Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

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

Llangadog is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

The community also includes the villages of Bethlehem and Capel Gwynfe.

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 Llangadock can be seen in some older documents.

History
In 1844: "LLANGADOCK (LLAN-GADOG-FAWR), a market-town and parish, comprising the hamlets of Above-Sawdde, Dyfryn-Cydrich, and Gwynve, in the union of LLANDOVERY, lower division of the hundred of PERVERTH, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 21 miles (E.N.E.) from Carmarthen; and 188 (W. by N.) from London, and containing 2064 inhabitants. This parish, which derives its name from the dedication of its church to St. Cadog, is of very remote antiquity ... The TOWN is beautifully situated between the rivers Brân and Sawdde, over the former of which it has a neat stone bridge of three elliptic arches ... it consists principally of one spacious street, containing several well built houses of respectable appearance, and is abundantly supplied with water, but neither paved nor lighted... the parish contains coal, limestone, and lead and iron ores, the two former of which are wrought on a moderate scale, employing fifty to sixty persons each during the summer months ... The PARISH contains 22,642 a. 3 r. 7 p., of which, by computation, 7000 acres are common, and, by admeasurement, 6812 a. 3 r. 7 p. arable, 8000 pasture and meadow, and 830 woodland; the soil is a good loam, and the chief produce, wheat, barley, and oats... The LIVING is a vicarage, with Llanthoysaint annexed ... In the hamlet of Gwynve is an endowed chapel, in the gift of the Vicar of Llangadock. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Calvinistic Methodists; and. . . five day schools ..."

For more information on Llangadog see Llangadog at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llangadog at Vision of Britain.