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Monknash

"MONK NASH, or, GREAT NASH, in the Cwmwd of Maenor Glynn Ogwr, Cantref of Cron Nedd (now called the Hundred of Ogmore), County of GLAMORGAN, South Wales: a Curacy, not in charge, of the certified value of £15: Patron, The Hon. William Booth Grey, in right of his 'Wife Miss Price, an Heiress. The Resident Population of this Parish, in 1801, (including the Hamlet of Broughton) was 101. The Money raised by the Parish Rates, in 1803, was £46..10..0, at 7s 3d. in the pound. It is 6 1/2 m. S.W. from Cowbridge. This Parish contains 1250 acres of Land, all inclosed and cultivated: and is bounded by the Bristol Channel. According to the Diocesan Report, in 1809, the yearly value of this Benefice, arising From Composition for Tythes, and Augmentation, was £48. "
From: A Topographical Dictionary of The Dominion of Wales by Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1811.

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Bibliography

Here is a substantial reading list of books which relate to Glamorgan, either county or parish.

Cemeteries

• Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene

Church History

Glamorgan Chapels Database  - no non-conformist chapels found in this parish

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

The church is dedicated to St. Mary, and is in the Benefice of Llantwit Major. 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 SS919707.

A transcription of the registers is available from the Glamorgan Family History Society for the years: Baptisms, 1721-1987, Marriages, 1721-1837, Burials, 1721-1987.

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

• Ecclesiastical Parish records                 "........... including registers of marriages, 1754-1987; baptisms, 1813-1987; burials, 1813-1987; services, 1925-1961"

The following Religious Institutions are covered in the Mormon International Genealogical Index (IGI) :-

• Monknash, St. Mary - Christenings (BT's), 1812-1873

Description and Travel

"MONKNASH (MONK-NASH), a parish in the hundred of OGMORE, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES, 7 miles (W. S. W.) from Cowbridge, containing 121 inhabitants. This manor, together with the castle and lordship of Neath, was given by FitzHamon to Sir Richard de Grenville, and by him conferred on the monks of Neath abbey, from which circumstance it has derived the prefix to its name. The parish is situated on the shore of the Bristol channel the coast is extremely dangerous for some miles between it and Barry. The Nash sands are a perilous ridge, covered at high water, but exposed at low water, on which the Frolic steam vessel from Tenby to Bristol, laden with passengers, struck, in the month of March, 1831, the weather being exceedingly tempestuous and hazy, when all on board perished : recently two lighthouses have been erected near them, which serve to warn navigators of the danger, as they stretch several miles westward from the coast, and the sounding immediately contiguous is four fathoms. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Llandaf, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Hon. William Booth Grey. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £36. 11."( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis 1833)

Places, villages, farms etc within Monknash 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)

• Monknash (162); Blaen-y-cwm; Camp; Church (site of); Clawdd y Mynach; Craig Beiri; Cwm Bach; Cwm Nash; Monastery (remains of); Monknash (village); Monkton East; Monkton Ganol; Old Windmill; Pen-y-cae; Traeth Mawr; Ty'n-y-caeau.

Monknash Walk  - on the Glamorgan Walks site

Old Forge, Monknash (watercolour by Peter Cronin) - on the Glamorgan Walks site

Directories

Genealogy

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

• Bruce family of Monknash records  1728-1972        "John Bruce Knight of Dyffryn, Aberdare (afterwards John Bruce Pryce) inherited the Monknash estate in 1837 under the will of his distant cousin Mrs Booth Grey of Dyffryn, St Nicholas. By the early twentieth century, the estate consisted of over 1,400 acres in the parishes of Monknash, Marcross and Llandow; and also a Western or Neath estate in Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Michaelston Higher, Pontrhydyfen and Rhos, Pontardawe (which included mineral rights). The main family house was Blaen-y-cwm in Monknash"

Maps

Population

Public Records

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

• Monknash Civil Parish records        " .......... comprising copy of tithe plan and apportionment, c. 1840, [copied 1980]."

Hamlets, Towns and Villages

• Broughton (Now in the Parish of Wick)

Monknash

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