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Pembrokeshire Towns & Parishes |
"The County of PEMBROKE is 95 Miles in circumference, contains about 420000 Acres. It is divided into 7 Hundreds, in which 5 Market Towns, [two of which (viz.) Pembroke & Haverford West sends 2 Members each to Parliament] 45 Parishes & about 4329 Houses. The Air is pleasant & good, And ye Soil in ye bottom and towards ye Sea extraordinary fruitfull. some Hills & Mountains appear in ye Inland which are more barren yet feeding abundance of Sheep, Goats, Cattle, &c. Here is plenty of Fish, Fowl, Pit-Coal & Marl. In this County is Milford Haven, ye largest & most capacious Harbour in ye Kingdom." [Emanuel Bowen, Britannia Depicta, 1720]
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Prendergast,
Haverfordwest,
SA61 2PE
Tel No: 01437 775456
E-mail: record.office@pembrokeshire.gov.uk
It also has its own online catalogue called Calm View on the Pembrokeshire gov uk site
Material at Pembrokeshire Archives is included in databases on the Archives and Records Council Wales site
The National Library of Wales. The major repository of information relevant to Welsh genealogy, such as Bishop's Transcripts of Parish Registers, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, Nonconformist Records, Probate Records, Tithe Maps and Apportionment Schedules, Legal and Administrative Records, Estate Records and Personal Papers, Pedigree Books, Newspapers, etc.
The National Archives has details of many archive repositories in the UK with links to their web sites, if any.
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
The Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW)
Apart from their online Archive Catalogue there is the ;
Chapels database; The computerised database will eventually list all known nonconformist chapels in Wales. This initial list covers the pre-1974 county of Cardiganshire; further counties will be added as and when the database for these areas is completed. The record lists basic information about each chapel together with key dates.
A Pembrokeshire Bibliography - Books of General Interest for Family Historians
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Pembrokeshire County Council - Burial Record Search facility and also a Search facility for the Parc Gwyn Crematorium Book of Remembrance
Graveyard Welsh - a guide to interpreting memorial inscriptions
M.I. Surveys of a number of burial grounds are available on microfiche from Dyfed FHS.
Cenquest - offers free searches of various census indexes for Pembrokeshire, and more. The 1891 Pembrokeshire census is also available in book form by parish
1861 census for Pembrokeshire : Missing sections - details compiled by Gerry Lewis from the Archives CD Books Cd.
The UK BMD web site offers links to over 400 web sites that provide on-line information for UK births, marriages and deaths and censuses.
Pembrokeshire Census Lookups including the 1841 and 1851 series [Dyfed FHS]; the 1881[LDS] and a private database of the 1891 census covering north west Pembrokeshire.
The 1881 census index is online on LDS Family Search
On Dyfed Family History Society is a list of 1841 and 1851 Pembrokeshire E.D. census indexes where they have fiche for sale. For a list of what each Enumeration District contains see Not everyone knows this..
The Presbyterian Church of Wales site has a pdf file showing lists of CM chapels still open (with addresses) in each county (under Documents/General Info/Churches and Secretaries). This data has been noted on each chapel entry within these parish pages so it is implied that a chapel is closed if not said to be open in 2006
1891 census data - a list by Gerry Lewis giving the name of the Pembrokeshire parish, name of the church, population in 1891 and status of incumbent
Various church a chapel photographs can be viewed on Dyfed FHS who have also produced a CD (Nov 2001) which has a list of and photographs of all the known churches and chapels in the county.
Parishes of Dyfed. This section of the Dyfed FHS site lists the parishes, churches, and chapels, within the three counties of Dyfed. It contains all those currently identified, by the National Library of Wales, where the location of registers is known. Each entry gives the OS National Grid Reference and name of the church or chapel, if known, (religious denomination), parish, county code and (page name).
A large number - well over 50% by the mid-nineteenth century - of people in Pembrokeshire attended Nonconformist chapels, rather than the established church. Thus, except for marriages which prior to 1837 had to take place in the parish church, references to them are more likely to be found in nonconformist than in parish church records. Many of these have been deposited at the PRO (and filmed by the LDS), others are still to be found with the chapels or other libraries or archives.
Virtually all completed parish registers have been deposited in either the Pembrokeshire Record Office or the National Library of Wales. Bishop's Transcripts and Marriage Licenses are held at the National Library of Wales - and have been microfilmed by the LDS.
National Library of Wales Manuscripts and Records. An online searchable index of Marriage Bonds and Allegations.It contains details of some 90,000 marriages by licence which took place inWales between 1616 and 1837.
Listings of (present-day) Clerics, Benefices, and parishes of the Diocese of St Davids.
Many Parish register indexes, and indexes of baptisms, marriages and burials are available on microfiche from Dyfed FHS, where there is a list of all PEM hundreds and a list of places showing which parish and hundred they fall under.
The Dyfed FHS has indexed all marriages for the period 1812-1837, and provides a postal lookup service. Published copies of the index, in sets of parishes grouped by hundreds, are available.
Family
Search UK/Ireland - Historical Record Collections
IGI Batch Numbers - Hugh Wallis's site
and Archer
Software's site
Parish Register Copies for Pembrokeshire in the Library of the Society of Genealogists.
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
The UK BMD web site offers links to over 400 web sites that provide on-line information for UK births, marriages and deaths and censuses.
Detailed listing, by Brett Langston, of the places covered by the old and current Pembrokeshire Registration districts.
See separate page for details of how to obtain certificates from the Pembrokeshire Registry Office in Haverfordwest
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Held at Pembrokeshire Archives ;
Here is a simple index relating to parish maps copied from 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.).
Dyfed FHS has an online database of towns in Dyfed, includes trade directory descriptions and photographs
A Vision of Britain Through Time. "This site contains information about your home area from the 2001 census -- and from every earlier British census back to 1801. It can present this information both as maps of the whole country and as graphs showing change over time in your area. It truly offers a Vision of Britain through time"
Principal Markets and Fairs in South Wales. Extracted from Kelly's Directory South Wales 1910
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516. The Gazetteer compiled by Dr Samantha Letters is a catalogue of markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales. This is the first comprehensive national survey.
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
A Description of the county of Pembrokeshire from A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by Samuel Lewis.
Pembrokeshire County Council site
Pembrokeshire - on wikipedia
Pigot & Co. South Wales directory for 1830. CD published by Archive CD Books. The Pembrokeshire related entries as follows have been extracted and can be seen on the relevant parish pages of Genuki;
- Fishguard
- Haverfordwest
- Kilgerran
- Milford Haven
- Narberth
- Newport
- Pembroke, Pembroke Dock (or Pater) and Neighbourhoods
- St David's and Solva
- St Dogmells
- Tenby
Pigot & Co. South Wales directory for 1844. CD published by Archive CD Books. The Pembrokeshire related entries as follows have been extracted and can be seen on the relevant parish pages of Genuki;
- Fishguard
- Haverfordwest and Neighbourhood
- Kilgerran
- Milford Haven and Neighbourhood
- Narberth and Neighbourhood
- Newport
- Pembroke, Pembroke Dock (or Pater) and Neighbourhoods
- St David's and Solva
- Tenby
Dyfed FHS has an online database of Pigot's 1830 Directory South Wales relating to the Dyfed counties only.
Held at Ceredigion Archives;
- Slater's Trade Directory 1858-9 for Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire, North and South Wales. And some other directories for the period 1830 - 1926.
Tallis's Topographical Dictionary of England and Wales, published in 1860 in six vols, editor E. L. Blanchard. See Welsh Family History Archive for all the excellent county maps (showing the hundreds) and those sections of the alphabetical gazetteer that have been uploaded to date.
From the preface;
"In the following pages will be found fully described the past history and present aspect of every place of any significance in England and Wales, forming a work of permanent importance to the commercial world, of ready service to the tourist of the day, and of constant interest to the general reader, who may derive from this source a large supply of entertainment, as well as of information for the amusement and instruction of a leisure hour."
The Cenquest site is developing a new feature comprising a Gazetteer and Research Jottings based on the work of Basil Hughes and others.
Carmarthenshire & Pembrokeshire Wills - a selection of will transcriptions
Pembrokeshire Record Office's Searchable Online Catalogue "The catalogue contains descriptions of the archival holdings of Pembrokeshire Record Office, often down to item level description"
Pembrokeshire Families Project
Timeline of genealogically interesting dates by Gareth Hicks
John Ball's Welsh Family History Archive provides some very useful material and links for those with Welsh ancestry.
Online Welsh Names Directoryby Graham Jaunay
Here are details of the Genealogy Mailing Lists serving the Welsh counties
Experience Pembrokeshire - "Every community in Pembrokeshire has a rich and diverse history from prehistoric times to the present day ......."
Glen Johnson - the Teifi Estuary history man. "...........a site dedicated to illustrating the history, architecture and archaeology of Cardigan, St. Dogmaels, Cilgerran, Llechryd, Ferwig, Llangoedmore, Llantood, Bridell, Monington and Mwnt."
For Pembrokeshire historical snippets, see Not everyone knows this..
North Pembrokeshire Historial Archaeology Project - "..... is a long-term research initiative investigating many aspects of archaeology relating to the period from the 17th century onwards. Much of the work to date has been on later 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century material, both settlements and graveyard memorials. Fieldwork at present is largely concentrated on excavations at Henllys Farm, a site which has the potential to reveal a sequence which runs back into at least the late Middle Ages........"
Taxes from Pembrokeshire. A database of Land Tax Return data 1342 -1842, compiled by Owen Vaughan; the entries predominately relate to Oriel surnames and/or Monkton parish
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Pembrokeshire Archives holdings
Farms and Estates ; owners and occupiers from census and other records. These details have been submitted by members of Dyfed FHS and can be viewed on their site.
Here is a list of Document Collections related to Pembrokeshire held at the National Library of Wales
- Awbery, G M. The term 'landsker' in Pembrokeshire Journal of the Pembrokeshire Historical Society vol 4 1990/91 Welsh Journals Online
- John, Brian S The linguistic significance of the Pembrokeshire landsker The Pembrokeshire Historian vol 4 1972 Welsh Journals Online
- Southall, John E. Wales and her Language. 1892 Here is that part of the map from the book illustrating the 'landsker'
See here to view a 'sketch map' indicating the position and relative size of each parish within its hundred
Pembrokeshire County Council - have an online interactive mapping facility
Dyfed FHS has an early 20th century OS map of Dyfed
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Welsh county maps by Samuel Lewis and published in 1833
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Lighthouse Personnel in England and Wales and the Channel Islands 1841-1910. Includes;- Table of Keepers; Table of Stations by county; Location map of the lighthouse sites.
Welsh Mariners by Dr Reg Davies---includes a searchable database of over 17,000 Welsh born (or Wales resident) Master mariners, mates and engineers who held certificates of competency or service; in practice it is an index of men active from 1850 to 1945 in the merchant navy.
Swansea Mariners by Bryan Richards --- periods 1861 to 1871 and 1890 to 1894, a database of ratings such as un-certificated officers, bosun, able seaman, ordinary seaman, boy, cook, steward, etc in Glamorgan Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Cardiganshire, or from around the world. There are 32,000 detailed entries (9/2006).
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Place Names of Dyfed, provided by the Dyfed FHS, lists the parishes (plus a small number of other places) in Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, giving for each the name of its hundred, an OS map reference, and the civil registration district.
Place names in Pembrokeshire that have alternative spellings , or have changed completely
Some place names in south Wales - Deric John's site - now includes some Pembrokeshire names
Here is a listing of Pembrokeshire place names with their associated Genuki parish pages.
Here is a database with grid co-ordinates of 10,000 place names from the 1891/1901 censuses for certain parishes in PEM,CMN & GLA(Gower)
Dyfed newspapers. On Dyfed FHS there is a list of the locations that hold copies of known publications
Western Telegraph, a local newspaper covering all of Pembrokeshire
County Echo, covering the north of the county, primarily Fishguard
1756 War Office Billeting Return - transcribed by Jon Mein from material held at TNA (WO 30/49), the transcription covers Tenby, Haverfordwest, Landilo and Carmarthen districts - the Return lists all "pubs" (inns, ale-houses etc) able to accommodate men and horses.
The Coal House Project - on BBC Wales. Use the Browse by Place button to home in on particular mines/areas
Extract of coroners' inquests in coalmining area of eastern Pembrokeshire, 1786-1830 by Jon Mein
Reported deaths from coalmining accidents in eastern Pembrokeshire: 1830-1936 by Jon Mein
Victorian Professional Photographers in Wales 1850-1925 - a county based database compiled by Mari Alderman, includes sources and a bibliography
A List of Mines in Pembrokeshire and the adjoining parts of Carmarthen and Ceredigion. Introduction.
Lists of magistrates and police officials in the county of Pembrokeshire - extracted from Kelly's Directory of South Wales 1923 (published on CD by Archive CD Books)
Here is the Wales section from Outline Map of the Mining Districts of the UK from the Childrens' Employment Commission Report of 1842. The shaded areas denote the Coal and Iron Mining Districts.
Copied from the CD published by Archive CD Books
Apprentices from Dyfed in Bristol in the C17 & C18. Fiche for sale from Dyfed FHS.
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Held at the NLW ;
Dyfed FHS produce a journal for members three times yearly which contains many articles of general and specific interest to researchers in Pembrokeshire etc. Details of past issues are listed on Dyfed FHSSee under Societies
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
There were five Poor Law Unions covering Pembrokeshire: Cardigan (also covering part of Cardiganshire), Haverfordwest, Newcastle in Emlyn (also covering parts of Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire), Narberth (also covering part of Carmarthenshire), and Pembroke. The records for the Poor Law Unions of Haverfordwest, Narberth and Pembroke are in the Pembrokeshire Record Office, the others are in the Cardiganshire Record Office.
Held at Pem Archives;
The Workhouse - on Peter Higginbotham's site
Agricultural Statistics in 1908 for the counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Glamorgan as shown in Kelly's Directory for South Wales, 1910
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Held at the NLW ;
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
The Blue Books of 1847. An inquiry into the state of education in Wales - on the NLW's Digital Mirror site
Day Schools in Pembrokeshire in 1847. This database consists of
day schools which existed in 1847 included here within an alphabetical list of parishes
It contains the names and types of day schools listed in the
Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales published in 1847
Dyfed FHS has an online database of Schools and Colleges in the Dyfed counties, many with photographs
Alumni Oxonienses 1715 - 1886. This extract of Dyfed students from a reproduction on CD of the four volumes of Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 published by the Archive CD Books Project. Extracted and transcribed for the Dyfed FHS by Jonathan Pike. All references to the Dyfed students have been included plus individuals who are known to be connected to Dyfed familes.
Held at Pem Archives ;
Dyfed FHS covers the old counties of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire. It has several branches, including one in London. It publishes a regular journal for members.
Also has a Research Centre at the Women's Institute, 11 St. Peters Street,
Carmarthen. (centre*at*dyfedfhs.org.uk)
The Pembrokeshire
Historical Society (site?) "The Pembrokeshire Historical Society was
formed in 1985 following the amalgamation in 1983 of the Pembrokeshire Record
Society and the Pembrokeshire Local History Society. The Society exists to promote
an interest in the history of Pembrokeshire and to bring together both individuals
and related organisations sharing this interest."
The Journal of the
Pembrokeshire Historical Society was the successor to The Pembrokeshire Historian,
and is an annual English-language local history journal with academic and general
articles on historical and archaeological topics. It was published from 1985
and is on Welsh
Journals Online. As is the Pembrokeshire
Historian 1959-1981
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
These county pages are maintained by Gareth Hicks with help and information provided by a number of other volunteers.
(This page was last updated: 15 April 2015 - Gareth Hicks)
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