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LLANFIHANGEL HELYGEN

• Church History
• Church Records
• Gazetteers
• History
• Maps
• Public Records

Church History

Church of St Michael, Llanfihangel Helygen on the Radnorshire Churches Survey site

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.

Llanfihangel-Helygen Parish; Statistics; Area 1459 acres; Population 51 males, 49 females, total 100

• Llanfihangel-Helygon Parish Church      Attendance - afternoon 27     1 service in English     Charles Davies Rees, Curate
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• Fron and Deuaeth, Wesleyan Methodist                Not a separate building       Attendance - morning 30   "Only on Sunday morning we have preaching in Fron and Deuaeth, and the preaching is carried out in rotation; so that the two places are only equivalent to one. There is no Sunday school connected with these places"        John Jones, Wesleyan Preacher, Llanidloes

Church Records

Detailed information on deposited registers and transcripts for this parish is given on the Powys Archives page Radnorshire parish registers

A note in BT Llanllyr/Llanyre 1713 says that "there was no register ever kept at Llanvyangell it being no burial place but what there happens is inserted in the registers of Nantmell and Llanyre." ( Parish Registers of Wales, 2000)

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 1732-1738 with gaps, 1781-99, 1806-1991; Marriages 1737, 1755-1796, 1805-10, 1814-1834, 1841-1971; Burials 1811, 1828-1990
  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 Llanfihangel Helygen from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
• A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

History

Llanfihangel Helygen St Michael War Memorial - on the Roll of Honour site

Maps

Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348.   Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county

View maps covering the area of this parish and places within its boundaries

Public Records

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Llanfihangel Helygen Parish Council minute book 1894-1974  
• Llanfihangel Helygen Prish Records  1831-1859      "Certificate of publishing of banns; 2 requests to publish banns"

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