Glamorgan, Wales Genealogy

Wales Glamorgan

Topics

 * The Aberkenfig Resource Centre at Bridgend.
 * Register of Cottage Leases Dowlais Iron Company 1818 to 1877
 * Glamorgan Censuses
 * Glamorgan Electoral Registers
 * Glamorgan Maritime Records
 * Glamorgan Nonconformist Records
 * Glamorgan Police Records
 * Glamorgan Poor Law Unions
 * Municipal cemeteries in Glamorgan

Research tools

 * The Glamorgan Record Office in Cardiff.
 * The West Glamorgan Archive Service in Swansea.
 * Swansea Wills

Jurisdictions

 * Hamlet
 * Parish: an area of varying size under the responsibility of a clergyman of the Church of England/Church in Wales
 * Hundred: an administrative subdivision of a county, usually a group of two or more parishes
 * Sub-district: comprised of more than one civil parish
 * Registration District
 * Poor Law Union
 * Archdeaconry
 * Diocese
 * County

Useful websites

 * more Glamorgan websites ...

Did you know?

 * The national anthem of Wales, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" (English: Land of My Fathers) was written by Evan James and his son, James James, of Pontypridd, Glamorgan, in January 1856.
 * The international fashion designer and entrepreneur, Laura Ashley (née Mountney) was born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil in 1925.
 * The famous love song Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (English: Watching the White Wheat) is set on the village of Llangynwyd in Glamorgan.