Llanwonno Contents Nearby Places

Porth in the Parish of Llanwonno

Archives and Libraries

• Porth Library
  Pontypridd Road
  Porth
  CF39 9PG
  

Church Records

The church is dedicated to St. Paul, is in the Benefice of Porth St. Paul with Trealaw, and the diocese of Llandaff. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference ST026916.

Description and Travel

Images of the Rhondda Valley site

Directories

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

Occupations

Workmen at Tymawr Colliery winding engine house, near Porth - on the Gathering the Jewels site (use search box)

• Coedcae  Colliery (near Porth) on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Cymmer Colliery, Porth  on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Lewis Merthyr Colliery (near Porth) on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• TyMawr Colliery (near Porth) on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Tynewydd Colliery (near Porth) on the Welsh Coal Mines site

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

• Cymmer Colliery        "Pay ticket 1911; Circulars c.1937"
  "Cymmer Colliery is situated in Porth in the Lower Rhondda Valley. The mineral rights for the colliery was leased by George Insole and his son, James in September 1844. The same year they opened the South Cymmer Level to the No. 2 Rhondda Seam. This was followed by a the No. 1 (Old Pit) shaft in 1847. During the 1850s, Insole sank two further pits on Cymmer land; these were the Upper Cymmer Pit (1851) and the New Cymmer Pit (1855). In 1856, the Cymmer Colliery was the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Wales when 114 miners were killed.
  Insole and Son became a registered company in 1869. The Colliery remained an independant concern under the same family ownership until closure in 1940.
  Source: Ray Lawrence, The South Wales Coalfield Directory, Vol. 2 (1998 edn), p. 181"

 Schools

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

• Rhondda County Intermediate/Grammar schools, Porth records    " ......... comprising of admission registers, 1904-1915; sales account book, 1897-1915; scholarships and bursaries account book, 1899-1937; Rhondda County Boys school records, 1915-1958; Rhondda County Girls school records, 1915-1960; Porth County schools governors minutes, 1929-1951; Owen Vernon Jones, Porth County: The School and its Boys , (1991"

Porth in the Parish of Llanwonno

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