GENUKI: Abercwmboi in the Parish of Aberdare

Occupations

Non Conformist Registers Deposited
Chapel	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials	OS Map Ref	Deposited/ Copies
Cap Coch, Wesleyan	1857-1933	-	-	SO 02250008	NLW
Cap Coch, Wesleyan* *not on WGAS online list	1966-1968	-	-	SO 02250008	WGAS
Cap Coch, Wesleyan	-	1964-1969, 1972-1986	-	SO 02250008	GRO

WGAS - West Glamorgan Archive Service
NLW - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
GRO - Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff

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

Abercwmboi Ecclesiastical Parish records "Abercwmboi parish, formerly known as Cap Coch was a conventional district of Aberaman. The Church, dedicated to St. Peter, was closed in 1974" "........ records including registers of baptisms, 1920-1976; marriages, 1924-1974; confirmations, 1960-1974; services, 1931-1964; miscellaneous records, 1933-1969........."

Abercwmboi photographs - on Aberdare online

Abercwmboi Colliery on the Welsh Coal Mines site

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

Phurnacite Project 1981 "The Phurnacite Project was a study of the Phurnacite plant at Abercwmboi in the Cynon Valley and its economic and environmental impact. It is made up of a number of interviews of union officials at the plant, workers at the plant and those working at collieries that supplied the plant. A documentary was compiled from the interviews and some additional footage. Some funding was received from the Welsh Arts Council."

[Last Updated : 15 Dec 2006 - Gareth Hicks]