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GWYDDELWERN

"GWYDDELWERN, a parish in the hundred of Edernion, county Merioneth, 2 miles N. of Corwen. The parish, which is of large extent, is situated on a branch of the river Alwen. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph, value £138, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. Bruno. The charities produce about £30 per annum, including the endowment of Roberts's school." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Bibliography

An Elizabethan broadside in the Welsh language, being a brief granted in 1591 to Sion Salisburi of Gwyddelwern, Merionethshire . [Oxford] : [Richard Ellis], 1904. 4p

Survey of several estates in the parishes of Gwyddelwern, Llangar and Llanfor in the county of Merioneth also tenement in the parish of Llanfihangel in the county of Denbigh: Adjoining landowners named on plans. Colour denotes land use.Terrier details acreages, field names, and tenants.By an unidentified surveyor; the same as Vol. 76 (Pale Estate). 1801

Census

Church History

This church was in Merioneth until 1974, Clwyd until 1996 and  now in Denbighshire.

Clwyd FHS site - photograph of St Beuno Church, Gwyddelwern

Denbighshire Churches Survey site - Church of St Bueno, Gwyddelwern

Early British Kingdoms site - St Beuno Gasulsych (died AD 640)

Gwyddelwern - on Wikipedia

St Asaph Notitiae  (names of heads of households c 1681) for the parish of Gwyddelwern - on the NLW's Digital Mirror site

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru  (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Cynwyd  section (in Welsh) has been extracted

Church Records

Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Merioneth Record Office.

Gazetteers

Land and Property

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

Maps

View maps covering the area of this parish and places within its boundaries

Public Records

Gwyddelwern Vestry Book 1781 - 1879 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
" ...... containing memoranda, disbursements to the poor, overseers' oaths and orders, settlements, lists of overseers, etc"

 


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