GENUKI: Llanddewi Aber-Arth chapels

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Llanddewi Aber-Arth chapels

For further details of this project see Cardiganshire Chapels Database

Compiled by Gareth Hicks (Feb 2007)

Sources

NB. Not all available data was necessarily used from sources - and sources 1 & 4 have been combined as similar

1. The Chapels Recording Project in Wales (RCAHMW)
2. 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
3. Nonconformist Registers of Wales published by the National Library of Wales in 1994.
4. The Parish Churches and Nonconformist Chapels of Wales: Their Records and where to Find them, Vol. One, Cardigan - Carmarthen - Pembroke, by Rawlins, B.J. (1987).
5. Kelly's Directory, South Wales 1910 - the Archive Cd Books Cd
6. Kelly's Directory, South Wales 1895 - the Archive Cd Books Cd
7. My Ancestors were Congregationalists in England and Wales, by D J H Clifford, SOG, 1992.
8. Independent Chapels of Wales: History Books and Pamphlets by Huw Walters.
9. Death and Burial indexes available for purchase from Cardiganshire Family History Society
10. Online Commercial & Residential Directories as appropriate to a particular parish - apart from what may already be on Genuki, see also the Historical Directories site

Other sources

Dyfed FHS - Photographs of chapels (may also be other data there)
Archives Network Wales

Baptist

Siloam Baptist chapel, North Rd, Aberaeron

Siloam Baptist chapel, North Rd, Aberaeron SN4606963006 Chapel dated 1872, rebuilt 1881/2 Closed 1976. (1)
Welsh Baptist chapel, Aberayron Seats 200 1895 (6)

Photograph on Dyfed FHS (under Aberaeron)

Congregational

Peniel Welsh Ind chapel, Peniel Lane / Water St, Aberaeron

Peniel Welsh Ind chapel, Peniel Lane / Water St, Aberaeron SN4587762808 Started 1810/11, chapel built 1833/4; enlarged 1857 & 1897 Members; 350 in 1873 Early ministry of Dr T Phillips Records; 1. register of members 1816-58 NLW Burials 1813-28, list of members 1811-54 NLW 2. baptismal register of Neuaddlwyd and this chapel 1791-1878 NLW? Still open 1998 (1) & (4)
Peniel Ind Erected in 1833 William Evans, Minister 1851 (2)
Peniel Cong, Aberaeron Bapts 1791-1896 NLW (3)
Peniel Welsh Ind, Aberaeron Opened 1833, still open in 1992 (7)
Welsh Cong chapel, Aberayron Rev William Evans Seats 400 1895 (6) and Rev Thomas Gwilym Evans Seats 800 1910 (5)

Photograph on Dyfed FHS (under Aberaeron)
Plan of Peniel chapel, Aberaeron - on the Gathering the Jewels site

Shown as still open on the Union of Welsh Independents site (Nov 2006)
Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for this chapel (in Welsh )

Methodist

Bethel Welsh CM chapel, Aberarth village

Bethel Welsh CM chapel, Aberarth village SN4788363868 Built 1790, rebuilt 1805 & 1846, renewed 1900. Members; 145 in 1902 Records; 1. births and bapts 1818-36 PRO & in IGI 2. membership rolls 1812-26 NLW Still open 1998 (1) & (4)
Bethel, Aberarth CM Erected before 1800, rebuilt in 1803 Thomas Evans, Minister 1851 (2)
Bethel CM Bapts 1816-36 PRO (3)
Bethel chapel history - on the Aberarth village site

Photograph on Dyfed FHS

Still open in 2006

Tanybryn CM chapel, Tanybryn

Tanybryn CM chapel SN48436147 Started c.1815, chapel built 1864 Schoolroom built 1834. Members; 30 in 1902 Records; see Bethel this parish and Pennant, Llanbadarn Trefeglwys parish Derelict by 1998 (1) & (4)
Tanybryn CM Erected in 1830 John Phillips, Secretary 1851 (2)

Salem Wesleyan Methodist chapel, Aberaeron ?

Salem Wesleyan chapel, Aberaeron Bapts 1839-1973 NLW (3)
Welsh Wesleyan chapel, Aberayron Rev David Morgan Seats 85 1895 (6) and Rev William Thomas Roberts (Lampeter circuit) Seats 85 1910 (5)

Photograph on Dyfed FHS of a Salem Wesleyan chapel built in 1864, under Aberaeron, and the OS grid reference SN459630 given puts it in Llanddewi Aber-Arth parish

But is it the unnamed Wesleyan chapel under Henfynyw also built in 1864 ?

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[Gareth Hicks: 2 April 2008]

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