GENUKI: Cosheston

COSHESTON

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"COSHESTON, a parish in the hundred of CASTLE-MARTIN, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 2 Miles (N.) from Pembroke, containing 678 inhabitants. The village is beautifully situated on the southern declivity of a hill, the base of which is washed by an estuary of Milford Haven, navigable for barges. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of St.David's, rated in the king's books at £11.12.11., and in the patronage of Sir John Owen, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient structure, in the early style of English architecture, with a low tower surmounted by a spire. The poor children of this parish are admissible into the National school at Pembroke. John Jones, Esq., M.D., in 1698, bequeathed certain property for apprenticing poor children, and the relief of the aged and infirm, of the four parishes of Lawrenny, Cosheston, St.David's, and Lampeter-Velvrey, with a discretionary power to his brother, the Rev. Mr. Jones, as executor, to add other parishes: of the produce of this charity, Cosheston receives a sum amounting to about £30 per annum, which is appropriated agreeably to the directions of the testator. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor amounts to £137. 15." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1833).]

Census
Church History
Church Records
Description and Travel
Genealogy
History
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Census

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:

1841 Census - 0464342
1851 Census - 0104233
1861 Census - 0543242
1871 Census - 0850852
1881 Census - 1342303
1891 Census - 6099637

Church History

COSHESTON, St. Michael 1831-1833 - on the Church plans online site

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

Cosheston Parish Church William Bowling, Rector
Nebo Independents or Congregationalists Erected in 1836 (by voluntary subscriptions) William Trevent, Deacon
Congregational or Independent John Lewis, Deacon
"Remarks: This is a place under the jurisdiction of the Independent Chapel at Pembroke for Prayer meetings Exclusively on every Sunday Evening. The Congregation is composed of members of the Church and other Denominations of Desenters which is termed Union Prayers. Consequently they will be returned from their respective places of Worship Morning and Afternoon."

Parish entry from the Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).

St Michael
Incumbent and Curates; J J Woolsey
Rural Deanery of Castlemartin
Acreage 1,990; Population 508

Church Records

Parish registers: Christenings (1723-42, 1752-1944), Marriages (1723-40, 1752-1970) Banns (1755-99, 1882-1967), Burials (1723-42, 1752-1891) at Pem.RO

Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1799-1886) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by the LDS - Call Number: 0105138.

Copy ts PR/BT C (1723-1825) M (1723-1812) B (1723-1812) at Pem.RO

Copy ts PR M pre 1813 with index at NLW and Pem.RO

Nonconformist Chapels:

Mission Baptist church, Cosheston On Dyfed FHS
Nebo, near Mt Pleasant [Independents, 1832]. Records ; See The Tabernacle. SN00700371 Built in 1836 Coflein On Dyfed FHS Nebo Ind chapel shown as still open on the Union of Welsh Independents site (Dec 2006)
Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for this chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation by Maureen Saycell (April 2008)

Dyfed FHS have published a series of indexes of baptisms, marriages and burials from Pembrokeshire hundreds for various periods.

Description and Travel

Places, villages, farms etc within Cosheston 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 Barry Johnson)

Cosheston (146); Bateman's Hill, Cosheston, Cosheston Pt., Ferny Pits, Hakin Point, Jenkin Point, Lanehead, Mayeston, Mill Bay, Mount Pleasant, Paskeston, Whalecombe.

Cosheston Pill from Cosheston Bridge - on the geograph.org site

Genealogy

Pembrokeshire Families

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

Howell family, of Cosheston, Pembrokeshire, and Florence Howell papers "Papers of the Howell family, 1830-1957, including timber business records, 1874-1933; agricultural records, 1910-1919; records of shares, 1932-1956; .................................."