Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

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

Llangyndeyrn is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish in the Gwendraeth valley in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

The community also includes the cillages of Carwe, Meinciau, Pum Heol, Crwbin and Pontantwn, and part of Pontyates.

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.

The redundant spelling of Llangendeirne can be see in some older documents.

History
In 1844: "LLANGENDEIRN (LLAN-GYNDEYRN), a parish, in the hundred of KIDWELLY, union and county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 5 miles (S.E.) from Carmarthen, on the road through Llannon to Swansea; containing 2624 inhabitants ... The lands are, with the exception of a very small portion, inclosed and in a good state of cultivation; and the substratum of the soil consists of various valuable minerals, chiefly, coal, iron, and limestone, the procuring of which affords employment to many of the inhabitants... The church, dedicated to St. Cyndeyrn, is a spacious and plain edifice; and the churchyard is one of the finest and most agreeably situated in the country. There are two places of worship for Independents, two for Baptists, and one for Methodists. A school for the gratuitous education of poor children was endowed by Mrs. Catherine Goldfrap, a native of the parish, in 1784 ... there are 80 boys and girls in the school ... About 60 children are instructed at another day school, at their parents' cost; and there are eight Sunday schools ... Formerly there were numerous seats in the parish, within which no fewer than seven magistrates were resident; but they have all been deserted by their proprietors, and most of them converted into farm-houses."

For more information on Llangyndeyrn see Llangyndeyrn at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llangyndeyrn at Vision of Britain.