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Montgomeryshire

Contents

LLANWNNOG

• Bibliography
• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Genealogy
• Land and Property
• Maps
• Poorhouses, Poor Law etc
• Schools

Bibliography

Parish of Llanwnog : nonconformist chapels, etc. - : memorial inscriptions. [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 1998. 82p

Parish of Llanwnog, Parish Church of St. Gwynog : memorial inscriptions. Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society. 86p

The Llanwnog Millennium book : a collection of memories and photographs. Llanwnog : Llanwnog Social Committee, 2000. 88p

Wainwright, Lena. Llanwnog census 1841-1891. Llanwnog ; Llanwnog Social Committee, 2000. 24p

Census

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

Church History

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

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

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 1668-1775, 1783-1873; Marriages 1668-1911; Burials 1668-1882; Banns 1823-1849, 1875-1899
  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

Historic Landscape Characterisation - Caersws Basin on the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust site

Aerial photograph of Caersws Roman Fort on the Gathering the Jewels site

Llanwnnog - on the Cistercian Way site

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

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

• Mawn family, pedigree  1849   "William Mawn married Sarah Howell at Llanwnog, Montgomeryshire, in 1773. Their descendants lived in Llanwnog and Mochdre in the 19th century."

Land and Property

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

• Henblas estate, Llanwnnog, papers       "Papers of the Jones family of Henblas, in the parish of Llanwnnog, Montgomeryshire, including deeds, 1611-1827, copy and draft wills and miscellaneous documents and letters, 1862-1933, veterinary recipes, 1809-20 cent., log book of the Llanwnnog National School, 1863-1876, and memoranda book kept by John Jones relating to his office as petty constable of the township of Pencoed in the parish of Llanwyddelan, 1809-1821"

Maps

Victorian Powys for schools site - Map of Caersws in 1836, and 1903

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

Victorian Powys for schools site - Caersws Workhouse

Schools

Powys - A Day in the Life - Llanwnog school in 1891

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