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hundred"HÊNLLAN-AMGOED (HÊN-LLAN-AMGOED) a parish, in the union of NARBERTH, lower division of the hundred of DERLLYS, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 7 miles (W.N.W.) from St. Clear's, on the old road from Llanboidy to Narberth; containing, with the chapelry of Eglwys Vair a Chyrig, which supports its own poor, 438 inhabitants, of whom 150 are in the township. This parish, which is situated on the river Tâf, is more than three miles in length, and two in breadth, and is for the most part inclosed and cultivated. The living is a discharged rectory . . . There is a place of worship for Presbyterians. About 40 children of both sexes are instructed in a day school at the expense of their parents, and about 30 gratuitously at a Sunday school . . . The Rev. Nathaniel Rowlands, son of the celebrated Daniel Rowlands, of Llangeitho, was buried at this place; he was chaplain to the Duke of Gordon, and to Lady Huntingdon, and was one of the most popular preachers of his time." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).]
Aerial photograph of St Canna's Church, Henllan Amgoed, 1992 - on the Gathering the Jewels site
Some 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 Henllan Amgoed and Llangan from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by (Archive CD Books)).
Griffiths, G. Milwyn. A Visitation of the Archdeaconry of Carmarthen, 1710 National Library of Wales journal. 1974, Summer Vol XVIII/3. Includes the parish of Henllan Amgoed
Owen, Jeremy. Golwg ar y beiau y sydd yn yr hanes a brintiwyd ynghylch pedair neu bum mlynedd i nawr, ym mherthynas i'r rhwygiad a wnaethpwyd yn eglwys Henllan yn y blynyddoedd 1707, 1708, 1709, (Caerfyrddin, 1732-1733), xi, 87p. Hefyd: Golwg ar y beiau gan Jeremy Owen (1732-3), golygwyd gan R.T. Jenkins, (Caerdydd, 1950), 99p.
Tri chanmlwyddiant Eglwys Annibynnol Henllan: 1697-1997, Henllan, Eglwys Annibynnol Henllan Amgoed (1997) 39 p. ill, ports.
Dyfed FHS have photographs and data relating to various churches and chapels on their site
PR CMB prior to 1812 were reported in 1831 to be 'completely decayed' by dampness, whereas the imprecise return of 1933 suggests there were then extant records beginning in 1787 now apparently lost. Diocesan records suggest that c1790 the registers went back to 1754.
Parish registers: Marriages (1826-1969) are at the Carmarthenshire Record Office.
Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1671-2, 1675, 1678-84, 1686-7, 1693, 1695, 1697-9, 1702-3, 1707-8, 1713, 1716-18, 1720-2, 1724-30, 1732-59, 1762-3, 1768-70, 1772-7, 1780-1800, 1802-16, 1818-21, 1824-5, 1827-33, 1835-9, 1846-7, 1849, 1855, 1864, 1866-7) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by the LDS.
Marriage index for this parish - see Dyfed Marriages, 1813-1837, Vol. 14 - Derllys Hundred (Dyfed Family History Society, c1989).
Nonconformist Chapels:
Places, villages, farms etc within Henllan Amgoed 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 Katherine Hocking)
Lloyd, Sir John E., (Ed.). A History of Carmarthenshire (2 vols.), Cardiff, London Carmarthenshire Society (1935, 1939). Extracts from this book can be accessed on some parish pages, see here for this parish
[Gareth Hicks : 3 April 2008]
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