Cardiganshire, Wales Genealogy

Wales Cardiganshire

Cardiganshire (Welsh: Sir Aberteifi or Ceredigion) is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales. It is a maritime county, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea, to the north by Merionethshire, to the east by Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire, and to the south by Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. The county was created in the 1240s. The administrative county of Cardigan, with an elected county council, was created in 1889 by the Local Government Act 1888. The county was governed by an elected county council, who took over the functions of the Quarter Sessions courts. Aberaeron and Aberystwyth were joint county towns.

Motto: Golud Gwlad Rhyddid (English: A nation's wealth is freedom)

Chapman Code: CGN

Topics

 * Cardiganshire Nonconformist Records
 * National Library of Wales

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
 * Poor Law Union
 * Archdeaconry
 * Diocese
 * County

Research tools

 * The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
 * The Ceredigion Archive

Useful websites

 * Cardiganshire Family History Society


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