regiment (41st/69th Foot).
The London Gazette. A most useful site, there are records of medals and honours from 1900 to date. Also citations, mentions in despatches, promotions etc for soldiers, sailors and airmen from 1914 - 1920 and 1939 - 1948
The War Diary of the 17th Battalion The Welsh Regiment - The First Glamorgan Bantams - 1916-1918 together with orders and reports etc from the PRO file.
South African War [Boer] 1899-1902 , Welsh casualty List. Published by Glamorgan Family History Society.
A Short History of the Royal Regiment of Wales [24th - 41st Foot]. Regimental Museum.
Conway, Alan. Welsh Soldiers in the Zulu War. National Library of Wales journal Vol XI/1 Summer 1959.
Davies, Reginald[Dr]. Welshmen at the Battle of Trafalgar Was your ancestor a one legged survivor of the Battle ?. Part I. Dyfed FHS journal, Vol 5/5 Dec 1995. Concentrates on the story of one man, James Davis of Pembroke.
Davies, Reginald[Dr]. Welshmen at the Battle of Trafalgar [21 Oct 1805]. Part II. Dyfed FHS journal, Vol 5/6 April 1996. The author refers to the index he has produced of all Welshman at the battle.Dudley Ward, G H. History of the Welsh Guards. London Stamp Exchange Ltd, 1988, facs. ed. 505pp.
Evans, H. T. Wales and the Wars of the Roses. 1998 ed. of book published 1915 (Alan Sutton) xiv + 178 p inc. notes, list of sources and index. 2 maps and family trees.
Phillips, J R. Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches. London, 1874
Retallack, John . The Welsh Guards Foreword by H R H The Prince of Wales. Published (1981) by Frederick Warne (Publishers) Ltd. London. There is an index by Allen Powell.
Tamblin, Stuart. Courts Martials 1914 - 1921 (Family History Indexes)
Tamblin, Stuart. Soldiers executed 1914 - 1920 ( " " " " )
The Welch Regiment (41st & 69th Foot) 1881 -1969 . Compiled by Bryn Owen FMA Welch Regimental Museum, Cardiff Castle
Welshmen in the East India Company Army. Published by the London branch of Welsh Family History Societies
Westlake, Ray. A History of the 38th Welsh Division [WWI]
Westlake, Ray. Welsh Army Corps, 1914-1919. Western Mail, 1921. Reprint
Place names in south Wales - Deric John's growing authoritative collection of place names
The National Gazetteer of Wales
Archives Network Wales place name index
Glossary of Welsh Place Name Elements - on John Ball's site
Welsh Origins of Place Names in Britain - on the Ordnance Survey site
Charles, B G. Non-Celtic Place Names in Wales. University College, London, 1938.
Davies, Elwyn [ed]. A Gazetteer of Welsh Place Names. Cardiff, 1967
Lias, Anthony. A Guide to Welsh Place names. Welsh Heritage Series No 3. Llanrwst, 1994
Lloyd, Annie. Welsh Place and Farm Names,1998
Morgan, Thomas (Dowlais). Handbook of the origin of place-names in Wales and Monmouthshire. 1887, pp.220.
Owen, Hywel Wyn. The place-names of Wales, Cardiff, University of Wales Press : Western Mail (1998) 103 p. University of Wales: Board of Celtic Studies and Davies, E. Rhestr o enwau Ileoedd [A Gazetteer of Welsh Place Names], Cardiff, Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru 1958 & 1989
Welsh Surnames - on the Data Wales site
Welsh Names and Surnames an article by J B Davies reprinted from the South Wales Family History Society Journal (Spring, 1979) III:1.
A Simple Guide to Constructing 13th Century Welsh Names by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn [Heather Rose Jones] The information in this guide is taken from a tax roll called The Merioneth
A Simple Guide to Constructing 13th Century Welsh Names by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn [Heather Rose Jones] The information in this guide is taken from a tax roll called The Merioneth Lay Subsidy Roll of 1292-3.
Medieval Names Archives; Welsh and Cornish Names Several related links
The SOG has an online leaflet on names generally
Surname Profiler Project "A recent research project based at University College London (UCL) has investigated the distribution of surnames in Great Britain, both current and historic, in order to understand patterns of regional economic development, population movement and cultural identity. This website allows users to search the databases that we have created, and to trace the geography and history of their family names......."
Modern British Surnames, a guide to the resources for the study of their frequency and distribution
Table of Common Surname Variations & Surname Misspellings
1851 and 1891 censuses - a database of Jewish Surnames in Wales
Bartrum, P C. Personal Names in Wales in the Fifteenth Century. NLW journal, 1965/6
Celtic Educational Ltd. Welsh First Names for Children ; their meanings explained . 1978
Lloyd, Annie. Welsh Surnames and Given Names, 1996
Morgan, G. Welsh Names in Welsh Wills. Journal of the Society of Archivists, vol XXV. 1995, pp 178-185
Morgan, T J/Morgan, Prys. Welsh Surnames. UWP, 1985.
From the dust jacket;- "Welsh Surnames is the first full-scale study of Welsh surnames and is both a classification and a dictionary. Based on Welsh, Latin and English texts, on parish registers and local histories, it traces the growth of a Welsh surnaming pattern in Wales and the Border at the end of the Middle Ages. This historical picture is completed by evidence taken from modern sources such as electoral registers from Wales and western England, surnames from Welsh and London newspapers, and telephone directories.The book opens with a classification of the various kinds of Welsh surnames besides the innumerable examples of the well-known Welsh patronymic surname; surnames from hypocoristic forms, from anglicisations and approximations of Welsh names, from the forenames of women, from place-names, and many others. This is followed by a dictionary of Welsh surnames which also gives attention to variations and corruptions of the original names.Welsh Surnames is aimed both at the specialist and the general reader, and will be an invaluable tool not only for the historian or the genealogist but also the geographer and sociologist."Rowlands, John. The Homes of Surnames in Wales. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
Rowlands, John & Sheila. The Surnames of Wales. FFHS, 1996
Rowlands, Sheila. Sources for Surname Studies. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
Newsplan Cymru Search here on a place name and it will report on which newspapers cover the area and where extant copies are held
Y Brython. National Library of Wales 'Treasurers' series. A Welsh-language magazine published in Tremadog between 1858 and 1863 under the editorship of Alltud Eifion (1815-1905) and D. Silvan Evans (1818-1903). "The Welsh-language magazine, Y Brython (1858-1863), has been digitised by the National Library in order to consider the amount of work involved and the issues which might arise from a project to digitise the whole of the Library's collection of pre-1900 Welsh and Wales-related periodicals on preservation microfilm....."
Online Newspapers Wales and Online Newsagent - links to Welsh newspaper web sites.
ABYZ News - links to Welsh newspaper web sites
Welsh Newspapers Welsh Library, University of Wales, Bangor "Newspapers are a priceless source, and one which is used extensively for all types of research, academic or otherwise, for subjects such as local and family history, social history, advertising and sport. The collection of the Welsh Library at Bangor is one of the most comprehensive in Wales"
The British Library Newspaper Library It holds the national archive collections in the United Kingdom of British and overseas newspapers.
Jones, Aled. Sir John Gibson and the Cambrian News. Ceredigion, 1994
B. Jones. Report of the NEWSPLAN project in Wales, London, The British Library, 1994, 303 p.
"NEWSPLAN is a comprehensive programme for the identification, microfilming and preservation of the local newspapers of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland." The book contains a very detailed listing of over a thousand (Welsh and English language) newspapers published in Wales during the period 1804-1992, indicating which issues have been preserved (either in their original form or microfilmed) in which libraries and archives. Amongst several indexes there is a very useful one "by place of publication and main areas of distribution". Thus though intended for librarians, the book is also of use to genealogists and others who wish to use newspapers as sources of information related to Welsh 19th and 20th century history.Trollope, Glynden. (ed) The Cambrian, And General Weekly Advertiser For the Principality of Wales 1804 - 1930. Published 2003 . Indexed by Gareth Hicks
Brython: A Welsh-language magazine published in Tremadog between 1858 and 1863.
On the NLW's Digital Mirrot site.
"The Welsh-language magazine, Y Brython (1858-1863), has been digitised by
the National Library in order to consider the amount of work involved and the
issues which might arise from a project to digitise the whole of the Library's
collection of pre-1900 Welsh and Wales-related periodicals on preservation
microfilm"
Internet Library of Early Journals ; A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals which currently include;
History of the United Kingdom -- Primary Documents Various online transcripts including some newspapers and periodicals eg London Gazette, Penny Magazine.
For a list of denominational magazines and historical periodicals see under Religion and Religious Life
Subject Index to Welsh Periodicals 1931-1955. Seven volumes bound as one book giving an alphabetical index of subject and the appropriate reference. It refers to both English language and Welsh language periodicals. The subjects are very diverse ; people, places,"things", medical conditions, languages , buildings etc etc. Vol 1 1931, Vol 2 1932-33 , Vol 3 1934-35 , Vol 4 1936-37 , Vol 5 1938-40 , Vol 6 1941-45, Vol 7 1946-1955
Guide to the Welsh Periodical Press, 1735-1900. National Library of Wales, 1987.
Walters, Huw. Llyfryddiaeth Cylchgronau Cymreig [A Bibliography of Welsh Periodicals 1735 - 1850] NLW, 1993 . This contains detailed descriptions of the 195 titles which were published within that period, including lists of editors, publishers, printers, place of publication, place of printing etc. The Welsh-American entries, which include Y Cyfaill o'r Hen Wlad yn America ( Methodist monthly, 1838-1932); Y Cenhadwr Americanaidd (Congregational monthly, 1840-1904)); Y Seren Orllewinol (Baptist monthly, 1844-1869); Y Wawr (another Baptist monthly, 1871-1898), as well as the Welsh Mormon publications: Prophwyd y Jubili (1846-1849) and Udgorn Seion (1849-1862) provide a wealth of information on Welsh emigration to the United States. Here is an introduction to the book by the author
Walters, Huw. Llyfryddiaeth Cylchgronau Cymreig [A Bibliography of Welsh Periodicals 1851-1900]. NLW, 2004. ISBN 1862250405. Hardback, 640p.
A detailed bibliography of Welsh periodicals from 1851 to 1900 comprising information about almost 900 periodicals, together with a thorough survey of the Welsh periodical press from 1735 to 1900. Over 120 black-and-white illustrations. Here is a review of the book by Ieuan Gwynedd JonesWilkins, Charles (ed). The Red Dragon. The National Magazine for Wales. Known to have been published at least 1882-5.
David Lloyd George's Diary for 1886. The National Library of Wales 'Treasures' series.
The National Assembly for Wales
The Secretary of State for Wales
Crime and Punishment Database - at the NLW.
"Comprises data about crimes, criminals and punishments included in the gaol files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until its abolition in 1830. The Court could try all types of crimes, from petty thefts to high treason."
Books marked # have an entry on the separate 'Review/Contents' page.
Adamson, D L. Class, Idealogy & the Nation. A Theory of Welsh Nationalism. UWP, 1991
Chappell, E L. The Government of Wales. 1943
Daniel, J E. Welsh Nationalism; What it Stands for. 1937
Davies, D C. The Present Condition of the Welsh Nation. Red Dragon, IV, 1883, p350
Davies, D J. The Economics of Welsh Self-Government. 1931
Davies, D Hywel. The Welsh Nationalist Party, 1925-45; a call to nationhood. 1983
Dodd, A H. 'Tuning' the Welsh Bench, 1680. National Library of Wales Journal, Summer 1950, Vol VI/ 3.
Dodridge, Sir John. An Historical Account of the Ancient and Modern State of the Principality of Wales, Duchy of Cornwall and Earldom of Chester. Second print, 1714. 147pp
#Egan, David. People, Protest and Politics Case studies in C19 Wales. Gomer 1987. In Gomer's 2002 Catalogue (0 86383 350 0)
Evans, E W. Mabon. (William Abraham, 1842-1922): a study in Trade Union leadership. GPC, 1959. pp115
Francis, Hywel. Welsh Miners and the Spanish Civil War. Jnl of Contemp. History. v/3 1970
Fullarton, A . Parliamentary Gazeteer of England and Wales, 1840-4
Gowan, Ivor. Government in Wales in the Twentieth Century, in J A Andrews (ed) ' Welsh Studies in Public Law' 1970
Hearder, H. and Loyn, H. R. (eds.) British Government and Administration. 1974 (Univ. Wales Press) chapters on Wales are:
- Government and the Welsh Community: the North-East Borderland in the 15th Century [J. Gwynfor Jones]
- Patronage, Politics, and the Principality of Wales, 1413-1461 [R. A. Griffiths]
- Prophecy, Poetry, and Politics and Medieval and Tudor Wales [Glanmor Williams]
- The "Coercion" of Wales Act", 1904 [G. O. Pierce]
James, Arnold J.et al. Wales in Westminster. Gwasg Gomer 1981. Includes details of all contested election results from 1800 to 1979 and short biographies of all Welsh MPs elected in 1832, 1892, 1923, 1945 and 1979
James, Arnold & John E Thomas. Union to Reform: a History of the Parliamentary Representation of Wales, 1536-1832. Llandysul, 1986
Jenkins, Dafydd and Morfydd E Owen (eds). The Welsh Law of Women. 1980
Jenkins, Geraint H. and Beverley Smith, J. Politics and Society in Wales, 1840-1922: Essays in Honour of Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1988.
John, Edward T. Home Rule for Wales. Jarvis/Foster, 1912.
Jones, E T. Wales; Its Politics and Economics. 1919
Jones, I G. The Liberation Society and Welsh Politics, 1844-1868. The Welsh History Review, vol,1, no 2, 1961
Jones, I G. Health, Wealth and Politics in Victorian Wales. 1979
Jones, I G. Mid-Victorian Wales: the Observers and the Observed. Cardiff, 1992
Lewis, Hubert. (ed J E Lloyd). The Ancient Laws of Wales. Elliot Stock London, 1889. 558pp
Local Government in Wales. House of Commons 1967
Lort-Phillips, P. The Future of Wales. 1961
Madgwick, Peter and others. The Politics of Rural Wales. 1973
Morgan, J Vyrnwy [ed]. Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Nineteenth Century. 1908
Morgan, K O. Wales in British Politics 1868-1922. Rev. ed, UWP, Cardiff, 1991. pp363
Morgan, K O. Lloyd George (British Prime Minister Series). 1974
Morgan, K O. Lloyd George and the Historians. Trans Hon Soc Cymm. 1972
Morgan, K O. Gladstone and Wales. Welsh History Review, vol 1/1 1960
Morgan, Kenneth O. Labour's Early Struggles in South Wales: Some New Evidence, 1900-8. National Library of Wales journal. 1972, Winter Volume XVII/4
Morgan, Kenneth O. Modern Wales; Politics, Places and People. 1995
Morgan, K O. The Liberal Unionists in Wales. NLW journal xvi/2 Winter 1969
Morgan, K O. Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922. 3rd ed 1980
Morris, Rhys Hopkin. Welsh Politics. 1927
Our Changing Democracy; Devolution in Scotland and Wales.House of Commons 1975/6, and Supplementary Staement 1976
Parry, C. The Radical Tradition in Welsh Politics. 1970
Philip, Alan B. The Welsh Question; Nationalism in Welsh Politics, 1945-1970. 1975
Pretty, D. The Rural Revolt that Failed. Farm Workers' Trade Unions in Wales, 1889-1950. UWP, 1989
Rees, G L and others. Survey of the Welsh Economy. 1974
Rees, I Bowen. The Welsh Political Tradition. 1961
Rees, William . Calendar of Ancient petitions Relating to Wales. University of Wales Press 1975. List of petitions to Parliament by Welsh people (gentry!) from 1290-1480
Report of Government Action in Wales and Monmouthshire. House of Commons 1945/6
Report of Government Action and Developments in Wales and Monmouthshire. House of Commons 1960/1
Richard, H. Letters on the Social and Political Conditions of the Principality of Wales. 1866
Richards, Melville. Welsh Administrative and Territiorial Units. Cardiff, 1969
Tanner, Duncan and Chris Williams and Deian Hopkin. The Labour Party in Wales, 1900-2000. Cardiff, 2000
The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire; a memorandum on its activities. House of Commons 1950 and Second memo 1952/3, Third memo 1956/7. Fourth memo 1958/9
The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire; reports of the Rural development Panel, House of Commons 1953/4
The Welsh Council; a Strategy for Rural Wales. HMSO 1971
Thomas, Brinley. The Welsh Economy. 1962
Thomas, Ned. The Welsh Extremist. 1970
Thomas, Peter D G. Politics in Eighteenth Century Wales. 1998
Wales; the Way Ahead. House of Commons 1967
Williams, David. A Report on the Turnpike Trusts. NLW journal Vol VIII/2, Winter, 1953.
Williams, David. 'Chartism in Wales' in Asa Briggs (ed) Chartist Studies, 1959
Williams, L J. The New Unionism in Wales. Welsh History Review, vol 1/4
Williams, R. Wales and its money. 1974. 119pp
The Workhouse - on Peter Higginbotham's site
Hospital Records Database A Joint Project of the Wellcome Trust and the National Archives. This database provides information on the existence and location of the records of hospitals in the U.K. Currently over 2,800 entries can be found by searching the database
Index to "Paupers in Workhouses in England & Wales in 1861" (10% sample)
Bowen, I. Grand juries, justices of the peace, and quarter sessions in Wales. Cymmrodorion 1933-35.
Hagen, Grace. Women and Poverty in south-west Wales, 1834-1914. Llafur VII
Howell, David W The Rural Poor in Eighteenth Century Wales. Cardiff, 2000
Jones, Glyn Penrhyn. Newyn a Haint [Famine and plague] yng Nghymru. Caernarfon. 1962
Lewis, T H. The justices of the peace in Wales Cymmrodorion, 1943-44
Lewis, Thomas H. Documents Illustrating the County Gaol and House of Correction in Wales. Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1946-47. 1948 (London).
The Blue Books of 1847. An inquiry into the state of education in Wales - on the NLW's Digital Mirror site
Carter, Richard and Walter Jones. A Late Victorian school in Wales. Gomer, site intro; "This book could support pupils in the study of SU3 of the National Curriculum History Order for Wales, Life in Modern Wales and Britain, will also have a wider appeal to anyone wishing to find out more about what life was like in a school in Wales around a century ago.Through the extensive use of photographs and documentary sources, questions are raised that can either be considered and answered by the pupils themselves using information given in the book, or lead to a general classroom discussion."
Clements, Mary. Correspondence and Minutes of the SPCK relating to Wales 1699-1740 . (Univ Wales Press 1952). Excellent index.
Davies, B L. British Schools in South Wales, The Rev William Roberts (Nefydd), South Wales, Representative of the British and Foreign School Society, 1853-1863 , National Library of Wales journal. 1974, Winter. Volume XVIII/4
Davies, J A. Education in a Welsh Rural County, 1870-1913. 1913
Davies, W. Cadwaladr/Jones, W. Lewis. College Histories: the University of Wales and its Constituent Colleges. 1905 (London).226pp.
Davies, Wynford. Narberth County Intermediate School, 1895-1924 National Library of Wales journal, Vol XXIII/1, Summer 1983. This article deals with the general educational and social background to secondary education in Wales in late Victorian times - as well as Narberth in particular.
Ellis, T I. The Development of Higher Education in Wales. 1935
Evans, D Emrys. The University of Wales. 1953
Evans, Leslie Wynne. Colliery Schools in South Wales in the Nineteenth Century. National Library of Wales journal. 1957, Winter. Volume X/2
Evans, Leslie Wynne. Copper-Works Schools in South Wales during the Nineteenth Century. National Library of Wales journal. 1959, Summer Volume XI/1. There are 27 Appendices which contain data concerning individual schools in Kilvey, Hafod, Llanelly, Pembrey, Margam, Maesteg and Pontamman.
Evans, Leslie Wynne. School Boards and the Works School System after the Education Act of 1870. National Library of Wales journal. 1967, Summer Volume XV/1
Evans, Leslie Wynne. Voluntary Education in the Industrial Areas of Wales before 1870. National Library of Wales journal. Vol XIV/4, Winter 1966
Evans, L Wynne. Studies in Welsh Education. 1974
Jenkins, Geraint H The Foundations of Modern Wales 1642 - 1780. Clarendon Press, University of Wales Press, 1987. Here is an extract of GRIFFITH JONES AND THE CIRCULATING SCHOOLS pages 370 - 381)
Jones, E D. The Journal of William Roberts ('Nefydd'), 1853-62. National Library of Wales journal Vol VIII/2 Winter, 1953 et al. The complete series of eight articles have been extracted by Gareth Hicks'
Introduction; "William Roberts, a Baptist Minister at Blaina, Monmouthshire, and author of Crefydd yr Oesoedd Tywyll... 1852, a study of Mari Lwyd and Welsh folk customs, was in 1853 appointed agent in South Wales for the British and Foreign School Society. He was a native of Lannefydd, Denbighshire, hence his penname 'Nefydd'. The draft of the journal of his activities, written for the information of the Society's Committee, from 1853 to 1862 is preserved as N.L.W. MS. 7106. It is a valuable document for the history of the development of elementary education in South Wales. "Jones, P Mansell. How they Educated Jones. 1974
Jones, W R. Bilingualism in Welsh Education. Cardiff, 1976
List of Public Elementary Schools in Wales on 1 August 1906. House of Commons 1907
Nash, Gerallt D. Victorian School days in Wales. UWP, 1991
Primary Education in Wales. HMSO 1968
Randall, P J. The Origins and Establishment of the Welsh Department of Education. Welsh History Review, vol 7/4 June 1975
Report of Commission of Enquiry into the State of Education in Wales. 3 vols. 1847. This page has some of the Commissioners overview reports relating to Cardiganshire (and Brecknockshire, Radnorshire) as well as a list of the parishes in Cardiganshire that have the individual reports online.
Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the Condition of Higher Education in Wales. House of Commons 1881
Report of the Board of Education on the Administration of Schools under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889. House of Commons 1901
Report and Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on the University of Wales. 1917/18
Report of the Departmental Committee on the organisation of Secondary Education in Wales. House of Commons 1920
Report of the Departmental Committee on Welsh Education and Life. HMSO 1927
Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into Public Education in Wales and Monmouthshire in relation to the needs of Rural Areas. HMSO 1930
Report of the Central Advisory Council on the future of Secondary Education in Wales. HMSO 1949
Report of the Central Advisory Council on the place of Welsh and English in the Schools of Wales. HMSO 1953
Report on Education in Rural Wales. HMSO 1960
Roberts, Gwyneth Tyson. The Language of the Blue Books: the Perfect Instrument of Empire. Cardiff, 1998
Seaborne, Malcolm. Schools in Wales, 1500-1900; a social and architectural history. Denbigh, 1992
Shankland, Thomas[Rev]. Sir John Philipps of Picton, the SPCK and the Charity School Movement in Wales 1699-1737. Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1904-05. This article takes up 142 pp. of the journal. Appendixes give extracts of correspondents, Letters and Minutes of SPCK, here is a List of Names and dates of foundation of Charity-Schools set up in Wales 1699-1737, and List of Charity and Elementary Schools set up in Wales in same period, gives huge amount of detail on schools, numbers of pupils, patrons, etc
Smith, Robert. Schools, politics and society; elementary education in Wales, 1870-1902. Cardiff, 1999
Webster, J R. The First Reports of Owen M. Edwards on Welsh Intermediate Schools. National Library of Wales journal. 1958, Winter Volume X/4. (The schools featured are in Caernarvonshire)
Welsh in Education and in Life. Report to Board of Education. 1927
Williams, Glanmor and others. Pioneers of Welsh Education. 1964
Williams, J Gwynn. The University College of North Wales Foundations 1884-1927
Association of Family History Societies of Wales.
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion "The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion was founded in 1751 and received its Royal Charter in 1951, on the occasion of its bicentenary. Established for the
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion "The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion was founded in 1751 and received its Royal Charter in 1951, on the occasion of its bicentenary. Established for the encouragement of Literature, Science and the Arts as connected with Wales, the society continues to promote the practice and development of literature, the arts and sciences insofar as they are of special interest to Wales, the Welsh people and those interested in Wales"
For individual Family History Societies see: "Family History and Genealogy Societies: Wales".
Jenkins, R T & Ramage, H. History of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion. Y Cymmrodor, L, 1951
The History of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1751-1951. This includes membership lists for the years 1755, 1759, 1762, & 1778. (name, address, place of origin, and in some lists occupation). As well as people living in Wales, includes many London Welsh & Oxbridge scholars amd others.
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