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Church History information for Llanbeblig and places above it in the hierarchy

Llanbeblig

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Llanbeblig Parish and Carnarvon Borough; Statistics; Area 6792 acres; Population 4641 males, 5242 females, total 9883

  • Llanbeblig Parish Church                Attendance - average - morning 535, evening 624      Services in Welsh and English              Owen Jones, Churchwarden
  • St Mary's Chapel, Caernarvon         "Garrison Chapel attached to the military castle of Caernarvon built in the reign of Edward 2nd"          Attendance - morning 305, evening 290            Hugh P Manley, Warden
  • Carnarvonshire County Prison Chapel          Licensed before 1800     Attendance - average- afternoon 30          John Dixon, Governor
  • Twthill Free or Ragged School     "Schoolroom licensed in 1850 as an additional Place of worship"     Attendance - average - 140         Robert Williams, Curate of Twthill, District of Caernarvon
  • Waenfawr Licensed Schoolroom             "Licensed in 1835 as an additional place of worship"           Attendance - average - afternoon 55              Owen Jones, Churchwarden
  • Glandwr, Bank Quay, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints        Erected 1850          Room in a dwelling house            Attendance - morning 24, afternoon 26, evening 58             Morgan Jones, Minister; Robert Lloyd, Bank Quay
  • Pendref, Independents          Erected before 1800           Attendance - morning 348, afternoon 221, evening 671              David Roberts, Minister, Brynsaint
  • Moriah, Welsh Calvinistic Methodists           Erected before 1800          Attendance - morning 641, evening 921           "The present large Chapel was built in the year 1826 at the cost of above £4000. It was in lieu but not on the site of another which existed before the year 1800"            Wm Parry Williams, Elder, Bridge St
  • Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Wesleyan Methodists          Erected 1834         Attendance - morning 30, evening 30              William H Lewis, Minister, Carnarvon
  • Ebenezer, Wesleyan Methodists                Erected 1826          Attendance - morning 289, evening 509           George Gregory, Local Preacher, Skinner St, Carnarvon
  • Joppa, Snowden St, Independents          Erected 1841          Attendance - average - general congregation 150, scholars 90            William Parry, Deacon, Wellington Terrace
  • Caersalem, Baptist               Erected 1822        Attendance - morning 90, afternoon 98 scholars, evening 290          William Richards, Minister
  • Enegedi Chapel, Welsh Calvinistic Methodist           Erected 1842            Attendance - morning 432 scholars, afternoon 557 scholars, evening 678 scholars                "A Temperance Meeting is held every Sunday in this Chapel at half past 4 o'clock which is very numerously attended"            Robert Evans, Elder, Grocer etc, Pool St
  • Moriha, Waun-fawr, Independents           Erected 1829            Attendance - morning 47, afternoon 85 scholars, evening 58             Owen Prichard, Deacon
  • Bethel, Waenfawr, Calvinistic Methodist                Erected before 1800          Attendance - morning 281 scholars, afternoon 402, evening 444           Morgan Jones, Deacon, Hafod(olu), Waunfawr
  • Bontnewydd Chapel, Calvinistic Methodist          Erected 1840              Attendance - morning 125, afternoon 87 scholars, evening 199             Ellis Griffith, Deacon

        Jones, G. O., papurau (papers) - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales

        • "Includes; ..... original material relating to the parish of Llanbeblig and its churches, 1921-1982, including lists of clergy and officials and statements of account, 1926-1982, annual financial reports, 1941-1945, and miscellaneous letters, 1921-1976; books and pamphlets, some by G. O. Jones, on religion and local church history, 1954-1980......"

        Llanbeblig churchyard -  on the Carnarvon Traders site

        Plan of Caersalem Chapel (Baptist), Garnon St, Llanbeblig - on the People's Collection Wales site

        • Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for Waunfawr chapel (in Welsh )  - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Sept 2011)

        A view of St. Peblig's church, Caernarfon - on the People's Collection Wales site

          Caernarvonshire

          Church Plans Online - the Lambeth Palace Library holds a database of the Incorporated Church Building Society's images of the plans of various churches (use the onsite search facility)

          Welsh Chapels & Churches

          Gwynedd Family History Society  have a map of the ecclesiastical parishes of Caernarvonshire (Publications) on which there are links to photographs of some parish churches.

          Wales

          The Churchwardens' Accounts of England and Wales   The My Parish group are creating a searchable national database of all surviving churchwardens’ accounts from the earliest known (c.1300) to c.1850. This resource, although incomplete as yet, will be updated regularly as they continue to collect data

          Welsh Chapels & Churches This is an index ONLY to the Chapels and Churches which have photographs on Jill Muir's Welsh Chapels and Churches site

          Church Plans Online - the Lambeth Palace Library holds a database of the Incorporated Church Building Society's images of the plans of various churches (use the onsite search facility)

          Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru. Rees, Thomas & Thomas, John.1873 - here is a listing of the NAMES of chapels/places from each county's contents page from the CD of this 4 volume book published by Archive CD Books. There are also a complete extract of the chapel histories for 9 of the 14 Welsh counties -  in Welsh, many with translations .

          The Story of Non Conformity in Wales  - Addoldai Cymru (Welsh Religious Buildings Trust) is a charity set up to take into ownership a selection of redundant chapels that are historically and/or architecturally significant to the story of chapel building and Nonconformity in Wales and that are valuable to their local communities.

          Theological Colleges attended by Welsh ministers and priests. An exercise to discover which theological colleges Welsh nonconformist ministers and Anglican church priests attended in Wales (and  England).

          The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 - "launched in 1999 and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century........."

          Charles Surman's biographical card index of Congregational ministers   .........
          "was given to Dr Williams's Library in 1960. The Surman Index Online makes the contents available electronically via the internet for the first time. The index includes the names of about 32,000 ministers, and, where known, their dates, details of their education, ministries or other employment, together with the sources used. It covers the period from the mid-seventeenth century to 1972, and though it focuses on England and Wales, it includes Congregational ministers serving abroad provided they trained or served as ministers in Britain. Although intended as an index of Congregational ministers, it also gives details of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Presbyterians."

          Unitarian Obituaries 1798 to date  - The obituaries were published in journals which are held in the library at Harris Manchester College.

          A listing of JONES entries from the clergymen's database on Crockford's Clerical Directory of 1885. Compiled by Gareth Hicks from the CD published by Archive CD Books.

          The Church in Wales - structure

          Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 9 - The Welsh cathedrals (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids). On the British History Online site

          Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 11 - The Welsh dioceses (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids). On the British History Online site

          Welsh Abbeys and other Religious Sites - information and photographs provided by Jeffrey L. Thomas.

          Independent Chapels of Wales: History Books and Pamphlets        On the NLW's site

          The Baptist Union of Great Britain site

          Quakers in Britain (then search on Wales)

          Coleg Trefeca - A centre for lay training, conferences and retreats owned by the Presbyterian Church of Wales.  Also Coleg y Bala, the children and youth centre

          National Synod of Wales The National Synod of Wales of the United Reformed Church, is one of thirteen Synods that cover England, Wales and Scotland.

          The UK Church Directory Information on 35,000 Christian churches and chapels

          See also under Religion and Religious Life below

          UK and Ireland