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Montgomeryshire

Contents

MANAFON

• Bibliography
• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Gazetteers
• History
• Land and Property
• Maps
• Schools

Bibliography

R S Thomas - on Wikipedia

Brown, Roger L. Sad, mad or bad : the case of Evan Jenkins, Rector of Manafon. Montgomeryshire Collections 83 (1995), p. 177-88 Parish of Manafon, Parish Church of St Michael and Beulah Presbyterian Chapel : memorial inscriptons. [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 1996. 49p.  And 1998, 54p

Pritchard, T W. Manafon Church. Much Wenlock : R.J.L. Smith, c1998. 20p

Census

Victorian Powys for schools site - Census figures for Manafon 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.

Parish statistics; Area 6635 acres; Population 390 males, 376 females, total 766

• Manafon Parish Church - no return
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• Beulah Chapel, New Mills, Calvinistic Methodist             Erected 1822/3     Day school                 Attendance - morning 23 + 52 scholars, afternoon 80 scholars, evening 27 + 71 scholars   John Parry, Leader, Birch House, Tregynon
• Sion, Wesleyan Methodist              Erected 1842      Attendance - morning 29, afternoon 44, evening 50                David Edwards, Deacon, Penybryn, Manafon

Church of St Michael, Manafon 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 Manafon section, Byrwydd chapel (in Brynhwdog) (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 1596-1665, 1678-1891; Marriages 1654, 1678-1971; Burials 1596-1667, 1678-1930; Banns 1812-1838
  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  

St Asaph Notitiae; Deanery of Cedewain, parish of Manafon 1681? - on the NLW site

Gazetteers

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

History

RS Thomas and the problem of Welsh Identity ( (site disappeared June 2012)   by Jeffery A Triggs. "......... In the early 1940's, Thomas took over the parish of Manafon, a town near the English border where 'most people spoke with a Shropshire accent using a strange admixture of Welsh idioms' ............''

Land and Property

Cut away drawing of Pen-y-Bont, Manafon - on the People's Collection Wales site

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

• William Edwards of Ludlow: property in Montgomeryshire     "Deeds and other documents, 1809-1839, relating to property in Llanfair Caereinion and Manafon, Montgomeryshire"

Maps

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

Victorian Powys for schools site - Manafon in 1836, and 1902

Schools

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

• Manafon school records  1832-1983  

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