Newcastle

Bridgend County Borough Council/ Library Service / Local and Family History Centre - one of six centres in Britain that hold the GRO indexes. They have started to index births, mariages & deaths  from the Glamorgan Gazette and these indexes (1866 -) are available for downloading online in pdf format.

Here is a substantial reading list of books which relate to Glamorgan, either county or parish.

An on-line index to the book Old Bridgend in Photographs, published by Stewart Williams, Barry [1978] has been provided by Huw Daniel.

Chapels Database - a list of all known non-conformist chapels or other non-Anglican religions in the parish

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for photographs of various churches/chapels in this parish

See John Ball's site Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection for a photograph/data re St Illtud's Church, Newcastle

See John Ball's site Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection for a photograph/data re St Illtud's Church

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

See Bap/Mar/Bur data on  FreeReg

The church is dedicated to St. Illtyd, and is in the Benefice of Newcastle. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference SS903801.

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Newcastle Ecclesiastical Parish records              " ........ including copied parish registers of baptisms, 1745-1943; marriage, 1755-1900; burials, 1764-1897; banns, 1755-1881"

Modern Parishes & Chapels of Ease :-

• All Saints, Penyfai
• St. John, Tondu - Chapel of ease to Newcastle, formed into a parish in 1923

The following Religious Institutions are covered in the Mormon International Genealogical Index (IGI) :-

• Newcastle, St. Illtyd - Christenings (BT's), 1813-1876
• Newcastle, Bridgend, Ruhamah Particular Baptist - Births, 1799-1837

Newcastle Hill and St Illtyd's Church by Brian Wagstaffe

• Geograph
• Flickr

Transcript of name listing for Bridgend, and district, for the years:-

The transcription of the section for Newcastle from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Description of parish from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Newcastle to another place.

Some of the hamlets, towns and villages within this parish

Description and image of Newcastle Castle at www.castlewales.com by Jeff Thomas

This diagram shows the position of this parish within the county of Glamorgan - click on this to see a full size diagram of the county

Parish map (Kain/Oliver)

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SS888816 (Lat/Lon: 51.52265, -3.60476), Newcastle which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Places, villages, farms etc within Newcastle as shown on the online parish map from the CD of Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. (Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R.). (Extracted by Gareth Hicks)

• Newcastle Higher (93); Aberkenfig (village); Angletown; Brookland; Court Colman; Croes-caedu; Fountain; GWR; Mental Hospital; Nant y Gedd; Pant; Park Fm.; Park Slip Colliery; Pen-y-fai; Pen-y-fai Common; Tondu (village); Ty-cribwr; Ty mawr; Ty'n-y-garn.
• Newcastle Lower (94); Bryntirion; Castle; Cefn Glas; Cefn Glas Ho.; Mill; Newcastle (village); Ogmore (Ogwr) Valley; Park Fm.; Pwll Clement; Ystrad Fawr.

Newspaper extracts

The Population of Newcastle was as follows, and a more detailed breakdown is available.

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Newcastle and Ogmore Petty Sessional Division records           "Minutes books, 1836-1859; court registers, 1832-1921; court registers (Bridgend), 1921-1970; court registers (Maesteg), 1921-1970; juvenile court registers, 1933-1983; justices oath book (Newcastle division), 1901-1910; register of warrants, 1919-1921; register of process, 1924-1948; register of victualling houses, 1866-1867; register of licences, 1872-1883; list of habitual drunkards, 1903-1912; examination of paupers (settlement), 1829-1843; certificates of conviction, 1880; court registers (Bridgend and Maesteg), 1970-1983; registers of licences, 1959-1962; magistates year book, 1986; matrimonial court register, 1969-1970; court register for non-payment of fines, 1936-1950"  
• Newcastle Civil Parish records     " ............. including vestry minutes book, 1848-1904; churchwardens' accounts, 1895-1896; Newcastle Higher highways surveyor's account book, 1768-1855; Newcastle Higher overseers of the poor rate book, 1839; Newcastle Higher parish council minutes books, 1895-1959; parochial committee minutes books, 1915-1937; sub-committee minutes books, 1911-1927; annual parish meeting minutes book, 1894-1934; miscellaneous plans, c1919; copy of tithe plan and apportionment, c1840 [copied 1980]"

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Newcastle Higher School Board records      " ......... comprising minute book, 1898-1903; cash book, 1899-1903"