GENUKI: Abercynon in the Parish of Llanwonno

The town of Abercynon contains two Anglican churches :-

Non Conformist Registers Deposited
Chapel	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials	OS Map Ref	Deposited
Calfaria, Baptist	-	1955-1982	-	ST 08429506	GRO
Moriah, Baptist	-	1961-1987	-	ST 08069509	GRO
Carmel, Wesleyan	1925-1968	-	-	ST 07999483	NLW
Carmel, Wesleyan	1966-1968	-	-	ST 07999483	WGRO

GRO - Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff
NLW - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
WGRO - West Glamorgan Record Office, Swansea

Abercynon on the Aberdare online site

Abercynon - on Wikipedia

Transcript of name listing for Pontypridd, and district, from Commercial and Trade Directories, for the years:-

1880	(Slaters Directory)

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

George Ewart Evans Papers "George Ewart Evans was born in 1909, in the mining town of Abercynon, South Wales, the son of a grocer, William Evans, and his second wife, Janet. He attended Mountain Ash County School from 1921 to 1927, and University College, Cardiff, between 1927 and 1931, obtaining an honours degree in Classics and a teaching certificate.............................."

The Gathering the Jewels site has material for this area, use the onsite search box

Abercynon Colliery on the Welsh Coal Mines site

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

Abercynon Lodge [SWMF] "Minute books 1939-1965; Correspondence 1938-40; Price lists 1918 & 1929; Handbills and circulars 1939-1944; Ministry of Labour certificate 1940"
and "Minute books 1934-1958; Financial records 1919-1943; Correspondence 1919-1947; Agreements 1916-1931; Price Lists 1918-1923; Conciliation and compensation papers 1906-1947; Circulars and publications 1921-1947"
and "Minute Books, 1965-1985"

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

Abercynon Higher Standard/Central secondary school records "..... comprising log books, 1911-1945"
"... Built in 1875 and enlarged in 1896. It was controlled by Mountain Ash Urban District Council Eductaion Committee. Abercynon Higher Standard/Central secondary school became the lower school of Mountain Ash Comprehensive school in September 1988 and the pupils were transferred to the lower school site at Brynlogwg, Miskin, at Mountain Ash"

Abercynon Welfare Bowling Club
1924-31: minutes
[University of Swansea Library - Reference: SWCC]

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

H W Currie papers "Minutes of Abercynon Welfare Bowling Club May-July 1924; minutes of Left Book Club, Abercynon branch August-October 1938; Ynysybwl Co-operative Society material 1935-1950; membership and contribution cards (British Legion; Abercynon Lodge; St. John's Ambulance Service; Abercynon Welfare Hall and Institute; Abercynon Unemployed Association; Abercynon and District Nursing Association) 1936-1948; press cuttings books including rough notes 1927-1944; personal diary 1938; .............................................."

Abercynon in the Parish of Llanwonno

[Last Updated : 14 Oct 2007 - Gareth Hicks]