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"BETTWS-IEUVAN, or EVAN (BETTWS-IEUAN), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 5 Miles (N.) from Newcastle-Emlyn, containing 386 inhabitants. This parish is situated a short distance to the east of the turnpike road leading from Cardigan to Aberystwith. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed, with that of Brongwyn, to the vicarage of Penbryn in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St. David's. The church, dedicated to St. John, has been recently repaired, and has received two hundred and fifty additional sittings, of which one hundred are free, the Incorporated Society for the building and enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £25 towards defraying the expense. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £ 124.6."
Parish based
sketch map
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hundred
[From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]
Memorial Inscriptions have been produced by Dyfed FHs for Betws Ifan: [Sant Ioan, Beulah, Bryn-gwyn, Watch Tower]
St John, Betws Ifan - photograph on Dyfed FHS BETTWS EVAN, St. John 1828-1830 - 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 for Bettws Evan with Bryngwyn from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
See Notes on Church/Chapel Records page
Parish Register;
Baptisms 1726-1992. Marriages 1726-1813, 1816-1967. Burials 1726-1992 NLW/Cer.RO
Copy manuscripts PR[Extracts] CMB 1792-1832 NLW
Bishops Transcripts;
1678, 1680-1, 1688, 1703, 1799, 1801-3, 1806, 1808-63, 1865-6, 1873-8, 1882-3, 1885-8, 1890-3, 1896-7 NLW
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
I.G.I; Baptisms 1806-61
Nonconformist Chapels; see Chapels database
Cardiganshire Family History Society - Index to deaths and burials in Cardiganshire from non-conformist records is available on fiche. Check details on their site, for this parish includes ; Beulah (Ind., 1862-80).
The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales., byJones, I.G. & Williams, D. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. These statistics for this parish are extracted from this book which in turn got them from the 1851 census itself;
Places, villages, farms etc within Betws Ifan as shown on the online parish map from 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)
Kelly's Directory South Wales 1910
Jones, Francis. Walters of Perthcereint. Ceredigion, journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, Vol VI/2, 1969. This Walters family was closely associated with the parishes of Penbryn and Betws Ifan.
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 very brief entry relating to this parish is on page 212; it is described as a chapel of ease to Penbryn.
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Held at the NLW ;
Here is an extract from The Reports of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of Education in Wales. 1847
[Gareth Hicks: 14 Dec 2012]
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