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"HÊNLLAN-AMGOED (HÊN-LLAN-AMGOED) a parish, in the union of NARBERTH, lower division of the hundred of DERLLYS, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 7 miles (W.N.W.) from St. Clear's, on the old road from Llanboidy to Narberth; containing, with the chapelry of Eglwys Vair a Chyrig, which supports its own poor, 438 inhabitants, of whom 150 are in the township. This parish, which is situated on the river Tâf, is more than three miles in length, and two in breadth, and is for the most part inclosed and cultivated. The living is a discharged rectory . . . There is a place of worship for Presbyterians. About 40 children of both sexes are instructed in a day school at the expense of their parents, and about 30 gratuitously at a Sunday school . . . The Rev. Nathaniel Rowlands, son of the celebrated Daniel Rowlands, of Llangeitho, was buried at this place; he was chaplain to the Duke of Gordon, and to Lady Huntingdon, and was one of the most popular preachers of his time." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).]
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| Henllan Amgoed Congregational Chapel, Henllan Amgoed |
| Henllan Amgoed Congregational Chapel, Henllan Amgoed |
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
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Parish entry for Henllan Amgoed and Llangan from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by (Archive CD Books).
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Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Aerial photograph of St Canna's Church, Henllan Amgoed, 1992
- Photographs showing a exterior & interior views of Henllan Amgoed Congregational Chapel, taken by Robert Scourfield, 1996.
Griffiths, G. Milwyn. A Visitation of the Archdeaconry of Carmarthen, 1710 National Library of Wales journal. 1974, Summer Vol XVIII/3. Includes the parish of Henllan Amgoed
Owen, Jeremy. Golwg ar y beiau y sydd yn yr hanes a brintiwyd ynghylch pedair neu bum mlynedd i nawr, ym mherthynas i'r rhwygiad a wnaethpwyd yn eglwys Henllan yn y blynyddoedd 1707, 1708, 1709, (Caerfyrddin, 1732-1733), xi, 87p. Hefyd: Golwg ar y beiau gan Jeremy Owen (1732-3), golygwyd gan R.T. Jenkins, (Caerdydd, 1950), 99p.
Tri chanmlwyddiant Eglwys Annibynnol Henllan: 1697-1997, Henllan, Eglwys Annibynnol Henllan Amgoed (1997) 39 p. ill, ports.
Dyfed FHS have photographs and data relating to various churches and chapels on their site
PR CMB prior to 1812 were reported in 1831 to be 'completely decayed' by dampness, whereas the imprecise return of 1933 suggests there were then extant records beginning in 1787 now apparently lost. Diocesan records suggest that c1790 the registers went back to 1754.
Parish registers: Marriages (1826-1969) are at the Carmarthenshire Record Office.
Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1671-2, 1675, 1678-84, 1686-7, 1693, 1695, 1697-9, 1702-3, 1707-8, 1713, 1716-18, 1720-2, 1724-30, 1732-59, 1762-3, 1768-70, 1772-7, 1780-1800, 1802-16, 1818-21, 1824-5, 1827-33, 1835-9, 1846-7, 1849, 1855, 1864, 1866-7) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Marriage index for this parish - see Dyfed Marriages, 1813-1837, Vol. 14 - Derllys Hundred (Dyfed Family History Society, c1989).
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
Nonconformist Chapels:
- Henllan (Independent, 1697), Henllan Amgoed parish Births (148-1837) and burials (1785-1829) PRO RG4/2516, LDS 828111, IGI - includes records for Trinity (Llanboidy); notes including baptisms (1746-60) NLW Ms 5460 See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg On Dyfed FHS SN17942008 Meeting house/chapel built 1697, rebuilt/enlarged 1724 & 1830 Coflein Shown as still open on the Union of Welsh Independents site (Dec 2006)
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 this chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation by Maureen Saycell (Feb 2009)
The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales., byJones, I.G. & Williams, D. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. These statistics for this parish are extracted from this book which in turn got them from the 1851 census itself;
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The transcription of the section for Henllan Amgoed from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Henllan Amgoed to another place.
Lloyd, Sir John E., (Ed.). A History of Carmarthenshire (2 vols.), Cardiff, London Carmarthenshire Society (1935, 1939). Extracts from this book can be accessed on some parish pages, see here for this parish
Plan of Henllan Amgoed parish in the County of Carmarthen - on the People's Collection Wales site
Parish map(Kain/Oliver)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN176201 (Lat/Lon: 51.849959, -4.65005), Henllan Amgoed which are provided by:
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Places, villages, farms etc within Henllan Amgoed 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 Katherine Hocking)
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