GENUKI: Llangynfelyn chapels

For further details of this project see Cardiganshire Chapels Database

Compiled by Gareth Hicks (March 2007)

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

Dyfed FHS - Photographs of chapels (may also be other data there)
Archives Network Wales
Lewis 1833 on Genuki (Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833 )

There was no Independent chapel in this parish but on the Llancynfelin site are baptism entries for Llancynfelin people baptised in 1811-21 by Azariah Shadrach who was the minister at Bethel Ind chapel, Talybont and Capel Seion, Aberystwyth

Rehoboth Welsh CM chapel, Tre Taliesin

Rehoboth Welsh CM chapel, Tre Taliesin SN65769143 Started c1773, school built 1791, chapel (re)built 1833, 1899. Members; 300 in 1850 Records; 1. births & bapts 1821-36 PRO & in IGI 2. Register of bapts 1812-85 NLW 3. register of members 1845-1929 NLW 4. register of members 1858, 1871, 1874 NLW 5. Sunday school register 1897-1914 NLW Still open 1998 (1) & (4)
Rehaboth CM Erected in 1833 Thomas Davies, Elder, Taliesin 1851 (2)
Rehoboth CM Tre Taliesin Bapts 1812-36 PRO Bapts 1812-85 NLW (3)
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
On the Llancynfelin site for this chapel are;
Baptisms 1812-1850 (inc. ministers' names)
List of members 1859
Annual Report and list of members 1949
Pew Rent accounts (with names) - a few sample years between 1894 and 1975

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 ; Rehoboth (Cal.Meth., 1877-79, 1943, 1947, 1953).

Soar Wesleyan Methodist chapel, Tre'r-ddol

Soar Wesleyan Methodist chapel, Tre'r-ddol SN65959215 Cause started 1804 First chapel built 1809 with burial ground, rebuilt 1845 , enlarged 1864, rebuilt 1877 Records; see Aberystwyth circuit records under Soar, Aberystwyth Still open 1998 (1) & (4)
Soar WM Erected in 1806, rebuilt in 1845 Thomas Jones, Class Leader, Post Office, Taliesin 1851 (2)
Soar/ Hen Gapel Wesleyan, Tre'r-ddol Bapts 1835-1964 NLW (3)
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
No graveyard
Rev Edward Jones, Wesleyan minister, Wesley Villa, Trerddol 1910 (5)
On the Llancynfelin site for this chapel are;
Sunday school Some years between 1842-56 - List of teachers and statistics
Members of classes 1871
Trustees 1895
Aberystwyth Wesleyan circuit. Baptisms for Llancynfelin 1815-37
Articles from " Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd" (The Wesleyan Treasury) which relate to this parish
On the Llancynfelin site is also a photograph of Hen Gapel, the original Wesleyan chapel before the new one was built in 1845
The MIs for this chapel are transcribed here and cover the period 1845-1900 (21 of them)

[Gareth Hicks: 16 Oct 2011]