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"GOYTREY, a parish in the hundred of Upper Abergavenny, county Monmouth, 5 miles N.E. of Pont-y-Pool, and 5 S. of Abergavenny, its post town. It is situated in the vicinity of the river Usk, and on the Brecon canal, which has a wharf here. The West Midland railway passes in the neighbourhood. The scenery is very beautiful, and a large portion of the surface is woodland. There are quarries of lime and building stone, and tiles are manufactured. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff, value £227. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There are places of worship belonging to the Baptists and Wesleyans. The parochial charities produce about £1 per annum." [Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
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- Rooke, Marion L D Abraham Jeremiah, Harp Maker, 1825-1886; What truth in a family memory ? Gwent Local History. No. 90 2001 Welsh Journals Online
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 given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants. Check with Gwent RO to see what extant records are held, and possible names of chapels/churches established after 1851. Goytrey Parish; Statistics; Area; 3332 acres; Population 300 males, 254 females, total 554
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Goytrey Church. Woman in Welsh costume holding a baby, people going to church. - on the People's Collection Wales site
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[Details as published in The Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 1986 - present location/availability may vary]Goetre, St Peter's Church - records with the Gwent RO Baptisms Marriages Burials 1695-1728, 1732-1960 1695-1728, 1732-1971 1695-1728, 1732-1957 Bishops Transcripts 1696, 1725-1865, 1899 - records with the NLW
- Goetre - on wikipedia
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- Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348. Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county.
- Parish of Goytrey - on the People's Collection Wales site
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