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Reynoldston

Bibliography Cemeteries Church History Church Records Description and Travel Directories

Genealogy Maps Names, Personal Population Public Records Schools

Bibliography

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

Cemeteries

The Glamorgan Family History Society have produced a set of microfiche containing Monumental Inscriptions for the following burial grounds :-

• Parish Church of St. George

Church History

Chapels Database  - a  list of all known non-conformist chapels or other non-Anglican religions in the parish

Reynoldston Church

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. George, is in the Benefice of Port Eynon with Rhosili with Llanddewi with Knelston, and diocese of Swansea and Brecon. 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 SS479900.

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

• Reynoldston Ecclesiastical Parish Records         "Registers (including service and banns registers) 1713-1993; Churchwardens' accounts 1846-1963; electoral roll 1920-1963; miscellaneous 1816-2000."

Description and Travel

Places, villages, farms etc within Reynoldston parish  as shown on the parish map on 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 Mary Greatorex)

• Reynoldstone (30): Fairyhill, Frog Moor, Little Reynoldstone, Reynoldstone, Stout Hall, Ty Bryn.

Descriptions of the parish from
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis and
A Topographical Dictionary of The Dominion of Wales by Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1811.

Reynoldston - on Explore-Gower

Reynoldston  - village site with history section

Directories

Transcript of complete name listing for the Gower parishes, from Slaters Directory for 1880.

Genealogy

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

• Lucas family of Reynoldston papers          1720-1936          "The Lucas family have been living on the Gower peninsula for at least 500 years. They have been traced back to one Jeffrey Lucas who lived probably in Reynoldston parish. The Lucas family have been well documented.............................. The Lucas family lived at Stouthall in the parish of Reynoldston"

Maps

Names, Personal

• Benson family of Reynoldston
  1827-1922: deeds and leases mainly relating to industrial activity
  [West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea - Reference: D/D SB 12]

Population

The Population of Reynoldston was as follows, and a more detailed breakdown is available.

Public Records

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

• Reynoldston Parish and Community Council Records              ".......... including minutes, 1894-1994; photocopy, [late 20th century], of tithe plan, 1838."

Schools

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

• Reynoldston, later Knelston, School, records             "........ log books, 1874-1969."
  ".............was an elementary school in Renoldston, Gower, Glamorgan. It was later renamed Knelston School, with a new school building being built in 1969. ............."

Hamlets, Towns and Villages

• Stouthall

Reynoldston

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