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MEIFOD

• Bibliography
• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Land and Property
• Maps

Bibliography

Edwards, R Wynn. A history of the parish of Meifod. 188?, 188p

Jones, Gwilym T. A headless ghost at Meifod. Country Quest 30/10 (1990), p. 41 Meifod : a century of change : a pictorial record. Llanfyllin : Meifod Local History Group, 1999. 158p

Parish of Meifod : memorial inscriptions. [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 2003. 48p

Parish of Meifod : Main Independent Chapel : Register of baptisms, 1821-1837. [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 2001. 32p

Parish of Meifod : register of baptisms, 1761-1812. [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 2003. 146p

Parish of Meifod : register of baptisms, 1813-1880. [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 2003. 116p

Parish of Meifod : register of baptisms, marriages & burials 1649-1675. Welshpool : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, c2003. Also 1675-1702, 2003. Also 1597-1648, 2003.

Parish of Meifod : register of burials : 1702-1812 . [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 2003. 160p. Also 1813-1870 , 2003.

Parish of Meifod : register of marriages, 1702-1837. [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 2003. 106p

Scard, M Ann. Village with a tale to tell : a journey to Meifod. Country Quest (November 1998), p. 44

Census

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

Church History

Church of St Tyslio, Meifod on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

Independent churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - Meifod

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

Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru  (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The  Sarnau  section (in Welsh) has been extracted       Also Main chapel        Also Meifod chapel     Also Pontrobert 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 1597, 1600, 1602, 1604-22, 1624-6, 1628-32, 1634-42, 1647-1880; Marriages 1602, 1605-18, 1620-6, 1628-31, 1634-7, 1640-2, 1649-1970; Burials 1600, 1602-26, 1628-32, 1634-42, 1647-1922; Banns 1838-1917
  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 

Description and Travel

Meifod on BBC Wales 

Meifod - on Wikipedia

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Meifod 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;

• Dolobran estate, records    "Deeds relating to the Dolobran estate in the parishes of Meifod and Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa , Montgomeryshire. The deeds date from the time of Charles Lloyd (1662-1747), and are records of mortgages, transfers of mortgages and creations of trusts, of the sale of the estate by the Lloyd family to Joseph Jones, and of the repurchase in 1873 of a portion of the old estate (Dolobran Fach) by Henry Lloyd. Two documents dated 1878 refer to the acquisition of the other part of the estate by Sampson Samuel Lloyd, MP. The part played by Dolobran in the history of the Quakers in Montgomeryshire is reflected in letters, 1813-1829 relating to transactions for the sale of the Quaker Meeting House and Burial Ground at Dolobran"  
• Glascoed, Meifod, deeds   "Deeds, 1690-1782, relating to property in the township of Glascoed, Meifod, and Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire."   
• Pontysgawrhyd, deeds     "Deeds relating to properties near the river Vyrnwy in Meifod, Montgomeryshire, 1562-1602, including Pontysgawrhyd and Pontysgawrhyd Mill."  
• Ystumcolwyn Estate, Meifod, Deeds     1674-1854     "..............The Price family lived at Keel (or Cil), Meifod and owned property in Montgomeryshire, Denbighshire and Shropshire......."

Maps

Victorian Powys for schools site - Map of Meifod in 1840, and 1902

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