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

Llanengan

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.

Llanengan Parish; Statistics; Area 4354 acres; Population 508 males, 601 females, total 1109

  •  Llanengan Parish Church    Restored 1847/8       Attendance - morning 56, afternoon 30 + 29 scholars    Services in Welsh       Henry Richards, Curate
  • Abersoch Chapel, Independents       Erected before 1829                Attendance - morning 40 scholars, afternoon 100, evening 60             William Jones, Manager, Draper, Llanengan
  • Bwlchy Toccyn, Independent         Erected c 1798              Attendance - morning 65 scholars, afternoon 44, evening 80              Evan Jones, Deacon, Caepwllhalog
  • Bwlch, Calvinistic Methodists           Erected 1806           Attendance - morning 210 scholars, afternoon 277, evening 240           William Benjamin, Deacon
  • Cilau Chapel, Calvinistic Methodist          Erected before 1820           Attendance - morning 86, afternoon 87 scholars, evening 111             Thomas Humphreys, Elder Deacon, Tyddyn (illegible)

        Evan Evans, Llanengan Diaries 1846-1900 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
        "..... author of a book on the history of Methodism in Llanengan, published in 1873 entitled, Methodistiaeth Llanengan : sef, hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd yn mhlwyf Llanengan ...."

        • 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 Abersoch chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation        Also Bwlchtocyn  - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Jan 2011)

        LLANENGAN PARISH CHURCH;ST ENGAN'S CHURCH - 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