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LLANFAELOG

"LLANFAELOG, a parochial chapelry in the hundred of Llyfon, county Anglesey, 3 miles N. W. of Aberffraw, and 6 from Gwindy, its post town. The Ty Croyes station on the Chester and Holyhead railway is within a short distance of the village. It is situated N. of Carnarvon Bay, and includes the hamlet of Pengornisiog, Many of the inhabitants are engaged in the fishery. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory* of Llanbeulan, in the diocese of Bangor. The church, dedicated to St. Maelog, is a modern structure, said to have been erected on the same spot as one built about the 7th century. The Calvinistic Methodists have a place of worship. There are charities of about £2 per annum. There are two cromlechs in this parish." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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

Church History

St Maelog's website - history, photographs etc

Horeb chapel, Rhosneigr (Wesleyan) - opened in 1904, cause ended in 1986, now Rhosneigr Evangelical Church

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Maelog 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.

Llanfaelog Parochial Chapelry; Statistics; Area 2732 acres; Population 399 males, 401 females, total 800

• Llanfaelog Parochial Chapelry         Erected 1848          Attendance - usual morning 60             Informant; Owen Williams
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• Paran, Calvinistic            Erected 1828      Attendance - morning 79 scholars, afternoon 93, evening 80       Thomas Owen, Manager, Rhosneigr
• Bryn Du, Calvinistic Methodist           Erected 1795 (old), 1814 (present)            Attendance - morning 205, afternoon 155 scholars, evening 239        Owen Williams, Elder, Neuadd
• Rehoboth, Independent            Erected 1827           Attendance - morning 34 scholars, afternoon 75, evening 51                 W Morris, Minister, Brynwran
• Pencornisiog, Wesleyan Methodist        Erected 1823     Attendance - (average) morning 41 scholars, afternoon 60 + 12 scholars, evening 65 + 17 scholars      William Lloyd, Steward

Church Records

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

Description and Travel

Ty Newydd Neolithic Burial Chamber. Llanfaelog - on the stone-circles site

Gazetteers

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

Land and Property

Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);

• Llanfaelog land tax;- 1744-1814: assessments
• Llanfaelog Parish;- 1754-1971: records
• Llanfaelog Parish Council;- 1921: valuation list
• Llanfaelog tithes;- 1925-36: Tithe Rent Charge account books
• Llanfaelog window tax;- 1751-60: assessments

Maps

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