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LLANDDEUSANT

"LLANDDEUSANT, (or Llandausaint), a parish in the hundred of Taly-Bolion, county Anglesey, 5 miles N.W. of Llanerchymedd, and 7 N.E. of Holyhead. Gwindy is its post town. It is watered by the river Allo. Tho village of Treffynon is in this parish The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bangor, value with the curacies of Llanbabo and Llanvair-ynghornwy annexed, £615, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to SS. Marcellus and Marcell, is an ancient structure." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• History
• Land and Property
• Maps
• Schools

Church History

Capel Horeb Baptist chapel, Llanddeusant, papers [c. 1866]-2001 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales

Hail-agor (re-opening) Eglwys Llanddeusant in Feb 2004    -   on BBC Wales

Capel Elim, Llanddeusant - on the Flickr site

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Llanddeusant section (in Welsh) has been extracted .

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Llanddausaint Parish; Statistics; Area 2011 acres; Population 286 males, 316 females, total 602

• The return for the parish church is missing
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• Elim Calvinistic Methodist        Erected 1822          Attendance - morning 47 + 75 scholars, afternoon 136 scholars, evening 50 + 86 scholars         Edward Hughes, Deacon
• Bethania, Independents          Erected first pre 1800, secondly 1844       Attendance - (average) general congregation 200, scholars 92         Robert Jones, Deacon, Tanlan
• Horeb, Baptist               Erected 1822           Attendance - morning 45 scholars, afternoon 54, evening 60          R Roberts, Minister; Rowlant Williams, Deacon, Shiop, Llanddeusant

Church Records

Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Anglesey Record Office.

Description and Travel

Melin Llynnon Mill at Llanddeusant - a mill dating from 1775, now the only working windmill for grinding corn in Wales - information and pictures

Various Llanddeusant photographs - on the Flickr site

Llanddeusant - on wikipedia

Llynnon Mill, Llanddeusant - on youtube (video)

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Llanddeusant from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
• A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

History

Land and Property

Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);

• Llanddeusant land tax;- 1745-1814: assessments
• Llanddeusant Parish;- 1754-1991: records
• Llanddeusant Parish Council;- 1921: records; additional records
• Llanddeusant tithes;- 1925-34: Tithe Rent Charge account books

Maps

Schools

Ysgol Llanddeusant -  in Welsh, has pictures of local scenes

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