Cardigan

Beynon, Daniel Islwyn. Eseia Williams : Aberteifi . Descriptor: Union of Welsh Independents Biography. Named Person: Williams, Eseia, 1889- Gwasg Ty ar y Graig, 1973

Bayliss, M.J. The Makeigs in Cardigan; The Parkypratt Family . Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, Vol VII, No 2, 1973.

Baylis, M.J. A Portrait of Thomas Makeig IV [1772-1838] of Little Scotland and Park Y Pratt. Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society VolV/2, 1965.

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

• Davies Brothers (Bonded Stores), records 1800-[1921]
  "The business of Davies Brothers was established around 1800 and sold bonded spirits, wines and beers to licensed premises in the Cardigan area. In 1896 the business was amalgamated with The Swansea Old Brewery and with Messrs R. George & Son of Pembroke to form The Swansea Old Brewery & Davies' (Cardigan) Bonded Stores Ltd., with branches in Swansea, Pembroke and Cardigan........."

Held at the NLW ;

• Records donated by Idris Mathias largely relating to the Swansea Old Brewery & Davies [Cardigan] Bonded Stores Ltd, Cardigan, 1872-1921.

Held at Ceredigion Archives;

• C19 and C20 sale posters from the Cardigan and Teivyside press at Cardigan.

Monumental inscriptions for St Mary's Church, Cardigan and Cardigan, Penparcau available on microfiche from  Dyfed FHS.

The Cardigan town 1851 census index has been published by  Dyfed FHS

St Mary's Church - photograph on Dyfed FHS

Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• BETHANIA WELSH BAPTIST CHURCH, CARDIGAN 
• St. Mary's Church And Vicarage, Priory Street, Cardigan

See John Ball's site Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection for a photograph/data re St Mary's Church

See Chapels database

Peregrine, David John Morien. A Brief Historical and General Survey of St. Mary's Parish Church, Cardigan. [With plates.] [The Author:] Cardigan, 1954. 8o. [BM 7823.f.3]

Pritchard, Emily M. Cardigan Priory in the Olden Days ... Illustrated. London, 1904.

Bowen, E.G. The Teifi Valley as a Religious Frontier. Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, Vol VII, No 1, 1972.

See Notes on Church/Chapel Records page

Parish Register;
Baptisms 1654-1959. Marriages 1653-1971 [Banns 1823-75]. Burials 1654-1911 NLW/Cer.RO
Typescript copies of PR CMB 1669-97, 1700 NLW
Bishops Transcripts;
1675-6, 1678-83, 1685-6, 1688, 1701, 1799-1801, 1803, 1806-10, 1812-75 NLW

See parish register data and town cemetery data on FreeReg

Nonconformist Chapels; see Chapels database

Cardigan - on Wikipedia

Old photographs, Cardigan area;  On Ceredigion Archives/Catalogues with photographs, postcards

Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Various landscapes 
• CARDIGAN CASTLE
• Cardigan, various engravings
• Slide of RCAHMW colour oblique aerial photograph of Cardigan Island, taken by C.R. Musson, 26/7/1989.

Anon. Cardigan --- town and liberties. Bye-Gones, 1871-3

Cardigan and the Lower Teifi Valley in Old Photographs. Dyfed C.C. Gloucester, 1989. Re-published in 2000 by Budding Books. ISBN 1-84015-157-9. Here is an index and review by Mary Jane Stephenson.

Kramer, Zia. Cardigan and the River Teifi (NLW's site) Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, Vol VII, No 1, 1972.

Mathias, Idris. Last of the Mwldan. Gomer, Llandysul. (1 85902 428 9).Gomer catalogue 2002;- "Mwldan lies on the lower side of Cardigan town. Once it was the home of sea captains, sailors, fishermen, foundrymen, poachers, preachers and sailmakers. It was the life and soul of Cardigan, those many years ago. " So begins this remarkable and moving memoir by Idris Mathias, one who calls himself the last of the Mwldan because he and his family were among the very last to leave their homes in Foundry Court in the slum clearance of 1937.

Peregrine, DJM. Cardigan's Ancient Borough. Ceredigion, Vol II

Price, M R C. The Whitland and Cardigan Railway. Oakwood, 1975

Sanders, IJ. The Boroughs of Aberystwyth and Cardigan in the early fourteenth century. B. Board. Celtic Stud, Vol XV

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Pigot & Co. South Wales Directory for 1830. Here are some Extracts relating to Cardigan

Pigot & Co. South Wales Directory for 1844. Here are some Extracts relating to Cardigan with the village of St Dogmells and Neighbourhoods

The transcription of the section for Cardigan from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Description of the parish of Cardigan from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.

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

Cardiganshire Families

Griffiths, Ralph.A. The Making of Medieval Cardigan. (NLW's site) Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, Vol XI, No 2, 1990

Harris, Silas M. Our Lady of Cardigan. Llawlyfr Cym. Cered. Llundain, Vol VIII (1952/3)

Lewis, W. J. Gateway to Wales : a History of Cardigan . Carmarthen, 1990. Includes over 120 illustrations, and street maps.

Lloyd and Turner. Cardigan. 1794

O'Mahoney, Cathy. Excavation and Survey at Cardigan Castle (NLW's site) Ceredigion Vol X

Peregrine, D J M Cardigan's ancient borough (NLW's site) Ceredigion Vol II

Roberts, D Hywel E. Almanac y Cymro (NLW's site) Ceredigion XII

Sampson, Aylwin Arthur. Aberteifi (Cardigan). [Buildings,structures.] Welsh/English parallel text. Aberystwyth,Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion,1972

Sanders. I J. The Boroughs of Aberystwyth and Cardigan in the Early Fourteenth Century. Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 1954

Those were the days : a history of Cardigan, the locality and its people. Vol.1 & 2. Cardigan : Cardigan & Tivy-Side Advertiser, 1991/92. An online index to Vol 1 only by Gareth Hicks together with a list of contents of both. There are also commentaries based on some of the material in the books under Cardigan on Not everyone knows this..

 Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• A Public Meeting Town Hall Cardigan 1858 
• Take Notice that the Cardigan Hiring Fair 1861
• Cardigan Gate 183. Toll gate tickets c.1830
• The Newcastle Emlyn to Cardigan stagecoach outside the Tivy-side Inn, Llechryd, in 1906.
• High St Cardigan, Shows a crowd of women in Welsh national dress and the shop of J. Clougher. c 1853
• The arrival of the first Ford Model T at Gwalia motors, Cardigan, 1915

Map book of the Priory Estate, Cardigan, made in 1884. With detailed maps of holdings of the estate, and schedules containing field names and acreages. Pencil notes have been added, usually to indicate parts of the estate which have been sold. Paper and parchment. On Ceredigion Archives/Galleries

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

• Kyle Deeds "Deeds relating to Cardigan and St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, 1537-1804, predominantly of the property of the Weilshe family, 1563-1676, and the Davies family, 1676-1804; ........."

Held at the NLW ;

• Deeds donated by Mrs M. Kyle, largely relating to the Cardigan area, C16-C17, and the Swansea area, C19.

James, Terrence. Excavations at Woolworths, Cardigan (NLW's site) Ceredigion Vol IX

Maynard, David. Excavations at Cardigan: Volk's Bakery 1975 (NLW's site) Ceredigion Vol VII

Parish map (Kain/Oliver)

Map book of the Priory Estate, Cardigan, made in 1884. With detailed maps of holdings of the estate, and schedules containing field names and acreages. Pencil notes have been added, usually to indicate parts of the estate which have been sold. Paper and parchment. On Ceredigion Archives/Galleries

Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Plan of Cardigan drawn by John Speed in 1610 
• Cardigan Bay bar and harbour in Cardigan Shire
• A plan of the parish of St Mary Cardigan in the County of Cardigan

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN186478 (Lat/Lon: 52.08309, -4.664895), Cardigan 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.

Various items  - on the  People's Collection Wales site

• Cardigan Quay, 1890 
• Cardigan Port collection
• Cardigan and Bristol ships in Cardigan, c. 1900
• Shipbuilding in Cardigan, 19th century
• Mercantile Wharf, Cardigan, c. 1860s
• MARGARET LLOYD lost Cardigan Island 25-26 October 1859
• Ships used for transporting lime, Cardigan, 19th century
• Photograph of the lifeboat 'Elisabeth Austin', Cardigan, 19th century

Records for the port of Cardigan are held at Pembrokeshire Archives.

The Port book of the Port of Cardigan in Elizabethan and Stuart Times . Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society Transactions. Vols. VII 1930, & IX 1933

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

• Shipping registers for Cardigan and Pembrokeshire 1824-1992 "The Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen was established by the Merchant Shipping Act 1872, when the Registrar General of Seamen took over responsibility for returns relating to the registration of ships from the Board of Customs' Chief Registrar of Shipping. In Pembrokeshire, the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen recorded merchant ships registered at the port of Cardigan and at the port of Milford Haven......"

Daniel Harton Davies ; Photograph album containing photographs and other details of the wartime career of Sgt. Major Daniel Harton Davies, including his incarceration in a prisoner of war camp in Germany. His letters are to his wife Edyth Anna Davies, of The Eagle, Castle Street, Cardigan. They married in 1915 and their son David Eldred was born in 1918. On Ceredigion Archives/Galleries

Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• The Band of the Cardigan Volunteer Corps waiting at Cilgerran station to welcome Lt. Colby of Ffynnone home from the Boer War, c.1902 
• A letter from the town clerk, on behalf of the mayor of Cardigan, inviting Daniel Horton Davies to lunch with him, 7 January 1919
• A telegram sent by Daniel Horton Davies from Koenbenhavn, Denmark, to his family at the Eagle Inn, Cardigan, 2 December 1918
• A notification form sent to Mrs G. Davies, The Eagle, Castle Street, Cardigan, 16 Feburary, 1918, stating that her husband, D. H. Davies has been reported missing in action 
• 407 Battery , 146 Regiment, Pembroke and Cardigan Yeomanry, Drill hall Cardigan 1939
• 408 Battery , 146 Regiment, Pembroke and Cardigan Yeomanry, Drill hall Aberystwyth 1939
• 407 Battery Aberteifi in Belgium during WWII, 1944  - and various other items
• An article from the Cambrian News and Meirionethshire Standard about the death of Harold Madoc Jones from Cardigan during The First World War.
• Peace proclamation in Cardigan, 1919
• A police/military procession through Cardigan[?], c. 1919

Newspaper extracts

Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• The Cardigan Observer Jan 5 1878 
• The Cardigan Bay Visitor Jun 24 1887
• Poster advertising the sale of newspapers at the Cardigan Mechanics' Institute, 30 December 1888

Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Conti Bros Cardigan, ice-cream van c. 1930s 
• David Wilson, fishmonger's delivery boy photographed in 1905. 
• Photograph taken from an 1894 copy of the Police Review -  Chief Constable Howell Evans of the Cardiganshire Constabulary.
• Round buddle and the Cardigan Foundry Water-wheel
• Man with his coracle on the banks of the Teifi, near Cardigan, 1 June 1952

Edwards, Philip S. The mysterious parliamentary election at Cardigan boroughs in 1547 (NLW's site) Welsh History Review 8

Lloyd-Johnes, H.J. The Cardigan Boroughs Election, 1774 (NLW's site) Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, Vol VII, No 1, 1972.

Thomas, Peter D.G. C18 Elections in the Cardigan Boroughs Constituency (NLW's site) Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, Vol V, No 4, 1967.

Thomas, Peter D.G. The Cardigan Boroughs Election of 1741 (NLW's site) Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, Vol VI, No 1, 1968.
"The legislation of Henry VIII creating the borough constituencies of Wales was a masterpiece of vagueness......... the presumed intention that the borough groupings were to consist of all the 'ancient boroughs' of each county was rarely, if ever, fulfilled...........In Cardiganshire the ancient boroughs were Aberystwyth, Adpar, Cardigan, Lampeter, Llanddewibrefi, and Tregaron........ Evidence (from 1604) of the early composition of the Parliamentary constituency ... shows that Cardigan, Aberystwyth, Tregaron, Trefilan, Lampeter and Adpar had then comprised the constituency.......by the late 17th century Trefilan had disappeared from the list......"

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

• Cardiganshire Board of Guardians Records 1834-1936
  "Records relating to the Cardiganshire Board of Guardians, including Cardigan Union, 1834-1935; Newcastle Emlyn Union, 1916-1925; Lampeter Union, 1871-1930; Tregaron Union, 1912-1929; Aberayron Union, 1854-1922; and Aberystwyth Union, 1878-1936."
• Cardigan Poor Law Union, records 1840-1948

Held at the NLW ;

• Cardigan Borough Order Books, 1653-1907

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

• Cardigan Borough Council Records 1768-1974 (accumulated 1858-1974)
• Cardigan Rural District Council 1923-1934

Here is an extract from The Reports of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of Education in Wales. 1847

Roberts, D Hywel E. Sefydlu ysgol ganolraddol yn Aberteifi, 1890-98 (NLW's site) Ceredigion XIII

Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi : canmlwyddiant ; 1898-1998 (Cardigan Secondary School ; centenary ; 1898-1998). Aberteifi : Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi, 1998

Held at the NLW ;
- Records of Gwyl Fawr Aberteifi, 1952-90.

Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• The Cardigan Choir will hold A Concert 1858
• Town Hall Cardigan Herr Sommer 1852
• Guildhall Cardigan Dramatic Reading of Shakspeare's tragedy of Othello 1865
• Cardigan Scouts Fife & Drum Band
• Painted photograph of Mary Nicholas of Cardigan, wearing purses carrying prize money won for singing at eisteddfodau. She died at the age of sixteen from tuberculosis.

Aberteifi, y dref (Cardigan, the town). Cyngor Sir Dyfed, Adran Llyfrgell,Carmarthen, 1976. Social life and customs 1610-ca 1910

Baylis, M J. A most united fraternity (NLW's site) Ceredigion Vol VII (The Society of Sea Serjeants meets in Cardigan in 1761)