Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales Genealogy
Guide to Cardiff, Glamorgan ancestry, family history, and genealogy: civil registration, census records, and parish register transcripts.
History[edit | edit source]
Cardiff (Welsh: Caerdydd) is the capital city of Wales.
Archaeological evidence from sites in and around Cardiff: the St Lythans burial chamber, near Wenvoe (about four miles (6.4 km) west, south west of Cardiff city center); the Tinkinswood burial chamber, near St Nicholas (about six miles (10 km) west of Cardiff city center, the Cae'rarfau Chambered Tomb, Creigiau (about six miles (10 km) north west of Cardiff city center, and the Gwern y Cleppa Long Barrow, near Coedkernew, Newport (about eight and a quarter miles (13.5 km) north east of Cardiff city center, demonstrates that people had settled in the area by at least around 6,000 years ago.
Until the Roman conquest of Britain, Cardiff was part of the territory of the Silures – a Celtic British tribe that flourished in the Iron Age – whose territory included the areas that would become known as Breconshire, Monmouthshire and Glamorgan.
Little is known about the fort and civilian settlement in the period between the Roman departure from Britain and the Norman Conquest. The settlement probably shrank in size and may even have been abandoned.
In 1081 William I, King of England, began work on the castle keep within the walls of the old Roman fort. Cardiff Castle has been at the heart of the city ever since.
In 1536, the Act of Union between England and Wales led to the creation of the shire of Glamorgan, and Cardiff was made the county town. It also became part of Kibbor hundred.
In 1793, John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute was born. He would spend his life building the Cardiff docks and would later be called "the creator of modern Cardiff".
King Edward VII granted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Roman Catholic Cathedral in 1916.
The city was proclaimed capital city of Wales on 20 December 1955, by a written reply by the Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George. Caernarfon had also vied for this title.[1][2][3]
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| Jurisdictions | |
| County bef 1974 | COUNTY |
| County 1 Apr 1974-31 Mar 1996 | COUNTY |
| County 1 Apr 1996 - | COUNTY |
| Civ Reg District | Cardiff (1881) |
| Reg Sub-district | SUBDIST |
| Probate Court | PROBATECOURT |
| Diocese | Llandaff (1864) |
| Rural Deanery | Llandaff, Upper (1864) |
| Chapelry | CHAPELRY |
| Poor Law Union | DATESPOORLAW |
| Hundred | HUNDRED |
| Province | Canterbury (1864) |
| Hamlets | HAMLETS |
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Resources[edit | edit source]
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 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 Cardiff was DATE.
Nonconformist Chapel Records[edit | edit source]
XXXX-XXXX denotes that the information has not been compiled yet.
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Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
The Civil Registration District for Cardiff is DATES AND NAMES CIV REG.
Estates[edit | edit source]
Genealogies[edit | edit source]
Medieval Community Trees[edit | edit source]
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Visit the England and Wales Poor Law Records page for more information.
Published Sources[edit | edit source]
Record Compilations[edit | edit source]
Research Facilities[edit | edit source]
Archives[edit | edit source]
Libraries[edit | edit source]
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Websites[edit | edit source]
- Cardiff Genealogy at FamilySearch
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Cardiff," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff, accessed 15 - 19 October, 2016.
- ↑ Cardiff City Council, "Cardiff Glamorgan," website, https://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ENG/Home/Pages/default.aspx, accessed 17 - 19 October 2016
- ↑ Local Histories of Britain, "Cardiff Glamorgan, website, http://www.localhistories.org/Cardiff.html, accessed 18 - 19 October 2016