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[[Wales]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]][[Ceredigion]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]Blaenpennal    | [[Wales]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]][[Ceredigion]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]Blaenpennal    | ||
A guide to genealogy in '''Blaenpennal''', with information on where to find birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records; census records; wills; cemeteries; maps; etc.   | |||
'''Blaenpennal''' is a village in [[Ceredigion]], [[Wales]].   | |||
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]].   | |||
=== History  ===  | === History  ===  | ||
"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  | In 1833: "'''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]    | ||
For further information see [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CGN/Blaenpennal/ Blaenpennal] at Genuki.    | |||
==  | == Records  ==  | ||
===  | === Civil Registration  ===  | ||
===  | === Church Records  ===  | ||
===  | === Census Records  ===  | ||
{{British Census|464305}}    | {{British Census|464305}}    | ||
===  | === Probate Records  ===  | ||
==  | == Maps and Gazetteers  ==  | ||
*[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk Vision of Britain]  | *[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5630 Vision of Britain]  | ||
==  | == Web Sites  ==  | ||
[[Category:  | [[Category:Parishes_of_Historic_Cardiganshire]]  | ||
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