Aberdare Contents Nearby Places

Hirwaun in the Parishes of Aberdare and Penderyn (Breconshire)

Archives and Libraries

• Hirwaun Library
  High Street
  Hirwaun
  CF44 9SW

Bibliography

References to the town of Hirwaun at

• The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Church Records

Parish formed in 1886 from Aberdare and Penderyn (Breconshire)

The church is dedicated to St. Lleurwg, is in the Benefice of Hirwaun, and Diocese of Llandaff. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be found at grid reference SN958056.

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

• Hirwaun Ecclesiastical Parish records  "Hirwaun is a modern parish within the rural deanery of Aberdare in the diocese of Llandaff. St. Lleurwg's church, Hirwaun, was first erected in 1858 as a chapel of ease to Aberdare and was restored in 1884. The ecclesiastical parish of Hirwaun was created in 1886 from the civil parishes of Aberdare in Glamorgan and Penderyn in the county of Brecon"
  "Hirwaun Ecclesiastical Parish records including registers of baptisms, 1858-1944; marriages, 1884-1941; banns, 1899-1960; services, 1877-1919; marriages licences, 1919-1957; certificates, 1940-1957; terriers, 1910-1919; churchwardens accounts, 1897-1911; miscellaneous, 1858-1921; church affairs, 1886-1942; church organisations, c1905-1930"

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

Description and Travel

Photographs of Hirwaun - on  Aberdare online

Hirwaun - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail site

Hirwaun - on Wikipedia

Aerial photograph of Bryn Du Gas Works, Hirwaun, 1992 - on the Gathering the Jewels site

Occupations

Tower Colliery, Hirwaun on the Miners' Advice site

Tower Colliery, Hirwaun on the Welsh Coal Mines site  -  and on the BBC Wales site

Social Life and Customs

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

• Bodwigiad Club Records (Cambrian Lodge of the Old Unity of Oddfellows, Hirwaun)  1875-1973    "The Bodwigiad Club (or Bod Club for short) was a name used for the Cambrian Lodge of the Old Unity of Oddfellows whose meetings were originally held at the Bodwigiad Arms, Hirwaun. The Lodge was founded in 1828..................... The objectives of the society as stated in the Rules of 1937 were to raise funds through a variety of means in order to secure money to pay funeral expenses of deceased members and their wives and also to give assistance to sick members unable to work"

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