Brecon, Breconshire, Wales Genealogy

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Brecon Parish
Jurisdictions
County bef 1974	add here
County 1 Apr 1974-31 Mar 1996	add here
County 1 Apr 1996 -	add here
Civ Reg District	Brecknock (1881)
Reg Sub-district	add here
Probate Court	add here
Diocese	St. David's (1864)
Rural Deanery	Brecon (1864)
Chapelry	add here
Poor Law Union	add here
Hundred	Merthyr-Cynog
Province	Canterbury (1864)
Hamlets	add here
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Brecon

History[edit | edit source]

BRECKNOCK, a borough and market town, and the head of a union, having exclusive jurisdiction, locally in the hundreds of Merthyr, Pencelly, and Devynock, in the county of Brecknock, South Wales, 171 miles (W. by N.) from London, on the road to Milford. Brecknock is delightfully situated at the confluence of the rivers Honddû and Tarell with the Usk. There re two churches in the town. The parish of St. John the Evangelist, which includes St. Mary's chapelry and the parish of St. David. The area of the St. John's portion of the parish is 2932 acres. The church, which was the chapel of the priory founded here by Bernard Newmarch, occupies a beautiful eminence on the western bank of the river Honddû, on the north side of the town, near the Priory woods. The area of the parish of St. David is 2880 acres. The church, a small edifice of one aisle, with a tower at the west end, is situated in the suburb of Llanvaes, on the south side of the river Usk. St. Mary's chapel, which was anciently parochial, is situated in the centre of the town. In the town are two or three places of worship for Baptists, and one each for English Independents, Welsh Independents, Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, English Wesleyan and Welsh Wesleyan Methodists, and Roman Catholics.

The living of St. David's, or Llanvaes, is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at £5. 15. 7½., and endowed with £400 private benefaction and £400 royal bounty; net income, £160; patron, the Archdeacon of Brecknock. The area of the parish is 2880 acres. The church, a small edifice of one aisle, with a tower at the west end, is situated in the suburb of Llanvaes, on the south side of the river Usk.^[1]

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Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Parish Registers[edit | edit source]

Church of Wales Chapels and Parish Registers
Parish	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
PARISH NAME	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
PARISH NAME	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]	[URL YEARS]
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Bishop's Transcripts
Bishop Transcripts: Christenings, Marriages, Burials and Christenings and Burials	[URL YEARS]

Parish Chest[edit | edit source]

Vestry minutes (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Church warden accounts (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Tithe Records[edit | edit source]

The tithe agreement date for Brecon was DATE.

Nonconformist Chapel Records[edit | edit source]

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