Welsh St Donats

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

• Thomas Waite, blacksmith
  1914-27: account book
  [Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff CF5 6XB - Reference: 2520]

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

• Parish Church of St. Donat

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

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. Donat, and is in the Benefice of Pendoylan with Welsh St. Donats. 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 ST028763.

Transcription of the Roll of Honour at Cowbridge Chuch for 1914-1918 war.

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

• Welsh St. Donats, St. Donat - Christenings (BT's), 1813-1873

• Geograph
• Flickr

Transcript of name listing for Cowbridge, and neighbouring parishes from Commercial and Trade Directories, for the years:-

The transcription of the section for Welsh St Donats from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Welsh St Donats to another place.

Some of the hamlets, towns and villages within this parish

• Prisk

This diagram shows the position of this parish within the county of Glamorgan - click on this to see a full size diagram of the county

St Donats in the County of Glamorgan - on the People's Collection Wales site

Parish map (Kain/Oliver)

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST032769 (Lat/Lon: 51.482952, -3.395419), Welsh St Donats which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Places, villages, farms etc within Welsh St Donats 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 Glenys Travis)

• Welsh St Donats [124] - Bryn-y-ddafad, Bwlch Gwyn, Cae pant, Caeready, Castell Coch AM, Cattwg-glas, Coed Mynydd Coch, Cwrt-Newydd, Efald-wen, Great Ho, Llwyn du, Maendy-newydd, Maes-hwyaid, Morfa Fawnog, Morfa Ystradowen, Mynydd y Glew, Nant Bytryn, Pen-ffordd-fawr, Pen-y-lan, Prisk, Pwll-y-daren, Pysgodlyn Mawr (Pendoylan), Tair Onen, Ty isaf, Warren Fm, Welsh St Donats, Wern-fach, Wern-fawr, Ysgubor goch.

The Population of Welsh St Donats was as follows, and a more detailed breakdown is available.

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

• Welsh St Donats Civil Parish records                  " ......... comprising tithe plan and apportionment, 1841; assistant overseers rate books, 1918-1926; assistant overseers receipt and payment book, 1911-1927; minutes book of parish meetings, 1904-1953; minutes book of parish council and community council meetings, 1953-1974; rate precepts book, 1947-1974; receipt and payment account book, 1923-1953; receipt and payment book, 1954-1974; correspondence, 1950"