Bron-gwyn

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.

• Parish Church "It belongs to the parish of Penbryn" "The minister refuse to full up this paper" John Jones, Churchwarden

Parish entry for Bettws Evan with Bryngwyn from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).

• St John & St Mary (Bryngwyn)
• Incumbent and Curates; R L Jones
• Rural Deanery of Sub Aeron
• Acreage 2,536 & 1,645 ; Population 537

Tre-wen (Y Drewen) Ind chapel, Cwm-coy

• Trewen Ind chapel Erected c 1736 Owen Davies, Deacon, Llwynbedw 1851 census (see Church History above)
• Trewen Ind chapel (Y Drewen) SN29274183 Preaching in houses from 1672 Built 1737, 1814, restored 1843 & 1859 - at Trewen village Members 100 in 1737, 600 in 1833, 250 in 1853 Records; 1. Bapts 1785-1806; Births & bapts 1814-37 at PRO & in IGI 2. Copies bapts 1819-95, & burials 1845-89 at Cer.R.O
  (Sources ; combined - Rawlins - see Notes on Church/Chapel Records page and The Chapels Recording Project in Wales )
• Tre-wen, Cong chapel, Bron-gwyn Bapts 1785-1816 at PRO; Bapts 1819-89 & Burials 1845-89 at Carm & Cer ROs ( Nonconformist Registers of Wales, 1994)
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• Bron-y-gwyn Ind chapel, Trewen Closed 1816 Bapts 1785-1816 copies at SOG
  And
• Tre-y-wen Ind chapel, Brongwyn Bapts 1819-1880, burials 1848-89 at Carm RO
  And
• Y Drewen Opened in 1737 Still open 1992 ( My Ancestors were Congregationalists in England and Wales, by D J H Clifford, SOG, 1992)
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• See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg (under Bron-gwyn Circuit)

• Cardiganshire Family History Society - Index to deaths and burials in Cardiganshire from non-conformist records is available on fiche.
  Check details on their site, for this parish includes ; Trewen (Ind., 1845-89).
• Monumental inscriptions for Trewen Independent Chapel, Cwmcoy Brongwyn and Brongwyn: [Santes Fair, Parcau, Tre-wen] are available on microfiche from Dyfed FHS

• The History of Trewen Congregational Church, Cwm Cou, near Newcastle Emlyn by D Alltwen Jones. [in Welsh]
• Photograph on Dyfed FHS
• 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 (Nov 2008)
• 1.Photocopy of the register of baptisms at Trewen Independent chapel, Brongwyn. 1819-1885   2.Photocopy of the register of burials at Trewen Independent chapel, Brongwyn. 1845-1889; held at Ceredigion Archives/Catalogue(Collections)

The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales., by Jones, I.G. & Williams, D. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. These statistics for this parish are extracted from this book which in turn got them from the 1851 census itself;

• Area 1620 acres; Population 177 males, 190 females, total 367

Places, villages, farms etc within Bron-Gwyn as shown on the online parish map from 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 Gareth Hicks)

• Bron-Gwyn (94); Aber-Gwrog; Blaen-dyffryn; Brongwyn (village); Bryn-Gwrog; Cilfallen; Cwm-coy; Pant-Einon; Parc-y-Castell; Penbwliaid; Penralltgeri; Y Gaer;