Abererch

Rhyd-y-gwystl Woollen Factory Accounts 1823 - 1882 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"...... the business was running from 1835 - 1882 and was situated in the parish of Aber-erch ....."

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of ;

• St Cawrdaf Church, nr Abererch
• Ebenezer Independent Chapel, Abererch
• Ebeneser Welsh CM Ysgoldy/school room/chapel, Four Crosses ( Y Ffor)

• 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 Abererch   chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Feb 2010)       Also Fourcrosses chapel  - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Feb 2010)

Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site

• ST CAWRDAF'S CHURCH, ABERERCH
• Ebenezer chapel (Cong), Aber-erch
• Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Aber-erch
• Officials of Y Ffor Chapel (CM), Y Ffor, Aber-erch (1887)

Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at the Caernarfon Area Record Office.

Abererch churchyard - some inscriptions on Alwyn's Godsacre site

Abererch - on wicipedia

Abererch Station - by David Medcalf on wikimedia commons

• Geograph
• Flickr

"ABEREIRCH (ABER-ERCH), a parish partly In the hundred of DINLLAEN, and partly in the hundred of EIVIONEDD, county of CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, 1 1/2 mile (E. N. E.) from Pwllheli, on the road to Criccieth, containing 1365 inhabitants. This small parish is pleasantly situated on the sea-shore, near the mouth of the river Eirch, from which it has received its name, and contains some agreeable scenery, interspersed with several well-built genteel houses, the principal of which is Hendrev, the property and residence of the Rev. T. Roberts. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Penrhos annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Bangor, rated in the king's books at £ 6, endowed with £ 600 royal bounty, and £ 600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bangor. The church, dedicated to St. Cawrdav, is an ancient and spacious building, in the later style of English architecture, and consists of a nave, north aisle, and chancel ; the two eastern windows, which are enriched with elegant tracery, have been ornamented with stained glass. There are places of Worship for Independents and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. A tenement in the parish was bequeathed for the use of the poor, by the late Rev. Mr. Conway, the incumbent, and is now let for £6 per annum, which, with £4 per annum, arising from other charitable donations and bequests, is annually distributed on St. Thomas' day. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £460. 13." (Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833). (Copied using  the original books AND the Cd published by Archive CD Books

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Abererch to another place.

Bryngolau (Abererch) papers 1857-1904 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"William Williams and family farmed at Bryngolau (or Bryn Goleu, Bryngoleu), Abererch during the mid 19th century, later moving to Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire"

Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Memorandum of Recognizance of Margaret verch David Gruffyth of Bryncroes, widow in the sum of £20 to appear at the next Quarter Sessions and to keep the peace towards Elizabeth Gorton of the same place, on the pledges of Gruffyth Thomas of Aber-erch, yeoman and Owen Evan of Bryncroes, yeoman 
• Aber-erch street scene, c. 1885

Gwynedd Family History Society  have a diagram of the ecclesiastical parishes of Caernarfonshire (under Parishes)  - with some links to photographs of parish churches

The parish of Abereirch in Carnarvonshire - on the People's Collection Wales site

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SH401380 (Lat/Lon: 52.915542, -4.379039), Abererch which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Hay-making outside the Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Aber-erch, c. 1885 - on the People's Collection Wales site