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TREGYNON

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

Census

Victorian Powys for schools site - Census figures for Tregynon 1841-1901

Church History

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of Tregynon St. Cynon

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 6760 acres; Population 378 males, 340 females, total 718

• Tregynon Parish Church               Attendance - average - 90 - 150     Service in English    " In consequence of the parish being served with another there is but one service - Morning and Evening - alternately each Sunday"          R W Morgan, Perpetual Curate
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• Tregynon Chapel, Calvinistic Methodist               Erected before 1800            Attendance - morning 27 + 28 scholars, evening 60              Richard Tilsley, Deacon
• Gerezim, Calvinistic Methodist              Erected 1840                 Attendance - morning 51 scholars, afternoon 62, evening 48            Owen Brown, Trustee, Argoed

Church of St Cynon, Tregynon on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

Transcription of the Roll of Honour at Tregynon Parish Church.

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 1689-1891; Marriages 1680-4, 1689, 1695-1970 ; Burials 1677-81, 1685, 1689-1993 ; Banns 1823-1939
  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  

Gazetteers

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

Maps

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

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

Occupations

Ty'n y Bryn Farms near Tregynon village - many photographs of a modern working farm     "Tynybryn is a family farm in the heart of Mid Wales. It is farmed by John & Jean Jones their sons Tim and Dan, and Dan's wife Janine. It was established by Jean's grandparents Dan and Florence Gethin in 1913......."

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