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ABERHAFESB

• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Maps
• Schools

Church History

Church of St Gwynnog, Aberhafesp on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

Salon Exhibit of St Gwynnog's Church, Aberhafesp - on the E-Museum of Pyrographic Art site    "These amazing panels--mounted in a screen that covers most of the west wall--were dedicated to the church in 1893 by E. B. Proctor, the main benefactor, who resided at Aberhafesp Hall and owned much of the surrounding land and buildings......."

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru  (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Bwlchyffridd  section (in Welsh) has been extracted  - with translation by Maureen Saycell (Aug 2009)

Church Records

Detailed information on deposited registers and transcripts for this parish is given on the Powys Archives page Montgomeryshire parish registers

As a guide only, the principal extant parochial church records for this parish span the dates shown below (as detailed in Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 2000) but exact current holdings should be confirmed with the individual Archives;

• Baptisms 1578-1601, 1623-5, 1630-51, 1721-4, 1726-1993; Marriages 1579-1602, 1623-4, 1628, 1633-42, 1644, 1648, 1721-4, 1726-1970; Burials 1578-82, 1584-7, 1590, 1603, 1619, 1623-6, 1640-6, 1721-4, 1726-1993; Banns 1823-1878,1894-1991
  Parish Registers, or copies, for all or part of these dates are held at the NLW, and/or Powys Archives.  
  Bishops Transcripts for various periods are held at the NLW, Denbigh Archives and/or Flintshire Archives  

St Asaph Notitiae;  Aberhafesp parish, Deanery of Cedewain - on the NLW site

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

• Hamer Papers (Papers donated by Miss Hamer, Newtown)    Include  "............ transcripts, [20th century], from Aberhafesb registers of baptisms and burials (1757-1901).........."

Description and Travel

Aberhafesp Village on BBC Wales

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Aberhafesb from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
• A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

Maps

Schools

Dilwyn's schooldays - on BBC Wales

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