Llanfallteg, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

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

Llanfallteg is a small village and ecclesiastical parish in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is part of the community of Henllan Fallteg.

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: "LLANVALTEG (LLAN-FALLTEG), a parish, comprising two divisions, in the union of NARBERTH, of which one is in the lower division of the hundred of DERLLYS, county of CARMARTHEN, and the other in that of DUNGLEDDY, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 5 miles (N.E.) from Narberth; and containing 329 inhabitants, of whom 327 are in the county of Carmarthen, and 72 in that of Pembroke. This parish ... is pleasantly situated on the turnpike-road from Narberth to Newcastle-Emlyn, near the right bank of the river Tâf ... and comprises a tract of land all inclosed, of which by far the greater part is in a state of cultivation: the portion in Carmarthen contains 1280 acres, of which 940 are arable, 314 pasture, and 26 woodland; and the portion in Pembroke contains 398 acres, of which 92 are arable, 294 pasture, and 12 wood ... Stone for common building purposes is quarried ... The church, which is dedicated to St. Mallteg, and situated in that division of the parish in the county of Pembroke, has been rebuilt within the last sixty years, by a parochial rate, and is a neat edifice. There are two day schools, in which 55 children of both sexes are instructed at the expense of their parents;. and a Sunday school ..."

For more information on Llanfallteg see Llanfallteg at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llanfallteg at Vision of Britain.