Betws, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

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

Betws 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: "BETTWS, a parish, in the union of LLANELLY, hundred of ISKENNEN, ... 8 mile (S.) from Llandilo-Vawr; comprising the upper and lower divisions, and containing 1109 inhabitants ... situated within a short distance of the turnpike-road leading from Llandilo-Vawr to Swansea ... A considerable part of the surface is mountainous and barren, and the level portion contains some tracts of woodland ... a small quantity of grain is grown, but the chief produce is cheese and butter. The river Amman runs through the parish, and two brooks called Cathan and Nantyfin. Slate is quarried, and coal and iron-mines are in operation, a rail-road having recently been made. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Llandebie. The church, dedicated to St. David ... contains 250 sittings, of which 40 are free. A Sunday school affords instruction gratuitously in the Welsh language to about 110 children of both sexes."

For more information on Betws see Betws at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Betws at Vision of Britain.