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LLANFAIR CAEREINION

• Bibliography
• Business and Commerce Records
• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Land and Property
• Maps
• Public Records
• Schools

 Bibliography

Ballantyne, Hugh. The Welshpool and Llanfair Railway : a nostalgic trip along the whole route from Welshpool (GWR) to Llanfair Caereinion. Wadenhoe : Past & Present, 2001. 80p

Carver, B E V. Monumental inscriptions : Capel Horeb, Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Cymraeg : Horeb Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel : Llanfair Caereinion Montgomeryshire. Basingstoke : M. E. MacSorley, 1996. 16p

Carver, B E V. Monumental Inscriptions : Penarth Independent Chapel, Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire. Basingstoke : M. E. MacSorley, 1996. 21p

Carver, M D. Llanfair Caereinion tithe apportionment. Cronicl Powys. No. 19 (1988), p. 66-7

Carver, M D. Monumental inscriptions : Old Baptist Chapel Burial Ground and Zion Baptist Chapel : Llanfair Caereinion Montgomeryshire. Basingstoke : M.E. MacSorley, 1996. 6p

Carver, M D. The rise of Independency in the parish of Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire. Cronicl Powys. No. 11 (1985), p. 11-12

Cerdded o fewn o gwmpas Llanfair Caereinion = Walks in and around Llanfair Caereinion. Llanfair Caereinion : Llanfair Caereinion and District Forum, 2001. 16p

Davies, T Alun. Rural clockmaking in eighteenth-century Wales : Samuel Roberts of Llanfair Caereinion, 1775-1874. Business History Review 59/1 (1985), p. 49-75

Morrell, Emily. Llanfair Caereinion. [Llanfair Caereinion] : Paul Adams, [1988] 10p

Owen, Robert. The official handbook to the Lordship of Caereinion : containing the topography and history and several legendary tales of Llanfair and the other five Parishes of Caereinion ... Welshpool : R. & M. Owen, 1903. 46p Parish of Llanfair Caereinion : Bethlehem Welsh Presbyterian Chapel ... : memorial inscriptions. [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 1997. 152p

Pryce, W T R. The photographer in rural Wales : a photographic archive of Llanfair Caereinion, Powys and its region, c.1865-1986. Llanfair Caereinion : Powysland Club, 1991.

Roberts, Merfyn. 109 'dan ni yma o hyd' : hanes addysg ganolradd, eilradd ac uwchradd yn Llanfair Caereinion 1894-2003. Llanfair Caereinion : Ysgol Caereinion, 2003. 10p

Spencer, Kirsten. Local walks around Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion. Machynlleth : Kittiwake, 2003. 32p

Business and Commerce Records

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

• Midland Bank, Llanfair Caereinion branch, papers    " ............ including minutes; papers relating to the centenary of the Midland Bank in Llanfair Caereinion, 1980-1981;.........."  
• R. D. Hughes & Sons, Grocer and Confectioner, Llanfair Caereinion business records   1913-1965   
• Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, papers   1897-1923     "Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, Montgomeryshire, opened in 1903, linking the rural communities around Llanfair Caereinion to the market at Welshpool. The line carried only freight from 1931 and closed in 1956 ............"  
• Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, photographs  1971

Census

Victorian Powys for schools site - Census figures for Llanfair Caereinion 1841-1901

Church History

Church of St Mary, Llanfair Caereinion on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for Penuel  chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation               Also Penarth chapel  (No translation)        Also Llanfaircaereinion chapel (No translation)       Also Siloh chapel ? (No translation)    Also Dolanog chapel  (No translation)             Also Canaan chapel - 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 1608-1622, 1624-1666, 1669-76, 1680-1702, 1723-1992; Marriages 1608-1622, 1624-43, 1662-6, 1670-6, 1680-1702, 1723-1955 ; Burials 1608-1622, 1624-1667, 1670-6, 1680-1702, 1723-1992
  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, Denbighshire Archives and/or Flintshire Archives

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

• Capel Pentyrch, cofysgrifau (records)    "Adeiladwyd a sefydlwyd Capel Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Pentyrch, Four Crosses, Llanfair Caereinion, yn 1834. Gelwid y capel weithiau yn gapel y Gelli am ei fod wedi cael ei adeiladu ar dir y Gelli. Mae'r capel yn rhan o Ddosbarth Llanfair, Henaduriaeth Trefaldwyn Isaf."     "A certificate in order that marriages be registered for Pentyrch Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Llanfair Caereinion, 1 December 1948.

Description and Travel

Llanfair Caereinion - on BBC Wales

Victorian Powys for schools site - Llanfair Caereinion and district

Cae Castell Einion Fieldname, Llanfair Caereinion

Gazetteers

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

Land and Property

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

• Gelli estate, records     "Deeds relating to properties in Montgomeryshire, 1610-1890, including y Gelli and Pentyrch, Llanfair Caereinion"  
• William Edwards of Ludlow: property in Montgomeryshire     "Deeds and other documents, 1809-1839, relating to property in Llanfair Caereinion and Manafon, Montgomeryshire"
• Kerry, Llanerfyl, Llanfair Caereinion and Mochdre, deeds  1617-1901    "..................... The properties of Tyddyn y Gardden and Tyddyn y Gogrydd, now Rhyd-y-Gro, were in the parishes of Llanerfyl and Llanfair Caereinion, and were owned by Rees Thomas (fl. 1723-1748) and his descendants ......................."

Maps

Victorian Powys for schools site - Llanfair Caereinion in 1836, and 1902

Public Records

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

• Llanfair Caereinion Public Hall and Institute, minutes 1914-1956
• Llanfair Caereinion Town Council records   1894-1981

Schools

Victorian Powys for schools site - Llanfair Caereinion - Victorian School Days

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