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COLFA / COLVA

• Church History
• Church Records
• Gazetteers
• Genealogy
• History
• Maps

Church History

Church of St David, Colva on the Radnorshire Churches Survey site

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of  Colva St Davids

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 given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Colva Parochial Chapelry; Statistics; Area 2293 acres; Population 96 males, 88 females, total 184

• Colva. A Parochial Chapelry (under Glascombe)     Attendance - afternoon 24      1 service in English    David Vaughan, Curate

Church Records

Detailed information on deposited registers and transcripts for this parish is given on the Powys Archives page Radnorshire 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 1663-1794, 1813-1988; Marriages 1663-1753, 1756-1811, 1813-1971; Burials 1663-1794, 1813-1991 Banns 1825-1844
  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  

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

Will of John Vaughan of Colva, 1624 -  abstract on Hugh Wallis's site from LDS transcriptons

History

Ruined farm in hills above Colva - on the Cistercian Way site

Maps

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