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EDEYRN

"EDEYRN, a parish in the hundred of Dinlaen, county Carnarvon, 2 miles W. of Nevin. The hamlets of Din-llyn, Perth, and Garswylld are included in this parish The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Bangor, value with the curacies of Carngiwch and Pistill annexed, £362, in the patronage of the bishop." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Bibliography

Rules of the Edeyrn Friendly Society : established 1859. Carnarvon : Printed by G. Parry, 1859.

Church History

EDEYRN, St. Edeyrn 1867-1868 - on the Church plans online site

There are photographs of the following chapels on the Penllyn.com site;
Capel Edern (CM)

Church Records

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

Edern Manuscripts (.. relates in the main to.. Ellis James, who farmed the Vaynol home farm near Bangor) - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"These include accounts relating to Edern C.M. Chapel, 1806-1827; ....... detailed notes of proceedings of, and sermons preached at, the Arfon Monthly Meeting, 1848-1875; notes of proceedings at C.M. Assemblies held in Caernarvonshire, 1853-1858 and the Associations of 1864 and 1870....."

Description and Travel

Edeyrn and Porthdinllaen - on the Penllyn.com site

Gazetteers

Genealogy

Glanrhyd papers  1780-1964 (predominantly 1826-1918) - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Papers of the Hughes family of Glanrhyd, Edern....."
"Additional deposit include; papers for the locality of Edern, including records of the Porthdinllaen branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 1949-1979; papers relating to the South Caernarfon Creameries acquired by J. E. Roberts; religious papers, 1839-1987, concerning various chapels and minister of religion in Caernarfonshire......"

Land and Property

Penybryn (Edern) Papers - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Includes; Deeds and other documents relating to Penybryn and other properties mainly in Edern, Nefyn, 1609-1906

Maps

View maps covering the area of this parish and places within its boundaries

Public Records

Edern Rate Books and Highways Accounts 1860-1885 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"............. which include particulars of manual work and signatures of workers..."

 


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