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CEMAIS / CEMMAES

• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Maps
• Public Records

Census

Victorian Powys for schools site - Census figures for Cemais parish 1841-1901

Church History

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP,   1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Cemmes parish consisting of the townships of Brynuchel with Tafalog, and Gwernybwlch; statistics; Area 9247 acres; Population 426 males, 465 females, total 891

• Brynuchel with Tafolog Township; Population ; 143 males, 162 females
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• Sammah, Independents      Erected 1819          Attendance - morning 83 scholars, afternoon 171, evening 160           Hugh Morgans, Independent Minister
• Soar, Cemmes, Wesleyan Methodists            Erected 1836               Attendance - morning 18, afternoon 9 scholars, evening 12                 "There was a Society kept of the Wesleyan Methodists in this place since about 20 years before the erection of the chapel"         Richard Meredith, Second Class Leader
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• Gwernybwlch Township; Population 283 males, 303 females
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• Cemmes Parish Church               Attendance - morning 80 + 30 scholars, evening 70 + 25 scholars       Morning service in English, evening in Welsh                John Hughes, Rector
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• Cemmes Chapel, Calvinistic Methodist                Erected before 1800             Attendance - morning 103, afternoon 82 scholars, evening 235              William Jones, Deacon, Llwynhiraeth, Cemmes

 

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru  (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Sammah Chapel section (in Welsh) has been extracted  -  Translation by Maureen Saycell (Nov 2012)

CEMMAES, St. Tydecho   1855-1857   - on the Church plans online site

Church of St Tydecho, Cemmaes on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

Independent churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - Sammah

Calvinistic Methodist (Presbyterian) churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - Cemmaes

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 1711-1745, 1751-1927; Marriages 1711-1745, 1749-55, 1757-1970; Burials 1711-1745, 1749-1863; Banns 1823-1918
  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

Description and Travel

Country lane near Cemmaes - on the geograph.org site

Gazetteers

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

Maps

Map of Montgomeryshire parishes on Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society's site - shows dioceses

Public Records

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

• Cemmaes Parish and Community Council Records   1764-1987

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