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Montgomeryshire Towns & Parishes |
"The County of MONTGOMERY is 94 Miles in Circumference, contains about 500000 Acres, is divided into 7 Hundreds, in which are 6 Market Towns, and only Montgomery sends a Member to Parliament, which is the County Town, 47 Parishes and about 5660 Houses. The air is sharp and cold by reason of its high scituation, the Valleys are very fertile, breeding very good Horses and plenty of Goats. The soil is stony, mountainous and rocky, intermixed with pleasant Bottoms. Its cheif Commodities are Flesh, Fish, Fowl and all manner of Grain for the use of Man &c." [Emanuel Bowen, Britannia Depicta, 1720]
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Powys Archives
Provide a series of Local Studies Notes with Sources for Family History and a Guide to Holdings
The National Library of Wales. Aberystwyth. The major repository of information relevant to Welsh genealogy, such as Bishop's Transcripts of Parish Registers, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, Nonconformist Records, Probate Records, Tithe Maps and Apportionment Schedules, Legal and Administrative Records, Estate Records and Personal Papers, Pedigree Books, Newspapers, etc.
Newtown Area Library
Park Lane
Newtown
Powys
SY16 1EJ
Telephone: +44 (0) 1686 626934
The library hold copies of Montgomeryshire Census Returns 1841 to 1901.
Shropshire Archives (details of )
The National Archives has details of many archive repositories in the UK with links to their web sites, if any.
A Montgomeryshire Bibliography - Books of General Interest for Family Historians
Local Books List at Powys Archives
MIs held at Powys Archives - Montgomeryshire
Montgomeryshire Records for sale by Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society
Graveyard Welsh - a guide to interpreting Memorial Inscriptions.
Montgomeryshire Records for sale by Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society
Newtown Area Library have copies of 1841 - 1901 census returns for all of Montgomeryshire, as have Powys Archives
The UK BMD web site offers links to over 400 web sites that provide on-line information for UK births, marriages and deaths and censuses.
Welsh Chapels & Churches - on Jill Muir's site
You may also find it worthwhile searching in the GENUKI church database.
Montgomeryshire Churches Survey on the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust site
Pictures of parish churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site
Pictures of various nonconformist chapels on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site
Montgomeryshire Church plans online
Detailed information on deposited registers and transcripts is given on the Powys Archives page Montgomeryshire Parish Registers
See here for a breakdown of Montgomeryshire hundreds into parishes
Montgomeryshire Records for sale by Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society
Map of Montgomeryshire parishes on Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society's site - shows dioceses
Information about parishes on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site
National Library of Wales Manuscripts and Records. An online searchable index of Marriage Bonds and Allegations.It contains details of some 90,000 marriages by licence which took place in Wales between 1616 and 1837.
Listings of (present-day) Clerics, Benefices, and parishes of the Dioceses of St Asaph, Bangor and St David's
Also the Diocese of Hereford and Diocese of Lichfield
IGI and Familysearch Here is the searchable LDS website
IGI Batch Numbers-British Isles
It is not always easy to locate your ancestors on the IGI using the search mechanisms provided at the above LDS site. Manually typing the batch numbers into the IGI search screen can be tedious. Hugh Wallis has made an exhaustive search of the likely ranges of batch numbers and created a database of those numbers and the source records that they apply to. A very powerful feature included is a hotlink from each batch number to the actual search engine provided at the Family Search site, including the ability to enter the surname you are looking for. This makes it very easy to search all the batches for a particular geographic location using just the last name you are searching for - something that is not possible directly from the LDS site without doing a lot of typing. This is Hugh Wallis's site
Brett Langston has provided details of the Registration Districts in Montgomeryshire for the period 1837 to 1930.
The UK BMD web site offers links to over 400 web sites that provide on-line information for UK births, marriages and deaths and censuses.
Powys Archives hold records pertaining to Radnorshire Quarter Sessions which were established by the same Act although records do not begin until the late seventeenth century. See also their Petty Sessions listing
Views of Old Montgomeryshire on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site
A Vision of Britain Through Time. "This site contains information about your home area from the 2001 census -- and from every earlier British census back to 1801. It can present this information both as maps of the whole country and as graphs showing change over time in your area. It truly offers a Vision of Britain through time"
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516. The Gazetteer compiled by Dr Samantha Letters is a catalogue of markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales. This is the first comprehensive national survey.
Photographs of Mid-Wales on Simon Evans Photography
A Castle Wales site - Montgomeryshire Mottes
Montgomeryshire - on wikipedia
Here is a listing of trade directories held at Powys Archives
The section of The National Gazetteer (1868) relating to Montgomeryshire - transcribed by Colin Hinson.
Tallis's Topographical Dictionary of England and Wales, published in 1860 in six vols, editor E. L. Blanchard.
See Welsh Family History Archive for all the excellent county maps (showing the hundreds) and the alphabetical gazetteer
From the preface;
"In the following pages will be found fully described the past history and present aspect of every place of any significance in England and Wales, forming a work of permanent importance to the commercial world, of ready service to the tourist of the day, and of constant interest to the general reader, who may derive from this source a large supply of entertainment, as well as of information for the amusement and instruction of a leisure hour."
Online Welsh Names Directory by Graham Jaunay
John Ball's Welsh Family History Archive provides some very useful material and links for those with Welsh ancestry.
See the All Wales Lookup Exchange gateway page to see whether there is a current Lookup Exchange for this county
Timeline of genealogically interesting dates by Gareth Hicks
Here are details of the Genealogy Mailing Lists serving the Welsh counties
Castle Wales site - the Kingdom of Powys
The 1671 Hearth Tax of Montgomeryshire - on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site
The Welsh language on the on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site
Map of Montgomeryshire in 1833 - Copied from the original in "A Topographical Dictionary of Wales" by Samuel Lewis 1833
Map of Montgomeryshire parishes on Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society's site - shows dioceses
Welsh county maps by Samuel Lewis and published in 1833
Details of various maps available at Powys Archives
Gathering the Jewels site - Montgomeryshire Militia
Local newspapers in Powys - listing at Powys Archives
Victorian Professional Photographers in Wales 1850-1925 - a county based database compiled by Mari Alderman, includes sources and a bibliography
Montgomeryshire's Metalliferous Mining Industry in 1896 - on the Peak District Mines Historical Society site
Montgomeryshire Collections is the journal of the The Powysland Club . Collections Historical & Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire, latterly Montgomeryshire collections, is an annual English-language journal containing scholarly articles on archaeological and historical topics, book reviews, and society notes. For digitisation, the publication has been split into three sequences: Vol 1. (1868)-Vol. 31 (1900) (entitled Collections Historical & Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire); Vol. 32 (1902)-Vol. 47 (1942) (entitled Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire and its borders); and Vol. 48 (1944)-present (entitled Montgomeryshire collections : relating to Montgomeryshire and its borders). On Welsh Journals Online
Record is the journal of the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society
On Welsh Journals Online. Collections Historical & Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire, latterly Montgomeryshire collections, is an annual English-language journal containing scholarly articles on archaeological and historical topics, book reviews, and society notes.
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
The Blue Books of 1847. An inquiry into the state of education in Wales - on the NLW's Digital Mirror site
Day Schools in Montgomeryshire in 1847. This database consists of
day schools which existed in 1847 included here within an alphabetical list of parishes
It contains the names and types of day schools listed in the
Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales published in 1847
A Day in the Life site - Welcome to Powys in 1891
Crime and punishment in nineteenth century Montgomeryshire - Powys Digital History Project
The 1671 Hearth Tax of Montgomeryshire on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site
INDIVIDUAL TOWNS AND PARISHES - See Alphabetical Listing
This county is maintained by Gareth Hicks with help and information provided by a number of other volunteers.
[Last updated: 8 Jan 2012 - Gareth Hicks .]
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