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"MYDRIM (MEIDRUM), a parish, partly in the hundred of ELVET, but chiefly in the higher division of the hundred of DERLLYS, union and county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 8 miles (W.) from Carmarthen; containing 1110 inhabitants. This parish . . . contains by admeasurement about 6000 acres of tolerably good land, easily convertible into arable or pasture, being sometimes under corn, and at others under grass; the produce is chiefly wheat, oats, and barley; there is not much timber, but what there is consists mostly of oak and ash. The surrounding scenery is pleasingly diversified, being enlivened by the course of the rivers which flow through the parish . . . Coal has been supposed to exist, and an attempt to procure it has been made with good prospects of success. A fair is held on March 12th. . . The church, dedicated to St. David, is an ancient edifice of Norman architecture . . . There are places of worship for Baptists and Calvinistic Methodists . . ." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).]
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| St David, Meidrim, Church in Wales |
| Gibeon Welsh Independent Chapel, Bancyfelin, Meidrim |
| St David, Meidrim, Church in Wales |
| Gibeon Welsh Independent Chapel, Bancyfelin, Meidrim |
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 from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by (Archive CD Books).
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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 Meidrim
Dyfed FHS have photographs and data relating to various churches and chapels on their site
Parish registers: Christenings (1653-1994), Marriages (1653-1979) and Burials (1653-1988) are at the Carmarthenshire Record Office.
Copy ts PR index CB (1813-75) M (1654-1875) at NLW and Carm.RO
Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1671-2, 1675-8, 1681, 1683-7, 1690-1, 1693-5, 1698-1700, 1703, 1705, 1708-9, 1715-18, 1721, 1724-96, 1803-57) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
An Index to Christenings (1813-1875), Marriages (1654-1875) and Burials (1813-1875) is available on microfiche from Dyfed FHS.
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:
- CWM BAPTIST CHURCH, CWM - built in 1892. coflein
- Bethel (Calvinistic Methodist, bef 1760), Mydrim village SN28922097 Built c1790, rebuilt 1837, 1854 & 1903 Still open 1998 Coflein Bethel Meidrim CM chapel is still open in 2006
- Gibeon (Independent, 1841), Bronygaer / Banyfelin SN30871909 Built 1841, rebuilt/modified 1868 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 Gareth Hicks (Dec 2008)
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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Carter Knuth, Jill. The relationship between Theophilus Thomas Rees and the Rev. Theophilus Rees. The former from Meidrim parish, emigrated in 1796 to the USA , ended up in Granville County, the latter also emigrated from Wales to Baltimore in 1796 dying a few months later. Dyfed FHS journal 5/6, April 1996, p 239-242.
The transcription of the section for Mydrim from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Mydrim / Meidrim to another place.
Evans, J. Wyn. Meidrum: some sidelights on the church and parish. Carmarthenshire Antiquary 29 (1993), p. 13-22Lloyd, 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.
PENYRHEOL Mydrim …..its owners and their story
A map of the parish of Mydrim, Carmarthenshire - on the People's Collection Wales site
Parish map(Kain/Oliver)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN308205 (Lat/Lon: 51.857216, -4.457874), Mydrim / Meidrim which are provided by:
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Places, villages, farms etc within Mydrim 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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