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"BEGELLY (BUGELI), a parish, in the union of and hundred of NARBERTH, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 5 miles (S. by E.) from Narberth, on the road to Tenby; containing, with the chapelry of Williamston, which supports its own poor, 1159 inhabitants. The substratum of the soil in this parish is coal, of excellent quality, and in great request for the drying of malt and hops by the proprietors of breweries and distilleries. . . The church is an ancient structure, in the early style of English architecture, with a lofty tower, and is pleasantly situated near Begelly Hall, by the trees surrounding which it is partly concealed. The chapel of Williamston is a rude structure without a tower, standing in the hamlet of that name. The parsonage-house is situated on part of a stratum of coal, which has been wrought all round it, and, if the excavation had been continued, it would have endangered the stability of the building. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. Here is a day school, in which from 20 to 30 children are instructed at the expense of their parents; and there are two Sunday schools conducted gratuitously, and in one of which, in connection with the Established Church, are about 220 children; and in the other, which belongs to the Calvinistic Methodists, are about 25. . ." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).]
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Nonconformist Burials in the Begelly & St Issells area - databases by Jon Mein
The 1851 census for this parish has been indexed by Dyfed Family History Society.
Census Returns for this parish have the following LDS Call Numbers:
- 1841 Census - 0464344
- 1851 Census - 0104232
- 1861 Census - 0543242
- 1871 Census - 0850852
- 1881 Census - 1342301
- 1891 Census - 6099636
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
Parish entry for Begelly with East Williamston and Coedcenlas from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
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Zion Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Begelly on the People's Collection Wales site
Parish registers: Christenings (1759-1934), Marriages (1771-1933), and Burials (1759-1934) are at the National Library of Wales with copy Mf at Pem.RO
Copy ts PR/BT (1757-1800) at Pem.RO
Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1685-6, 1799-1809, 1811-88, 1892, 1896-7) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Call Number: 0105128.
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
East Williamston: An ancient chapelry whose PR are included in those of Begelly (see also under Williamston parish)
Nonconformist Chapels:
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The transcription of the section for Begelly from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
Transcript of complete entry in Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Wales of 1844.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Begelly to another place.
Morgan, W.R. A Pembrokeshire countryman looks back, Crymych, Dyfed, W.R. Morgan (1988) 223 p.Chapter headings ;-The Village; Farming; The Drovers; Coal Mining; Education; Religion; Village Water Supply; Postal Services; Roads and Toll Gates; The Coming of the Railway; The Union Workhouse. There is also an earlier book by the same author called Story of Begelly.
Parish map (Kain/Oliver)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN099084 (Lat/Lon: 51.742146, -4.755578), Begelly which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Places, villages, farms etc within Begelly parish 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 Barry Johnson)
- Begelly (128); Begelly, Broom, Catershook Gate, Cowsland, Dawes Fm., Hacket, Langdon, Ramshorn Fm., Rock Fm., Shipping, Templebar, Thomas Chapel, Windberry Top.
A Pembrokeshire Mining Community on Jon Mein's site - Some thoughts on the history of the coalmining community around Begelly and Saundersfoot in Pembrokeshire.
Including a feature on 'The Importance of the Thomas Chapel Colliery Disaster' - in 1838 6 miners were drowned at this pit nerar Begelly.