Montgomeryshire, Wales Genealogy

Wales Montgomeryshire

Topics

 * Montgomeryshire Poor Law Unions

Research tools

 * The North Wales BMD. A searchable index of births marriages and deaths within the county of Montgomeryshire from 1837 to around 1950.

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
 * Registration District
 * Poor Law Union
 * Archdeaconry
 * Diocese
 * County

Did you know?

 * Owain Glyndŵr was crowned Prince of Wales in 1404 in Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, before leaders from Scotland, France and Spain, and held his first Parliament in the town.
 * Robert Owen, the social reformer, philanthropist and one of the founders of socialism and the cooperative movement, was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire in 1771.