Monmouthshire, Wales Genealogy

Wales Monmouthshire

Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Historic Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire (Welsh:Sir Fynwy or Mynwy) was one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales. It was a maritime county, bounded to the north by Breconshire, to the east by Herefordshire (in England), to the west by Glamorgan and to the south by the Bristol Channel.

The county was created following the Act of Union of 1536, between Wales and England, and was formed from the lordships of Abergavenny, Caerleon, Chepstow, Monmouth, Newport, Three Castles, Usk and part of Ewias.

The administrative county of Monmouthshire, with an elected county council, was formed in 1889 by the Local Government Act 1888.

The 1971 census recorded the population of Monmouthshire as 461,700.

Motto: Usque Fidelis (English: Faithful to both)

Chapman Code: MON

1974-1996 Gwent


Under the Local Government Act 1972, the county and administrative county of Monmouthshire was abolished on April 1, 1974. Most of its area formed the new county of Gwent, with parts going to the new counties of Mid Glamorgan and South Glamorgan.

Modern Monmouthshire


Following further local government reorganisation, the county of Gwent was abolished on April 1, 1996 and was divided into the newly created county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Islwyn, Newport and Torfaen and the county of Monmouthshire (which has very different boundaries from the historic county of that name).

Topics

 * Monmouthshire Archives and Libraries
 * Monmouthshire Societies
 * Monmouthshire Nonconformist Records
 * Monmouthshire Poor Law Unions

Research tools
Indexed Bishops Transcripts and Parish Records for the County of Monmouthshire, Wales – this is a work in progress site and currently only a few parishes with searchable records.

FamilySearch - Wales, Monmouthshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912

Websites

 * Monmouthshire Resources and Help pages RootsChat Monmouthshire Resources and Help pages. (Free).
 * Gwent Archives at Ebbw Vale.
 * Gwent Family History Society
 * Monmouthshire Monumental Inscriptions
 * The Big Pit National Coal Museum at Blaenafon.
 * The National Roman Legion Museum at Caerleon
 * 1885 County Map: Courtesy of London Ancestor

Cemeteries

 * Monmouthshire Monumental Inscriptions

Church records

 * Church records - Dissenter Index for Glamorgan &amp; Monmouthshire


 * Caerwent Church records

Court Records

 * Crime and Punishment 1730-1830

Directories

 * 1901

Genealogy

 * Rootsweb Monmouthshire board
 * BBC Wales south-east genealogy

Probate

 * Original Wills Online