Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

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

Llangathen 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
In 1844: "LLANGATHEN (LLAN-GATHAN), a parish, in the union of LLANDILO-VAWR, lower division of the hundred of CATHINOG, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Llandilo-Vawr; containing 1108 inhabitants. This parish is delightfully situated in a fertile district of considerable extent, celebrated for the richness and the diversity of its scenery ... It comprises by admeasurement 5513 acres, of which 1873 are arable, 3400 meadow and pasture, and, by computation, 240 woodland and roads ... the cultivation of wheat, barley, and oats, with the rearing of cattle, forms the principal employment of the farmers... The village, situated on the turnpike-road from Carmarthen through Aberguilly to Llandilo-Vawr, has a cheerful appearance, and is much enlivened by the number of travellers passing through it ... The church, dedicated to St. Cathan, and standing on a lofty eminence [accomodates] 400 persons ... There are two places of worship in the parish for Calvinistic Methodists ..."

For more information on Llangathen see Llangathen at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llangathen at Vision of Britain.