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Quakers Yard in the Parish of Llanfabon

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"QUAKERS-YARD, a village in the E of Glamorgan; on the river Taff at the influx of the Bargoed, adjacent to the Taff Vale Extension railway, at the junction of the branch to Hirwain, 7½ miles S S E of Merthyr-Tydvil. Ittook its name from an old burying-place of Quakers; ..." [From John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) on Vision of Britain]

Business and Commerce Records

Quakers Yard Gas Company
[1878-1949: memorandum of association, certificate of incorporation, minutes, accounts, agreements, plans
[Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]

Cemeteries

Overturned headstones in Beechgrove Church cemetery at Quaker's Yard, Edwardsville, following the 1913 tornado. - on the People's Collection Wales site

Church Records

For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office and/or West Glamorgan Archives

Non Conformist Registers Deposited
Chapel	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials	OS Map Ref	Deposited
Horeb, Wesleyan	1837-1906	-	-	ST 09829661	NLW
Horeb, Wesleyan	1906-1933	-	-	ST 09829661	GRO

GRO - Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff
NLW - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Description and Travel

Quaker's Yard on Alan George's site

Various landscapes - on the People's Collection Wales site

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Directories

Transcript of name listing for Pontypridd, and district, from Commercial and Trade Directories, for the years:-

1880	(Slaters Directory)

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English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
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Schools

Quaker's Yard Truant School on a camping holiday, 1920 - on the People's Collection Wales site