Ystradyfodwg Contents Nearby Places

Pentre in the Parish of Ystradyfodwg

Church Records

St. Peter, Pentre - Chapel of ease to Ystradyfodwg

The church is dedicated to St. Peter, is in the Benefice of Pentre St. Peter, and the diocese of Llandaff. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference SS969962.

GRO - Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff
NLW - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Description and Travel

Images of the Rhondda Valley site

Historic Landscape Characterisation: The Rhondda - on the CADW site.  
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Directories

Transcript of complete name listing for Treherbert and Ystrad-Rhondda, with the parish and hamlets of Ystradyfodwg, Blaen-y-cwm, Blaen-y-Rhondda, Cwmdare, Cwmpark, Llwynpia, Pen-y-graig, Penyrenglyn, Pentre, Ton-pentre-ystrad, Ton-y-pandy, Treorky, Tynewydd and Tynybedw, from Slaters Directory for 1880.

Occupations

• Bodringallt Colliery, Pentre on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Pentre Colliery, Rhondda on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Tynybedw Colliery, Pentre on the Welsh Coal Mines site
• Pentre Colliery on the Welsh Coal Mines site

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

• Records of Cory Brothers and Company Ltd.     1888-1943       "Richard Cory (1799-1882) of Devon, was the owner of a small vessel which traded between Cardiff, Bristol and Ireland in the early part of the 19th century. In 1838 he opened a ship's chandler store in Cardiff. By 1856 Richard Cory was joined by his sons, John (1828-1910) and Richard (1830-1914), and traded as Richard Cory and Sons. They described themselves as ship-brokers, ship-owners, coal merchants and exporters. Three years later, when Richard Cory retired, John and Richard renamed the business Cory Brothers and Co. It became a limited liability company in 1888, at which point the minute books start.John and Richard Cory became coal owners in their own right with the purchase of Pentre colliery in the Rhondda in 1868. Gelli, Tynybedw and Tydraw collieries were later acquired, also several collieries in adjoining valleys......................................"

Schools

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

• Pentre, Secondary school, Pentre records      " ...... was erected in 1903 as Pentre Higher Elementary school in the township of Pentre, which formed part of the Urban District Council of Rhondda. The Elementary school was converted into a Secondary school in 1914 and originally accomodated 300 mixed pupils"
  "............comprising of log book, 1942-1970"

Pentre in the Parish of Ystradyfodwg

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