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LLANSANFFRAID-YM-MECHAIN

• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Gazetteers
• Maps

Census

Victorian Powys for schools site - Census figures for Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain  parish 1841-1901

Church History

Church of St Ffraid, Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

Wesleyan churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain

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

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 Penygroes  chapel (in Welsh )      Also Llansantffraid chapel

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 1582-1615, 1653-4, 1656, 1665, 1680, 1712-1750, 1757-1911; Marriages 1582-1615, 1674-1750, 1754-1970; Burials 1582-1615, 1666, 1668-1750, 1757-1851, 1898-1993
  Parish Registers, or copies, for all or part of these dates are held at the NLW, SOG 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;

• Gwern-y-pant Church, Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain, records  1900-2001    "The Calvinistic Methodist cause began in the parish of Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain around 1797. At first, meetings were held at Gwernypant, a dwelling house owned by Thomas Pryce.In 1815 Pryce gave land for the purpose of erecting a meeting house and donated a sum of money towards the building fund. The chapel, incorporating a house which stood on the original site, was erected in 1816. Extensive alterations were made to the building in 1868. Originally a Welsh chapel, Gwern-y-pant became an English cause in 1863. The chapel was closed in June 2001."

Gazetteers

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

Maps

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