Llanwnws, Cardiganshire, Wales Genealogy
Guide to Llanwnws, Cardiganshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: civil registration, census records, and parish register transcripts.
History[edit | edit source]
Llanwnws is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Ceredigion, Wales. In comprises the townships of Gwnnws Usaf and Gwnnws Uchaf.
Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Cardiganshire and, between 1974 and 1996 in the County of Dyfed. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Ceredigion.
LLANWNWS (LLAN-WNWS / GWNNWS), a parish, comprising the townships of GWNNWS-ISÂV or Lower, and GWNNWS UCHÂV,or Upper, which separately maintain their own poor, in the upper division of the hundred of ILAR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 11 miles (S.E. by S ) from Aberystwith, and 15 ( N.N.E.) from Lampeter. This parish, which extends nearly fourteen miles in length, and, upon the average, three miles in breadth, comprises a wide tract nearly in the centre of the county, bounded on the north by the river Ystwith, and on the south by the Teivy. The church, dedicated to St. Gwnnws, is a small edifice, consisting of a nave and chancel, built in 1829. Four Sunday schools are held, two of them in connexion with the Established Church, one with the Calvinistic Methodists, and one with the Baptist denomination.[1]
For more information see Gwnnws at Genuki.
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| Civ Reg District | Tregaron (1881) |
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| Hundred | Ilar |
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Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Parish Registers[edit | edit source]
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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 Llanwnws was DATE.
Nonconformist Chapel Records[edit | edit source]
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Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
The Civil Registration District for Llanwnws is DATESANDNAMESCIVREG.
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]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1849), pp. 157-165. Adapted. Date accessed: 21 January 2014.