Pembrokeshire 
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hundred"ELVIS (ST.), a parish in the hundred of DEWISLAND, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 4 miles (E. by S.) from St. David's, containing 44 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the shore of St. Bride's bay in St. George's channel, and near the road from Haverfordwest to St.David's, is one of the smallest in the principality, containing only two farms, which do not comprise together more than two hundred acres. An attempt to procure silver was once made here, but the success with which it was attended was not sufficient to encourage the adventurers to establish any permanent works. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of St, David's, rated in the king's books at £2.10. 10., endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the King, as Prince of Wales. The church, dedicated to St. Teilaw, is a small edifice, possessing no architectural features deserving notice: there is no enclosed churchyard, the funerals of deceased inhabitants being generally solemnized in the adjoining parishes of Brawdy and Whitchurch. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £5.16." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1833).]
The 1851 census for this parish has been indexed by Dyfed Family History Society.
Census Returns for this parish have the following LDS Call Numbers:
Some church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by I.G Jones, & D. Williams. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. The names are those of the informants
Parish entry for Whitchurch with St Elvis and Solva from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
C (1784-1811) M (1791-1811) entered in the PR of Whitchurch. The church was a ruin by 1990.
Parish registers: Christenings (1784-1811, 1817-36), Marriages (1791-1839) Burials - nil at Pem.RO
Copy ts PR C (1784-1811, extracts to 1824) M (1791-1811, extracts to 1839) at NLW
Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1813, 1817-22, 1824, 1829, 1833-7) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by the LDS - Call Number: 0105236.
Nonconformist Chapels: None found
Dyfed FHS have published a series of indexes of baptisms, marriages and burials from Pembrokeshire hundreds for various periods.
Places, villages, farms etc within St Elvis parish as shown on the parish map on the CD of Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. (Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R.). (Extracted by Peter D Hall)
[Gareth Hicks: 11 Nov 2007]
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