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"ABERPORTH (ABER-PORTH), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 5 1/2 miles (N. E.) from Cardigan, containing 485 inhabitants. This parish is pleasantly situated on the shore of Cardigan bay, St. George's channel, and in a small cove near the mouth of the river Howny, forming a commodious, though small port, which is a creek to the port of Cardigan."
Parish based
sketch map
of the
hundred
[From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]
There are Memorial Inscriptions produced by Dyfed FHS for the district of Aberporth : [Sant Cynwyl, Blaenannerch, Yr Hen Gapel.]
St Cynwyl, Aberporth - photograph on Dyfed FHS
ABERPORTH, St. Cynfil 1854-1857 - on the Church plans online site
Some church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by I.G Jones, & D. Williams. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. The names are those of the informants
Parish entry from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
The church (St.Cynwyl's) and village of Aberporth. Gloucester, 1967
See Notes on Church/Chapel Records page
Parish Register;
Baptisms 1662-1971. Marriages 1662-1971[Banns 1824-1956].Burials 1662-1929 NLW/Cer.RO
Bishops Transcripts; 1674-6, 1678-81, 1683-6, 1689, 1799-1804, 1806-71, 1874 NLW
See Chapels database
Places, villages, farms etc within Aberporth as shown on the parish map on the CD of Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. (Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R.). (Extracted by Gareth Hicks)
Description of the parish of Aber-porth from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.
Kelly's Directory, South Wales, 1910
Aberporth - on Wikipedia
Jones, Gwyn E. Aber-porth revisited; in Folk Life 35.p25-30. 1996-7
Jenkins, David. Aber-porth. A study of a coastal villae in South Cardiganshire.[With plates and maps]
Susan Ellis Berghan's site dedicated to her great-grandfather Captain David Ellis, born in Aberporth in 1829, emigrated c 1847 to the United States.
The Church and village of Aberporth. British Publishing Co., Gloucester, (1967) 24p. [BM X.0808/386]The book Mynegai i Ceredigion [Index to Ceredigion] 1-X, edited by Howells,W.H. 1990, has numerous references under the general heading "Aber-porth ": corn mill, emigration, Hen Gapel, herring industry, ivorites, methodism, nonconformity, offloading cargo on the open beach at, population figures 1801-51, population trend, schools (dissenting school in 1847; salary of a schoolmaster), shipbuilding, shipbuilding trade in the seventeenth century. There are also entries relating to Aber-porth Hoddni, Aber-porth Mutual Ship Insurance Society and Aber-porth Steamship Company Ltd. To take but one example, David Jenkins's 'Cardiff Tramps, Cardi Crews' (Ceredigion x, 405-429) has a sizeable section relating to shipowners from the parish and to the lives of local master mariners.
Galar gan er coffadwriaeth am un ar ddeg o bysgodwyr a foddodd ar gyffiniau Aberteifi pedwar o Landydoch a saith o Aberporth. [Grief in remembering the eleven fishermen who drowned in the vicinity of Aberteifi , four from Landydoch and seven from Aberporth] Publication: S.l. : s.n., Evan Jones : 1815
Jenkins, David ; Jones, Emrys ; Hughes-Jones, T ; Owen, Trefor M. Welsh Rural Communities.[Edited by Davies, Elwyn and Rees, Alwyn]. Cardiff, UWP, 1960.
Edited description of this book from Cardiganshire FHS Journal Vol 2~No 6, Oct 2000. " Four communities are described in this book, two of which are located within our area, namely Aberporth and Tregaron.David Jenkins's study of the South Cardiganshire coastal village of Aberporth illustrates the demographic changes during the period 1801-1931 and analyses the social structure of the village population including education and religion.Agriculture, and the strong connection with the sea and fishing were the main economic activities. Their lives of necessity were governed by the rhythm of the seasons......"Meyrick, Sir Samuel Rush.(1783-1848) The History and Antiquities of the county of Cardigan. Collected from the few remaining documents which have escaped the ravages of time, as well as from actual observation. Longman: London ,1810. The history and antiquities of the County of Cardigan ... to which are now added a parliamentary history, list of High Sheriffs, some notes on the present county families, &c., &c. repr. Brecon: 1907. This 1907 print has now been reprinted. The brief section relating to this parish is on page 208; the last 2 incumbents of the church were the Rev Mr John Thomas and the Rev Mr Tho Thomas. Mentions Plas Aberporth, and Pennaryssa.
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Parochial Records at the NLW;
Here is an extract from The Reports of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of Education in Wales. 1847
Cymdeithas Hanes Aberporth Historical Society - for details see Ceredigion Local History Forum
This page has been partly compiled from material previously published in their journal
by kind permission of Cardiganshire Family History Society
[Gareth Hicks: 22 Feb 2007 ]
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