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"BLAENPORTH (BLAEN-PORTH), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 5 miles (E. by N.) from Cardigan, on the road to Aberystwith, containing 695 inhabitants. The lands in this parish are nearly all enclosed, and in a good state of cultivation. The living, formerly a prebend in the college of St. David's at Llandewy-Brevi, and rated as such in the king's books at £6, is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St. David's, endowed with £ 800 royal bounty, and £ 800 parliamentary grant, and in the alternate patronage of the Earl of Lisburne and J. V. Lloyd, Esq., who are impropriators of the tithes of the parish, and pay £8 per annum to the curate..............."
Parish based
sketch map
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[From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]
The Memorial Inscriptions index has been produced by Dyfed FHS for Blaen-porth:[ Dewi Sant, Bryn Mair, Bryn Seion. Mwnt: Blaen-cefn.]
St David's Church - photograph on Dyfed FHS
BLAENPORTH, St. David 1829-1830 - on the Church plans online siteSome 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 Blaenporth with Tremaen from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
See Notes on Church/Chapel Records page
Parish Register;
Baptisms 1716-1992. Marriages 1716-53,1767-1837. Burials 1716-1991 NLW/Cer.RO
Copy typescripts PR CB 1716-1812, M 1716-53 NLW
Bishops Transcripts;
1674-6, 1678, 1680-9, 1700, 1702, 1704-5?, 1802-60, 1862, 1865-6 NLW
I.G.I; Baptisms 1802-66
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 ; Brynmair (Ind., 1861-81).
Places, villages, farms etc within Blaen-porth 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 Blaen-porth from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.
Kelly's Directory South Wales 1910
Blaenporth Castle - on the Gatehouse site
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 pages 204/5; the last 2 incumbents of the church were the Rev Mr John Thomas and the Rev Mr John Williams. Mentions Tyllwyd , the seat of John Vaughan Esq.
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Held at the NLW ;
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Here is an extract from The Reports of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of Education in Wales. 1847
[Gareth Hicks: 22 Feb 2007]
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