Llanbadarn Trefeglwys, Cardiganshire, Wales Genealogy

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A guide to genealogy in Llanbadarn Trefeglwys, with information on where to find birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records; census records; wills; cemeteries; maps; etc. Llanbadarn Trefeglwys (formerly Llanbadarn Fach) is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Ceredigion, Wales.

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

History
In 1833: "LLANBADARN - TRÊVEGLWYS (LLAN - BADARN-TRÊV-EGLWYS), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of ILAR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 12 miles (S. by W.) from Aberystwith, containing 982 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river Arth, formerly constituted one of the prebends in the collegiate church of Llandewy-Brevi, and was rated in the king's books at £12. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Kilkennin annexed, in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St. David's, rated in the king's books at £6, endowed with one-third of the tithes, and with £1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of St. David's. The church is dedicated to St. Padarn, or Paternus. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor is £ 170.2." [From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]

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Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llanbadarn Trefeglwys Vision of Britain]