CARDIFF
"CARDIFF, called by the Welsh CAERDYDD,
a seaport, borough, and market town, having separate jurisdiction,
locally in the hundred of Kibbor, county of GLAMORGAN (of which it is
the shire town), SOUTH WALES, 158 miles (W.) from London, containing
6187 inhabitants.................................." A
Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis 1833 (see
below)
Archives and Libraries
Bibliography
Here is a substantial reading list of books which relate to Glamorgan,
either county or parish.
References to the town of Cardiff at
Business and Commerce Records
References to Business &
Commerce at Cardiff and their location.
Cemeteries
The Glamorgan Family
History Society have produced a set of microfiche containing
Monumental Inscriptions for the following burial grounds :-
- St. John the Baptist
- Adamsdown Cemetery
- Tabernacle Welsh Baptist Church
Census
The Glamorgan Family
History Society have produced a set of microfiche containing
an enumerated transcription and a personal name index. These are
available for the years :
- 1841 - (whole of Cardiff Registration District, includes
Llantrisant and Caerphilly)
- 1851 - HO107/2455
Chronology
A Chronology of Cardiff has been provided by Bob Sanders Part
1 - Pre 1700
Part
2 - 1700 - 1849
Part
3 - 1850 onwards
Church History
City United Reformed Church
on Windsor Place
Chapels Database
- a list of all known non-conformist chapels or
other non-Anglican religions in the parishes of Roath,
St Mary, St John and Llandaff
Church Records
For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office
and/or West Glamorgan Archives
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
for ;
- Ancient Parishes (formed prior to 1832):
- Modern Parishes & Chapels of Ease (formed after
1832)
- St. Andrew/Dewi Sant
- Parish formed in 1884 from Cardiff St. John. Re-dedicated in 1956 to
Eglwys Dewi Sant
- St. Iltyd -
Daughter Church to Cardiff St. Andrew
- St. Teilo -
parish church of St. Andrew and St. Teilo since 1956 but
reunited with it's parent St. John Baptist Cardiff in 2001/2
to form the Rectorial benefice of Central Cardiff
- St. James the
Great, Cardiff
- All Saints
- Parish formed in 1867 from Cardiff St. Mary
- St. Stephen
- Parish formed in 1877 from Cardiff St. Mary
- St. Dyfrig -
Parish formed in 1895 from Cardiff St. Mary
- St. Samson -
Parish formed in 1924 from Cardiff St. Mary and Cardiff St. Paul
- Registers.copies
for a number of religious denominations have been deposited at the
National library, Public Record Office, Glamorgan Record Office
& West Glamorgan Archive Service.
- The following Religious Institutions are covered in the
Mormon International Genealogical Index (IGI) :-
- Cardiff, St. John - Christenings (BT's) - 1813-1875
- Cardiff, St. Mary - Christenings (BT's) - 1813-1877
- Cardiff, Bethany Chapel, St. Mary Street, Baptist -
Births (BT's) - 1804-1837
- Cardiff, St. John Wesleyan - Christenings (BT's),
1818-1837
- Cardiff, St. John Ebenezer Independent - Christenings,
1817-1837
- Cardiff, St. John Ebenezer Wesleyan - Christenings,
1799-1837
Description and Travel
Places, villages, farms etc within the Cardiff
parishes
as shown on the online
parish map
from 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 Gareth Hicks)
- Cardiff St Mary (139); Bute East Dock;
Butetown; Castle; Newtown
- Cardiff St John (140); Cathays; Cathays
Park; Cemy.; Gaol; Newtown; Priory
- Cardiff St Mary- Flat Holm (10) Hosp; Lighthouse Point;
Signal Sta.
Description of the
borough and market town of Cardiff from A
Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.
Also from "Glamorganshire" 1911
Cardiff
Castle on the Castle Wales site
Real
Cardiff - Peter Finch's site
Thisis
Cardiff.net
Anecdotal
Cardiff - an archive of stories collected by Jennie Savage
The
Cardiffians site - A Photographic and Historical archives of
Cardiff
Fletcher, J. Kyrle. Cardiff.
Notes: picturesque and biographical. [Cardiff : Western Mail
Limited. 1917] - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive
site - click on Texts and search on Cardiff
Lee, Brian. Cardiff
Remembered. Chalford, 1997 - " ............ contains the
reminiscences or recollections of a number of Cardiffians, some of whom
have been a long time gone......"
Williams,
Stewart. Cardiff
Yesterday. This is a cumulative index,
compiled by Sue Mackay of all 36 volumes of the 'Cardiff Yesterday'
series, published between 1980 and 2000. Each volume contains just over
200 photographs of Cardiff places and people, making some 7,500
photographs in all. The photographs themselves are not
available online.
Directories
Transcript of name listing for Cardiff, from Commercial and Trade
Directories, for the years:-
Emigration and Immigration
- Cardiff, Italian consulate
1896-1939: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff - Reference: Acc 1997/58]
Genealogy
A
list of some published sources of Genealogy and History for Cardiff and
Glamorgan, has been provided by Bob Sanders
Cardiff and the Vale--Will Transcripts. Based on the
David Jones of Wallington Collection at Cardiff Central Library. David
Jones was an antiquarian of the 19th century who collected a huge
amount of material on Glamorgan (and some other areas). Much of this
collection is at Cardiff Library, with some at the National Library,
Aberystwyth. He transcribed the salient genealogical information from
many Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan wills from Llandaff Probate Registry
and Prerogative Court of Canterbury from 16th to early 19th centuries
and various MIs and PRs too, as well as miscellaneous other things that
took his fancy. Bob Sanders has collected quite a lot of the
genealogical data from the transcripts of Cardiff & Vale Wills.
It is just the index
to the database that is online.
History
John Hobson Matthews' "Cardiff Records" -
volumes 1-5 are online at British
History Online
The
Cardiff Friars - from Cardiff Records, Volume II,
Chapter I NOTES ON THE MANORS OF THE CARDIFF DISTRICT .
(British History Online)
The
Manor of Kibbor and Cardiff - from Cardiff Records,
Volume II, Chapter I NOTES ON THE MANORS OF THE CARDIFF
DISTRICT . (British History Online)
Description, with images, of Cardiff Castle
at www.castlewales.com
by Jeff Thomas
A
brief history of the Development of the Port of Cardiff has
been provided by Bob Sanders
Butetown History
and Arts Centre site
Jewish Records
- Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen: Cardiff
1937-40: correspondents
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
Land and Property
Cardiff, the
building of a capital. A searchable section of the main
Glamorgan Records Office site which holds a series of 40 000 building
regulation plans. The collection includes schools, cinemas, sports
stadia, hotels, public houses, coffee bars, air raid shelters, shops,
workhouses, hospitals, offices, factories, churches, mosques,
synagogues and houses. The plans can be used for the study of many
different subjects.
- Brief
Histories of the Estates of the Gentry in and around Cardiff,
provided by Bob Sanders
- Crichton-Stuart family, Marquesses of Bute: Glamorgan estate
- 15th cent-20th cent: deeds, manorial and estate records
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Bute]
- 1588-20th cent: deeds 17th-19th century, estate
1588-1917, family 1764-1918, legal 18th-20th century [Glamorgan Archive
Service, Cardiff - Reference: D/DA]
- 1748-19th century: deeds 1748-19th century, rentals
etc., 1824,1847,1855, Cardiff Docks acts, plans, legal papers 19th
century, papers relating to lease of Senghennydd common to Dowlais iron
company estate correspondents 19th century
[Durham County Record Office, County Hall, Durham DH1 5UL - Reference:
D/CG6/1834-56]
View maps
covering the area of this parish and places within its
boundaries
Cardifff
in 1910 on the Baedeker Old Guide Books site
Merchant Marine
Details of extant records on Archives
Network Wales for the following;
- Cardiff Crew Agreements and Official Logbooks
1863-1913
"From 1835 onwards under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1835, masters of
any ships belonging to United Kingdom subjects undertaking a foreign
voyage, and masters of any British registered ships of 80 tons or more
employed in the coastal trade or fisheries were required to enter into
an agreement with every member of the crew. The document had to be kept
on board by the master, completed by him and handed to the Registrar
General of Shipping and Seamen at the end of the voyage"
- Cardiff Docks collection 1888-[c.
1970] "Great Western
Railway dry dock stemming diary, 1924-1965; dock register and log,
1948-1967; dockman's notebook, 1939-1952; specification for steel swing
bridge, 1903; dock plans, 1888-1970; photographs of floods in Canton,
Cardiff, 1961; Church Monthly magazine, 1903."
- Cardiff Pilotage Authority; Steam Pilot Boat Co; Bristol
Channel Pilot Association records
1807-1968
- Cardiff Pilotage records
"Pilots' reports inwards, 1870-1871"
- Cardiff Shipping Registers 1824-1994
Master
Mariners in Cardiff Crew Agreements, has been provided by Bob
Sanders
Crew
and passengers on ships Crews & passengers of Cardiff
ships in port on the 1881 census, also includes many other
Welsh and English ports. By Bob Sanders
Cardiff
Shipping Companies by Bob Sanders. Also P &
A Campbell at War
Cardiff
area shipping lost by enemy action during the first &
second World Wars. By Bob Sanders
Ships
wrecked in the Cardiff - Barry area of the Bristol Channel.
By Bob Sanders
The
loss of the Castleton, a Cardiff ship, in 1886. A report by
Steve Brew of Sydney.
Maritime
History. Although not particularly Glamorgan related here are
a large number of links to websites dealing with maritime history. By
Bob Sanders
The Welsh National Memorial
- on the People's Collection Wales
the Jewels site
Names, Personal
- Hopkins family of Bromyard, Herefordshire and Cardiff
18thcent-19th cent: deeds and papers
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Hosgood family of Cardiff and Neath
19th cent-20th cent: papers
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
Newspapers
- Cardiff & Merthyr Guardian Newspaper &
Printing Co, newspaper publishers
1865-70: minute book
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- South Wales Echo, newspaper
records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Western Mail, newspaper
records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Copies of Western Mail and South Wales Echo may be seen at
Cardiff Central Library
Occupations
Indexes of Occupations extracted from Parish Registers,
primarily concerned with individuals in Cardiff and the Vale of
Glamorgan has been provided by Bob Sanders
- Clergy,
Sextons, Churchwardens etc.
Mariners,
Ship's Captains, Seamen, Coastguards, Customs & Excise etc
Channel
and Dock Pilots, Boatmen etc
Medical,
Veterinary etc
Postal
& Road Transport Occupations
Publicans,
Innkeepers, Hoteliers etc
Schoolteachers,
Lecturers etc
Shipwright,
Boilermakers & other Dockyard Workers
Soldiers,
Policemen, Militiamen etc
Officials and Employees
- South Wales Warehouses Ltd, warehouse keepers
records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
Politics and Government
- Cardiff Central Conservative Association
- 1925-39: minutes
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Minor lists 1987 p14]
- 1945-47: papers rel to 1945 election expenses
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Minor lists 1988 p2]
- Cardiff City Labour Party
- 1958-64: minutes
[University of Swansea Library - Reference: SWCC]
- 1964-68: records
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: NLW Facs 588]
- Cardiff East Conservative Association
1945-48: minutes
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Minor lists 1987 p14]
- Cardiff Junior Liberal Association
1886-95: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Cardiff North Conservative Association
1947-75: minutes etc
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Minor lists 1987 p13, 1988 p3, 1989 p10]
- Cardiff North West Conservative Association
1972-83: minutes
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Minor lists 1987 p13]
- Cardiff South Conservative Association
1918-47: minutes
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Minor lists 1987 p14]
- Cardiff South East Conservative Association
1946-77: minutes
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Minor lists 1987 p14, 1988 p2]
- Cardiff South East Labour Party
1961-68: records
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: NLW Facs 588]
- Cardiff West Conservative Association
1948-84: minutes
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Minor lists 1987 p14, 1988 p3]
- City of Cardiff Conservative Association
1978-83: minutes
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: Minor lists 1988 p3]
- National and Local Government Officers Association: South
Glamorgan County Council branch
1973-90: minutes
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Plaid Cymru: Cardiff area
records
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records]
Cardiff
Union Workhouse - on Peter Higginbotham's site
Details of extant records on Archives
Network Wales for the following;
- Cardiff Poor Law Union records 1830-1930
"Including
.... Board of Guardians minutes, including several series of Committee
Minutes, 1836-1930; Register of Officers, 1902-1957; weekly returns of
number of paupers, 1914-1930; letter books (including appointments and
applications letter books), 1868-1930; printed abstracts of accounts
and lists of paupers, 1853-1912; printed abstracts of accounts,
1887-1926; year books, 1893-1930; miscellaneous papers, 1845-1925;
Children's Homes, foster mothers' journals, 1930; Vaccination Committee
minutes, 1890-1930; Rating Assessment Committee minutes, 1862-1927;
rate books for Cogan, Llandough and Penarth parishes, 1880-1902; Rural
Sanitary Authority minutes, 1872-1894, including ledgers, 1873-1894;
letter books, 1872-1894; printed abstracts of accounts, 1878-1894;
printed annual reports of Medical Officer of Health, 1875-1893; reports
of Inspectors of Nuisances, 1873-1894; miscellaneous papers, 1872-1894;
and School Attendance Committee minutes, 1877-1903."
Postal and Shipping Guides
- Cardiff shipping registers
1824-1932: registers
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Chine Shipping Company Limited
1934-69: agreements, ledgers, cash books, journals, salaries books,
voyage records, correspondents etc
[National Maritime Museum, Manuscripts Section, Greenwich, London SE10
9NF - Reference: CNE]
- Cardiff Turnpike Trust
1764-1845: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
Details of extant records on Archives
Network Wales for the following;
- Cardiff Borough Petty Sessions records 1846-1989
- Cardiff Borough Police Force records
1841-1969
- Cardiff Borough records 1340-1974
- Cardiff Borough, Building Regulation plans
1857-1978
- Cardiff Burial Board records 1859-1951
- Cardiff Coroner's records
"Registers of deaths,
1954-1972; records of inquests, 1951-1972"
- Cardiff Corporation Waterworks, records 1859-1888
- Cardiff Incorporated Chamber of Commerce records [c.
1860]-1970
- Cardiff Local Board of Health 1850-1879
Including
".............register
of hackney carriages and drivers, 1860-1866..........."
- Cardiff Royal Infirmary records
1822-1988
" ..... including
minute books, 1822-1944; annual reports, 1837-1970; nursing records,
1904-1964; photographs, c1890-1969; miscellaneous
records, 1898-1988; records relating to the Cardiff City Mental
Hospital including annual reports, 1944-1947; newspaper cuttings,
1914-1951"
- Cardiff Rural District Council records
1862-1974
- Early Cardiff Transport
"Early agreements connected
with transport, 1865-1928; The South Wales Property, Machinery and
Carriage Co. Ltd., Andrews' Carriage and Tramways Co. Ltd, 1891-1903;
Cardiff Buses, The Provisional Tramways Co. Ltd., 1881-1930; Cardiff
Bus photographs, 1882-1890; Plymouth [co. Devon], Portsmouth [co.
Hants]; 1885-1887; sale to Provisional Tramways Co., 1888; Cardiff
District and Penarth Harbour Tramway, 1881-1888; Patents, sale of
patent rights, 1882-1923; Cardiff Tramways Co., proposed tramway to
Penarth, [c. 1880s]; Cardiff City Transport
Department, 1902-1971; and miscellaneous photographs, timetables, bus
and tram tickets, 1876-1885."
- Gaols
1829-1878 "The
County Gaol belonged to the Crown, and was the responsibility of the
sheriff, although it was run and financed by the Quarter Sessions. From
medieval times until after the Act of Union 1536,
the Black Tower of Cardiff Castle, Glamorgan, housed prisoners. In the
17th century, the county gaol was established in High Street, Cardiff.
From about 1770, improvements to conditions in the gaol were carried
out. By 1814, the gaol was deemed insufficient and a new gaol was built
in 1832-1833, in the Spital Field, Whitmore Lane (later called Custom
House Street) .................. After the Prisons Act 1877,
responsibility for the Gaol and House of Correction was transferred to
the Home Office."
- Market Records (Borough of Cardiff)
"Cardiff
Central Market (Glamorgan) opened on 8 May 1891"
"1891-1969: market registers
(giving names of stall holders, addresses and weekly rents paid); rent
books; wages books; ledgers; fish market ledgers; complaints' books;
and minutes and reports of the Civic Buildings and Markets Committee"
- Report on Licenced Alehouses and Beerhouses in Cardiff
1903
"This booklet was given to the depositor
by the landlord of a public house in Cardiff............The report
gives a summary of information on the number of pubs in seven named
police districts, and details of individual pubs including location,
date of earliest recordedmetion of the establishment, and the numbers
of cellars, smoke rooms, public rooms, bedrooms, and horses held by the
establishment"
Religion and Religious Life
- Cardiff and District Evangelical Free Church Council
1896-1925: minute books, cash book, letter book, roll of delegates
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records]
- Cardiff Baptist Ministers Fraternal
1894-1941: records
[Cardiff Central Library]
- Cardiff Baptist Union
1919-1970: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service - Reference: D/D Bap 48]
- Cardiff Nonconformist Ministerial Union
1867-94: minute books
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records]
Schools
Details of extant records on Archives
Network Wales for the following;
- Cardiff High School for Boys sports photographs
"........ comprising of photographs of
football teams, 1914; and cricket teams, c1916"
- Cardiff School Board records 1875-1926
- City of Cardiff High School for Boys records
"The school was opened in September 1898
in Newport Road........"
"
..........comprising of admissions registers, 1905-1981, register of
entrants, 1932-1942; minute book, 1931-1953; petty cash book,
1911-1955; pupils' record cards (alphabetical), c1953-1965"
- City of Cardiff High School for Girls records
"
........ opened in January 1895 in the Parade, Cardiff ......."
"
......... comprising of registers of pupils, 1899-1931; registers of
admissions, 1894-1924; registers of new entrants, 1932-1954; address
book of pupils, c1895-1920; pupils' record cards,
1926-1968; Library publications, 1708-1722"
- Various schools around the area of Cardiff
"Transcripts
of school log-books including transcripts for Gladstone Infants,
1900-1995; Gladstone Boys, 1900-1950; Gladstone Juniors, 1950-1985;
Marlborough Infants, 1900-1985; Marlborough Juniors, 1951-1994; St
Monicas Infants, 1894-1956; St Monicas Mixed, 1894-1955; Roath Park Boys, 1895-1951;
Roath Park
Girls, 1895-1951; Roath
Park Infants, 1895-1977; Roath
Park Secondary Modern, Roath
park Juniors, 1951-1979"
Cardiff
University
Oxford
graduates of the 16th - 18th centuries (plus a few later) who
had connections with Cardiff or the Vale of Glamorgan .
Many were born in the Cardiff/Vale area, some were born elsewhere but
came to live in the area. A large proportion were clergymen, quite a
few barristers and a few others. An index by Bob Sanders
Social Life and Customs
- British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Cardiff 1958
1957-1958: rowing committee papers
[Gwynedd, Caernarfon Area Record Office, Victoria Dock, Caernarfon -
Reference: XM 6210]
- Cardiff Blue Ribbon Choir
1893-1932: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Cardiff Chess Club
1900-84: minutes, correspondents, etc
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Unemployment Assistance Board Sports and Social Club
Cardiff District
1935-45: agenda and minutes of various club committee meetings,
personal and circular correspondence, annual reports and financial
accounts, programmes of social and athletic events, items relating to
1st and 2nd Eisteddfodau of UAB (Wales) held in Cardiff 1938, 1939
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records -
Reference: A1986/135]
Cardiff
Rugby Football Club
Societies
- Cardiff and County Hospital Society
1912-42: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Cardiff and District Hospital Society
1943-48: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Cardiff Medical Society
1870-1972: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Cardiff Municipal Golfing Society
1930-1982: minutes and correspondents
[Glamorgan Archive Service - Reference: D/D Go/C]
- Cardiff Naturalists Society
- c1867-1984: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- 1986-88: archaeological section minutes and
correspondents
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- Cardiff Poor Cripples Aid Society
1908-1949: minute books
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff - Reference: D/D PC]
- Cardiff Sympathetic Society
1812-46: accounts, lists of members, correspondents
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
- South Wales and Monmouthshire Society of Chartered
Accountants
1971-82: records
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
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