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Welsh St Donats

"DONATT'S (WELSH ST.), a parish in the hundred of COWBRIDGE, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Cowbridge, containing 304 inhabitants. This place was formerly annexed to the parish of Llanblethian, from which it has been separated, and is now a parish of itself. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Llanblethian, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Llandaf. The church possesses no claim to architectural notice. Miss Leysons, about the year 1774, bequeathed a rentcharge of £5 for distribution among the poor of this parish. Caercady, the property of John Thomas Jones, Esq. R. N., is a genteel mansion, built by the late Colonel Jenkins, one of the auditors of the public accounts, from whom it came by marriage to its present proprietor. The average annual expenditure for the snpport of the poor is £ 127." ( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis 1833)

Bibliography Business and Commerce Records Cemeteries Church History Church Records

Description and Travel Directories Maps Population Public Records

Bibliography

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

Business and Commerce Records

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

Cemeteries

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

• Parish Church of St. Donat

Church History

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

Church Records

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.

Anglican Parish Registers Held at the Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff
Baptisms	Marriages	Burials	Banns	Bishops Transcripts
1726-1736, 1758-1981	1726-1747, 1757-1970	1726-1982	1824-1982	1724-1751, 1753, 1755-1769, 1771-1789, 1791-1802, 1804-1837

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

Description and Travel

Places, villages, farms etc within Welsh St Donats 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 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.

Welsh St Donats - on the Bakerlite site

Directories

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

1858-1859

(Slaters Directory)

1880

(Slaters Directory)

Maps

Population

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

Public Records

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"

Hamlets, Towns and Villages

• Prisk

Welsh St Donats

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