GENUKI: Tregaron chapels

For further details of this project see Cardiganshire Chapels Database

Compiled by Gareth Hicks (April 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. Death and Burial indexes available for purchase from Cardiganshire Family History Society
9. 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 )

Argoed Baptist chapel, Argoed, Tregaron

Argoed Baptist chapel, Argoed SN6783558914 Started 1718, chapel built 1760. Sunday School founded 1810. Not still open 1998 (demolished) (1)
Argoed Baptist chapel Bapts 1751-1857 NLW (3)

Berth Welsh CM chapel, Ty'n-yr-eithin

Berth Welsh CM chapel, Ty'n-yr-eithin SN66336343 Started 1809, chapel built 1840, rebuilt 1877, renewed 1908. Records; List of Temperance Society members 1839-50 NLW Still open 1998 (1) & (4)
Berth CM Erected in 1840 Benjamin Benjamin, Elder, Llwyngwin 1851 (2) (Blaen-Caron township)

Blaen Caron CM chapel

Blaen Caron Welsh CM chapel (2 mls north east of Tregaron) SN70836115 Chapel built 1875/7, renewed 1901. Sunday School founded 1810. Members; 42 in 1902 Still open 1998 (1) & (4)

Hanes Methodistiaeth, rhan ddeheuol Sir Aberteifi : oddechreuad y "Diwvgiad Methodistaidd" yn 1735 hyd 1900 . By John Evans. Dolgellau , 1904. (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church History in the southern part of Cardiganshire from 1735 to 1900) This book contains an entry for each CM chapel in existence in South Cardiganshire at the end of 1900, including this one. It includes a history of preaching in the area before the chapel was built, lists deacons, ministers etc, and contains a wealth of genealogical information.

Bwlchgwynt CM chapel, Tregaron

Bwlchgwynt Welsh CM chapel, Chapel St / Lampeter Rd, Tregaron SN6777759628 Society in 1744, chapel built 1775, enlarged 1809, rebuilt 1833, 1865 Burial ground added in 1840 Members; 360 in 1902 Records; births and bapts 1810-37 PRO & in IGI Still open 1998 (1) & (4)
Bwlchgwynt CM Erected in 1775 "(used exclusively as a place of worship) 'except a day school kept for a short time till a school house be erected' " John Rees, Minister 1851 (2 (Tre-cefel township)
Bwlch-gwynt CM chapel Bapts 1810-37 PRO (3)
Rev Morgan Evans The Calvinistic Methodist chapel here will seat 800 1895 (6)
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

Capel Bwlchgwynt [CM], Tregaron, cofysgrifau (records) 1871-1912 "Adeiladwyd y capel cyntaf ym 1774, a'i alw ar ôl y cae y'i codwyd arno sef 'Llain Bwlch y Gwynt', ym mhlwyf Caron-is-clawdd, Sir Aberteifi. Helaethwyd yr adeilad hwn ym 1809, ond ym 1833 codwyd yr ail gapel ar y safle. Ychwanegwyd oriel at y capel hwn fel rhan o'r gwaith adnewyddu ym 1865.............."
Records ........... comprising Collections Account Books, 1871-1912, and the Secretary's Book, 1898-1902.

Hanes Methodistiaeth, rhan ddeheuol Sir Aberteifi : oddechreuad y "Diwvgiad Methodistaidd" yn 1735 hyd 1900 . By John Evans. Dolgellau , 1904. (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church History in the southern part of Cardiganshire from 1735 to 1900) This book contains an entry for each CM chapel in existence in South Cardiganshire at the end of 1900, including this one. It includes a history of preaching in the area before the chapel was built, lists deacons, ministers etc, and contains a wealth of genealogical information.

Deri-Garon CM Schoolroom, Tregaron

Deri-Garon CM Schoolroom, Tregaron SN66415888 Sunday school founded & chapel built 1820? Not still open 1998 (1)

Gors Neuadd CM chapel

Gors Neuadd CM schoolroom, Blaennant [near Y Rhiw] SN69245803 Sunday school established (& chapel built?) 1854 (1865?). Not still open 1998 (1) & (4)

Tan-y-rallt uchaf CM Meeting, Tregaron

Tan-y-rallt uchaf CM Meeting, Tregaron SN69836035 House converted to chapel. Not still open 1998 (1)

Treflyn Sunday School CM

Treflyn CM schoolroom SN694628 Sunday school formed 1810. Built mid C19th Not still open 1998 (derelict) (1)
Photograph on Dyfed FHS

Wesleyan Methodist chapel, Tregaron

Tregaron Wesleyan Methodist chapel SN6795659583 Started 1808, chapel built 1840, rebuilt 1873. Part of Lampeter circuit from 1808 Records; 1. burials 1830-1944 NLW 2. see under Wesleyan chapel, Lampeter (circuit records) Not still open 1998 (demolished) (1) & (4)
Wesleyan Methodist chapel Erected in 1840 No informant's signature 1851 (2) (Blaen-Caron township)
Wesleyan chapel, Tregaron Bapts 1839-1970; Burials 1830-1944 NLW (3)
Wesleyan chapel, Tregaron 1830-1970: registers of baptisms and deaths (National Archives- previously linked page not now there)
......... the Weseyan chapel affords about 400 sittings 1895 (6)

Y Rhiw CM chapel / schoolroom

Ysgoldy Rhiw-Dywyll CM (2 mls south east of Tregaron) SN69835894 Started 1816, chapel & schoolroom built 1866. Records; see Bwlchgwynt Still open 1998 (1) & (4)

[Gareth Hicks: 15 Oct 2011]