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Church History information for Capel Bethel Sunday School And Vestry, Penygroes and places above it in the hierarchy

Capel Bethel Sunday School And Vestry, Penygroes

Llanllyfni

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.

Llanllyfni Parish; Statistics; Area 7521 acres; Population 995 males, 1015 females, total 2010

  • Llanllyfni Parish Church    "Consecrated from time immemorial, rebuilt and enlarged in the reign of Henry 7th"      Attendance - morning 60, afternoon 30     Services in Welsh      John Jones, Minister
  • Tyn Lon, Babtist           Erected more than 60 years ago              Attendance - usual - morning 20, afternoon 20           No Sunday School kept              Informant; Rowland Jones, Village
  • Soar, Penygroes, Independents                  Erected 1834         Attendance - morning 49, afternoon 86, evening 120          Samuel Jones, Minister, Penygroes
  • Pen y Groes, Calvinistic Methodist            Erected 1834            Attendance - morning 135 scholars, afternoon 161, evening 174         William Owen, Deacon, Penbrynmawr, Llanllyfni
  • Ebenezer, Baptist               Erected 1826           Attendance - morning 60, afternoon 50 scholars, evening 82                  Robert Jones, Baptist Minister, Llanllyfni
  • Salem, Calvinistic Methodist                  Erected 1812           Attendance - morning 149, afternoon 225 scholars, evening 275                    Robert Parry, Elder, Tynllan, Llanllyfni
  • Ysgoldy Mynydd Llanllyfni, Calvinistic Methodist           Erected c 1827          Attendance - morning 150 scholars, afternoon 140, evening 55        Richard Roberts, Elder, Bod Ychain, nr Llanllyfni

        Salem Chapel, Llanllyfni Records 1813-1921 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
        "3 books recording the names of Sunday preachers and other meetings held at Salem Chapel. Also, a list of preachers who served Salem from 1813-1864 and a history of the beginnings of Methodism in Tal-y-sarn dated 1921"

        • 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 Talysarn  chapel (in Welsh) - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (June 2009)         Also Nazareth chapel        Also Drwsycoed chapel       Also Penygroes chapel       Also Llanllyfni chapel  - with translations by Eleri Rowlands (July 2009)

        Various items - on the People's Collection Wales  site

        • ST RHEDYW'S CHURCH, LLANLLYFNI 
        • SALEM CHAPEL, LLANLLYFNI
        • PENCHWAREL SUNDAY SCHOOL (CALVINISTIC METHODIST)
        • BETHANIA BAPTIST CHAPEL, TAL-Y-SARN

        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