Blaenpennal, Cardiganshire, Wales Genealogy

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

Blaenpennal is a village in Ceredigion, Wales.

Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Cardiganshire and, between 1974 and 1996 in the County of Dyfed. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Ceredigion.

History
In 1833: "BLAEN-PENAL, a chapelry in the parish of LLANDEWY-BREVI, lower division of the hundred of PENARTH, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 10 1/2 miles (N. by E.) from Lampeter, containing 543 inhabitants. It is situated at the extremity of the beautiful vale of Aëron which river rises from a mountain near the village, in which and the surrounding district are several pleasing and ornamental residences. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St.David's, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Perpetual Curate of Llandewy-Brevi. The chapel is dedicated to St. David. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. This chapelry separately supports its own poor: the average annual expenditure is £82.4." [From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]

For further information see Blaenpennal at Genuki.

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