Caernarvonshire

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Bangor

"BANGOR, a parish, city, borough, and market town, in the hundred of Uwch-gorfai, in the county of Carnarvon, North Wales, 9 miles to the N.E. of Carnarvon, and 238 miles by railway from London. It is situated on the north coast of the county, at the head of the bay of Beaumaris, and at the entrance to the Menai Strait, and is a station on the Holyhead railway, which is carried across the strait by the great Britannia Tubular Bridge, not far from the city. This place has existed from a very early period; but the precise time of its foundation is not known. It is the oldest see in Wales, except Llandaff, its first bishop having been appointed about A.D. 560. King Edgar confirmed the privileges of the bishopric, and added to its endowments." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Bibliography

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Business and Commerce Records

Carter, Vincent & Co., Solicitors, Papers  1747-1925 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Carter, Vincent & Co., Solicitors, of Bangor operated in North Wales during the 19th and 20th centuries, dealing with property and individuals in Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire..."

Census

• 1851 Census of Bangor. A full transcription by Joyce & Douglas Hinde in surname order.

Church History

Old prints site - Bangor Cathedral

Esgobaeth Bangor Diocese - Bangor Cathedral

Penrallt Baptist Church, Bangor

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for Bangor chapel (in Welsh )    Also Bethmaaca chapel         Also Beulah chapel ?     Also Bangor (Seisnig) chapel      Also Pentir chapel

Church Records

Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at the Caernarfon Area Record Office.

Bangor English Methodist Circuit records - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"........ The Caernavon English [Wesleyan] Circuit, Caernarfonshire, was later known as Caernarvon and Bangor English [Wesleyan] Circuit. In 1897, the Caernarvon and Bangor English [Wesleyan] Circuit established a missioner at Porthmadog. The Caernarvon and Bangor English [Wesleyan] Circuit was later known as Bangor English Methodist Circuit."

Description and Travel

Bangor - on Wikipedia

A Matra site -  19th century Bangor

Heritage Trail site - Bangor (Garth) Pier

Bangor - old photographs - on Andrew Woodvine's site

Gazetteers

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

Maps

Newspapers

North Wales Newspapers - The Chronicle

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc. 

Public Records

Bangor Borough Council Records 1819-1974 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Bangor Borough Council was formed in 1883..... Bangor Burial Board had been established in 1859, and maintained the cemetery until Bangor Borough Council took over in 1899. The Bangor Water and Gas Company was founded in 1853 as the Bangor Waterworks Company and merged the following year with the Bangor Gas and Coke Company. It was bought by Bangor Local Board of Health in 1878 and run as a public utility until its functions were assumed by the new Bangor Council in 1883. In 1974, the Borough Council was abolished and became part of Arfon Borough Council."

Schools

Papers relating to Administration and Estate lands of Friars' School [post 1536]-1968 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"The Bangor Old Grammar School, Bangor, commonly known as Friars' School, was established in 1557 following instructions in the will of Dr Geoffrey Glyn of Anglesey (d. 1557), a civil lawyer, which provided the site of the dissolved Dominican Friary and its lands in Bangor for a school to educate children from poor families. The Bangor Old Grammar School moved to a new site in 1900. The school is now part of Coleg Menai"

Societies

Bangor Civic Society

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