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"BLAEN-PENAL, a chapelry in the parish of LLANDEWY-BREVI , lower division of the hundred of PENARTH, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 10 1/2 miles (N. by E.) from Lampeter, containing 543 inhabitants. It is situated at the extremity of the beautiful vale of Aëron which river rises from a mountain near the village, in which and the surrounding district are several pleasing and ornamental residences. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St.David's, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Perpetual Curate of Llandewy-Brevi. The chapel is dedicated to St. David. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. This chapelry separately supports its own poor : the average annual expenditure is £82.4." [From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]
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Accounts book for Blaenpennal Co-op 1940-45 - on the People's Collection Wales site
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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.
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Parish entry from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
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St David's Church - photograph on Dyfed FHS
See Chapels database
Blaenpennal Calvinistic Methodist Chapel - on the People's Collection Wales site
See Notes on Church/Chapel Records page
Parish Register;
Baptisms 1813-1977. Marriages 1837-1971. Burials 1830-1986 NLW/Cer.RO
Entries for CMB before 1812 with Llanddewibrefi. PR CM 1797-1812 recorded in 1831 seemingly lost.
Bishops Transcripts;
1813-19, 1823-35, 1850-77, 1879,1882, 1885-7 NLW
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
I.G.I; Baptisms 1813-35,Marriages 1813-35
Nonconformist Chapels; see Chapels database
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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;
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With the kind permission of the publisher, these selected extracts below are taken from "The History of Cardiganshire" by S R Meyrick, 1810, specifically the reprint of the 1907 imprint published by Stephen Collard in July 2000.
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"In 1847 the "Tamerlane" left Aberystwyth with 462 passengers and crew.
The passengers were mainly from the parts of east Cardiganshire, such as Lledrod, Mynydd-bach, and Tai-hirion-y-rhos" (Tai-hirion, near Blaenpennal).
The newspaper, The Welshman, identified the male passengers as 75 farmers, 65 labourers, 13 carpenters, 17 tailors, 6 blacksmiths, 5 hatters, and 10 miners, the latter probably came from the lead mining district north east of Mynydd Bach. "
The transcription of the section for Blaenpennal from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Blaenpennal to another place.
The Welsh dialect of Blaenpennal, Ceredigion - on the People's Collection Wales site
Parish map (Kain/Oliver)
The township or chapelry of Blaenpennal in the parish of Llanddewybrefi in the County of Cardigan - on the People's Collection Wales site
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN629646 (Lat/Lon: 52.262426, -4.010303), Blaenpennal which are provided by:
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Places, villages, farms etc within Blaenpennal parish 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)
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Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Haycart and horses at Yr Hendre, overlookingY Felin, Blaenpennal
- Sheep Shearing Day in Blaenpennal nd
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Blaenpennal Parish Council Records 1894-1987
A photograph of the rural tradition of firing guns before a wedding, in order to banish bad spirits. This wedding was in Blanpennal chapel in the early 1960's. - on the People's Collection Wales site