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"PENTRAETH, a parochial chapelry in the hundred of Tyndaethwy, county Anglesey, 5 miles N.W. of Beaumaris, its post town, and 7 from Bangor. The village is situated on the banks of a rivulet which flows into Red Wharf Bay, about 1 mile N., on the shores of which are found a rare variety of shells. There are marble and limestone quarries in the neighbourhood. The living is a perpetual curacy with the curacy of Llanbedr-Goch annexed, in the diocese of Bangor, value £400, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains tombs of the Pantons of Plas Gwyn. The parochial charities produce about £14 per annum, of which £4 goes to Jones's school. Annual fairs are held on the 5th May, 24th June, and 20th September." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
An act for inclosing lands in Llangefni, Llanddyfnan, Pentraeth, and Cerrigceinwen, in the County of Anglesey : (Royal Assent, 9 June 1812.). [London : Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons], 1812. 27pPentraeth : pentref a'i phobl = a village and it's people. Llangefni : Menter Môn, 1999.
Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Pentraeth section (in Welsh) has been extracted . Also that for Rhosfawr
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Anglesey Record Office.
Eglwys Penygarnedd Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Pentraeth, Annual reports 1952-1986 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales ".... established in 1880; its first minister was the Rev. Ebenezer Evans; a later minister was the Rev. R. Matthews"
Evans, Ebenezer, Parch. (Rev.), a'r Parch. (Rev.) R. Matthews, Penygarnedd, papurau (papers) [1830]-[1937] - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales "Includes; Sermon notes, many manuscript, by Ebenezer Evans, 1830-1910; correspondence, 1910-1934; and papers relating to the history of Penygarnedd Chapel, 1880-1930"Pentraeth - on Wikipedia
Pentraeth Village site
PENTRAETH (PEN-TRAETH), a parish in the hundred of TYNDAETHWY, county of ANGLESEY, NORTH WALES, 5 miles (N. W.) from Beaumaris, containing 938 inhabitants. The name of this place, signifying " the head or point of the sands," is derived from its situation at the head of a small bay of the Irish sea, called Traeth Coch, or "the Red Sands," and some-times Red Wharf bay. The parish comprises a considerable tract of arable and pasture land, which is enclosed and cultivated, and a large portion of common, affording tolerable pasturage for sheep and young cattle. Several of the inhabitants are employed in the quarries of marble and limestone which are worked here on a considerable scale, and as seamen on board the vessels engaged in conveying the produce of these quarries to its destination : there is also a small fulling-mill in the village, affording employment to a few persons. The whole of the western side of the Traeth Coch, which is the place for shipping the marble and lime-stone that are found on this part of the island, is within the parish ; and the sands on the shore of the bay, which are dry at low water, are so inter-mixed with sea-shells, as to form a substitute for lime, and to be employed as manure for many miles round, even constituting a considerable article of export to the neighbouring coasts. The village, which is very neat and of prepossessing appearance, is pleasantly situated in a narrow sheltered vale, on the turnpike road from Beaumaris to Llanerchymedd. Plas Gwyn, the seat of the late Paul Panton, Esq., and now the residence of his brother, is a spacious and handsome mansion, surrounded with thriving woods and plantations, and containing a valuable library, in which are ninety-one volumes of manuscripts, chiefly in the Welsh language, which, during the life of the predecessor of the present occupier, was open to the inspection of the literary portion of the community. Fairs are held on May 5th, June 24th, and September 20th. The living forms part of the great rectory of Llanddyvnan, in the archdeaconry of Anglesey, and diocese of Bangor, held in commendam since the year 1701 by the Bishops of Bangor, who appoint a curate to serve both churches. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small but neat edifice, and was put into a complete state of repair in 1821: it contains some good monuments to the memory of deceased members of the families of Plas Gwyn and Tre-vry, and is one of the only two churches in the island noticed by the learned Grose, in his Antiquities of Great Britain. There are places of worship for Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. Richard Jones, in 1715, bequeathed a tenement called Gors-las, in this parish, the rental of which he directed to be divided in equal portions among the poor of Pentraeth and Llansadwrn ; and Dr. John Jones, Dean of Bangor, in 1719, gave £ 100 to the rector, in trust for teaching ten poor children to read Welsh. Mrs. Anne Williams charged the estate of Plas Gwyn with the payment of £ 50, the interest of which, together with the rental of a tenement in Holyhead, an annual payment in money from Tan y Lon, £28 per annum arising from a mortgage on a tenement called Pen y Lon, and the bequest of Richard Jones, has been from some unknown cause either totally withheld, or diverted from its proper object. There are also various other charitable donations and bequests, of which several are by unknown benefactors, for distribution among the necessitous poor of the parish. Dr. John Jones, Dean of Bangor, who bequeathed many extensive benefactions to various parishes, principally for educating poor children, was born at Plas Gwyn, in this parish : he left his valuable library to the cathedral church of Bangor. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor amounts to £261. 8. (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833)
Rogers, Thomas, of Pentraeth, papurau (papers) 1802-1980 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Thomas Rogers, of Pentraeth, Anglesey, was a
grocer and general dealer. He was sub-postmaster from 1880 to 1900, when he was
succeeded by Catherine Elias. By 1912, Rogers' shop was known as The Old Post
Office......"
Rev. David Elias of Pentraeth Papers - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"David Elias, born in 1790, was the brother of John Elias. He too was a preacher
(ordained in 1835) ........"
Fair Day at Pentraeth, c 1877 - on the Gathering the Jewels site
Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);
Pentraeth Community school - has local facts and figures plus photographs
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