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"EGLWYS - NEWYDD, or LLANVIHANGELY CREIDDYN-UCHÂV, a chapelry in the parish of LLANVIHANGELY CREIDDYN, hundred of ILAR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES,14 miles (S. E.) from Aberystwith, containing 1027 inhabitants. This place derives the latter of these names from its relative situation in the parish, and the former from the erection of a church, in 1803, by the late Thomas Johnes, Esq., on the site of a former edifice originally built here in 1620 by the Herberts of Havôd, for the convenience of the family, and the accommodation of the miners employed in the adjoining district of Cwm Ystwith. Havôd the seat of the late Mr. Johnes, was originally the residence of a branch of the Herbert family, who, embarking in the mining adventures of the neighbourhood, built a house here, which, from the nature of the ground and the badness of the roads, being inaccessible except during the summer, obtained the appellation of " Havôd " signifying a summer residence.........."
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[From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]
For Thomas Johnes, read the entry in The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940. London 1959Inglis-Jones, Elizabeth. Peacocks in Paradise. Faber & Faber , 1960.The classic account of the life of Thomas Johnes and the buildings of his estate at Hafod. Reprinted by Gomer, Llandysul in 2001/2. (0 8683 672 0), 254 pp, paper back. Gomer site intro; "This is a classic biography of an eighteenth-century house and of the man who tamed the wild hills of west Wales to create a Romantic idyll there. 'We live,' said Thomas Johnes of Hafod, 'like peacocks in paradise.'....... His rebuilding of the original mansion at the estate included an extension by the celebrated architect John Nash, schemes for road-making and tree-planting on a grand scale, the running of a printing press and the acquisition of a library collection and innumerable exquisite furnishings. All this, along with his extravagant entertainment of his many visiters - and his guest lists boasted hordes of celebrated thinkers, writers and artists of the period, including Turner himself - led to inevitable financial ruin. .......Johnes's trees still stand in the heavily wooded, craggy Ystwyth Valley, but Hafod itself is no more. It was demolished in 1950, the year in which Peacocks in Paradise was first published........."
Originally a chapelry in Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn parish.
The obsolete parish name is Hafod.
See under Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn parish for 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.
Parish entry from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
See Notes on Church & Chapel Records
Parish Register;
Baptisms 1773-1991. Marriages 1774-89, 1803-1970 [Banns 1823-61]. Burials 1773-1992 NLW/Cer.RO
Bishops Transcripts;
1811-61, 1863-79, 1882, 1885, 1887-8 NLW
I.G.I; Baptisms 1823-75
Nonconformist Chapels; See Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn parish
Index to Burials from Parish Registers 1813-1837 available for purchase from Cardiganshire Family History Society
Volume 2: Ilar (Upper) Hundred . Parishes covered:
Eglwys Newydd, Gwnnws, Llanafan, Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, Llanilar, Lledrod, Rhostïe, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ystrad Meurig
Description of the parish of Eglwys Newydd from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.
Kelly's Directory South Wales 1895 entry for Eglwys Newydd (or Llanfihangel y Creuddyn Upper)
See Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn parish (under Upper Llanfihangel-y-creuddyn) for place name extracts from 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.).
Held at Ceredigion Archives;
The book Mynegai i Ceredigion [Index to Ceredigion] 1-X, edited by Howells,W.H. 1990, has numerous references to Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, to Thomas Johnes and to Hafod Uchtryd.
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 section relating to this chapel of ease is on pages 287/98; the last 4 incumbents of the church were David Evans, 1760 William Hughes, 1780 David Williams of Caron, 1797 Lewis Evans of Tyn-rhelig. Section on Havod, with pedigree of Thomas Johnes Esq.
Held at the NLW ;
Held at Ceredigion Archives;
Guide to the Dept. of Manuscripts and records, NLW, 1994.The main reference to the parish of Eglwys Newydd is under Abertrinant, with deeds 1716-1807, mainly in the parish of Llanfihangel -y-Creuddyn.
Cumberland, George. ; Macve, Jennifer. ; Sclater, Andrew. An attempt to describe Hafod Ymddiriedolaeth Yr Hafod, Hafod Trust, Bicentenary ed. 1996 1796. Facsimile of ed. originally published: 1796. - Repr. with new introduction and notes.
Inglis-Jones, Elisabeth. Hafod of Thomas Johnes. Wales, 1946
Linnard, W. Thomas Johnes of Hafod, Pioneer of Upland Afforrestation in Wales. Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, Vol VI, No 3, 1970.
Davies, Dan / Hughes, William. Atgofion Dau Grefftwr. Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion, 1963. Welsh text. Reminiscences of two craftsmen--A Rhydlewis tailor and a carpenter from Hafod. One of a series of 8 Cardiganshire reminiscences.
Johnes, Thomas, 1748-1816.Edited by Moore-Colyer, Richard J. A land of pure delight : selections from the letters of Thomas Johnes of Hafod, Cardiganshire,1748-1816 . Gomer, Llandysul, Dyfed : Gomer,1992. (Gomer Catalogue 2002, 0 86383 751 4)
This page has been partly compiled from material previously published in their journal
by kind permission of Cardiganshire Family History Society
[Gareth Hicks: 22 June 2006]
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