Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

A guide to genealogy in Pembrey, with information on where to find birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records; census records; wills; cemeteries; maps; etc.

Pembrey (Welsh: Pen Bre) is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Carmarthenshire and, between 1974 and 1996 in the County of Dyfed. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Carmarthenshire.

History
PEN-BREY, otherwise PEMBREY (PEN-BRE), a parish in the hundred of KIDWELLY, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 5 miles (S.S.E.) from Kidwelly. The name of this place, signifying literally the head of a hill or promontory, is derived from its situation at the extremity of a mountainous ridge, beyond which a low promontory extends into the bay of Carmarthen. The substrata abound with mineral wealth, this district being thought to be the richest in South Wales in both bituminous and hard coal, both being worked to a very great extent. The quality of the soft coal is peculiarly adapted to the production of gas, the working of iron, and other manufacturing purposes; and vast quantities of both sorts are exported to various parts of the kingdom. A capacious harbour was constructed in 1819. This part of the coast is of difficult navigation, and to sailors unacquainted of it the most fatal on the shores of the Bristol Channel. The church, dedicated to St. Illtyd, is a spacious and handsome edifice in the later English style. There are places of worship for Independents, Baptists, Calvinistic Methodists, and Wesleyans.

For more information on Pembrey see Pembrey at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Penbre at Vision of Britain.