Silian

Some church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by I.G Jones, & D. Williams. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. The names are those of the informants

• Silian A Chapel annexed to Llanwnnen David Williams, Vicar
• see Nonconformist chapels below

Parish entry for Llanwnen with Silian from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).

• St Lucia & St Sulien (Silian)
• Incumbent and Curates; J H Davies
• Rural Deanery of Lampeter
• Acreage 2,545 & 2,179 ; Population 445

Bethel Baptist chapel, Tanygraig

• Bethel Welsh Baptist Chapel, Tanygraig SN57775083 Started 1654, first chapel built 1735, present chapel built 1831, renovated 1952. Members; 80 in 1840 Records; see Records of Aberduar, Llanybydder 1751-1857 NLW Still open 1998 (The Chapels Recording Project in Wales & Rawlins - see Notes on Church/Chapel Records page )
• Bethel Baptist Erected about the year 1833 Timothy Davies, Deacon (1851 Religious census)

• Photograph on Dyfed FHS
• On contacts list on Ceredigion Library site (2007)

The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales., by Jones, I.G. & Williams, D. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. These statistics for this parish or chapelry are extracted from this book which in turn got them from the 1851 census itself;

• Area 2182 acres; Population 154 males, 181 females, total 335

With the kind permission of the publisher, these selected extracts below are taken from " The History of Cardiganshire" by S R Meyrick, 1810, specifically the reprint of the 1907 imprint published by Stephen Collard in July 2000.

• "Formerly only a chapel of ease, is now a parish, and adjoins those of Lampeter and Bettws Bleddrws."
• "Two shares of the tithes belong to the canons of St David's, the remainder to the vicar."
• "The three last incumbents [of the parish church] were the Rev. Mr David Williams ; the Rev. Mr Evans ; and the Rev. Mr Evan Williams."

Places, villages, farms etc within Silian 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)

• Silian (70); Afon Denys; Cwm-mawr; Drem-ddu; Dyffryn; Gelli-gwenyn; Glan-Denys; Gorwydd; Nant Creuddyn; Pant-coy; Perth-hela; Pont Creuddyn; Silian (village);