Bishopston, Glamorgan, Wales Genealogy

Guide to Bishopston, Glamorgan ancestry, family history, and genealogy: civil registration, census records, and parish register transcripts.

History
BISHOPSTON, or LLAN-DEILO-VER-WALT, a parish, in the union and hundred of Swansea, county of Glamorgan, South Wales, 6½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Swansea. The small village of Caswell, in the parish, gives name to Caswell bay. The church, dedicated to St. Teilo. There are places of worship for Independents and Calvinistic Methodists. Here was formerly a chapel, which has long since fallen into ruins.

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Parish Chest
Vestry minutes (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Church warden accounts (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Tithe Records
The tithe agreement date for Bishopston was DATE.

Nonconformist Chapel Records
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Civil Registration
The Civil Registration District for Bishopston is DATESANDNAMESCIVREG.

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Several Internet sites list names or indexes to the records, including:


 * FreeBMD
 * Ancestry.co.uk
 * findmypast
 * TheGenealogist.co.uk

Census Records
Census for the entire country was started in 1841 and continued every ten years. The most recent census available to the public is 1911. Learn more about these records by reading the census article.

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Glamorgan Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Poor Law Unions
Visit the England and Wales Poor Law Records page for more information.