Henllan Amgoed St David

England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Henllan Amgoed St David

The Parish

The parish of Henllan Amgoed lies in the extreme west of Carmarthenshire forming a stretch of the county's border with neighbouring Pembrokeshire. Henllan Amgoed is located roughly 7 miles northeast of the Pembrokeshire market town of Narberth and sits a little over 2 miles north of the A40 road which links Narberth with Carmarthen. Henllan Amgoed is a dispersed settlement with no real centre, a lane leads northwest from Whitland through the parish and carries the main concentration of farms and cottages either side but the wider parish is dotted with similar small collections. Like most areas to the west farming is a mixed regime with both pastoral, in the main, and arable, usually the hardier crops, present. A small tributary of the Afon Taf drains southwards to meet its larger self before turning east to St Clears where the river, enhanced by further rivers from the north, turns south to flow into the outer Bristol Channel. Henllan Amgoed is sited at around 100 metres above the sea and sits on a ridge of higher ground above the river, that ridge continues rising northwards to a local spot height of 155 metres in rolling countryside. By western standards Henllan Amgoed was a small parish barely a little more than 1,000 acres would have supported a population reputed to be over 400 parishioners but much smaller today. Like most of Wales Henllan Amgoed is not mentioned in Domesday Book which did not cover this area.

The Church

St David's church sits around a half mile northeast of the main lane running through the parish from Whitland. The church stands beset by trees within a"llan", an ancient religious site, next to Henllan Farm. Whilst the church has medieval origins with documentary evidence recording the presence of 2 bells in 1552, that medieval core has been almost totally replaced by Victorian work. A simple nave & chancel augmented with a southern porch it was mostly rebuilt in 1866 at which time it acquired its western bellcote and vestry. The church is accessed through a small white metal gate set into dense hedging off the lane leading to Henllan Farm, a short shady path leads to the compact churchyard which requires some ingenuity by the photographer to find unimpeded angles.

The Records

Register No	Covering Dates	Deposited With	Register Style	Quality Standard	Comments
1	1754 - 1826				There appear to be no registers or BTs for this period, if marriages occurred they are lost to history
2	20th May 1826 - 21st October 1836	Carmarthenshire Archive Service - Reference - CPR52/1	Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register	Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads	None

Llanboidy St Brynach	Llanboidy St Brynach	Llanboidy St Brynach
Llanfallteg St Mallteg		Llangan St Canna
Llandewi Velfrey St David, Pembrokeshire	Llandewi Velfrey St David, Pembrokeshire	Llandewi Velfrey St David, Pembrokeshire

Register Reference	Date	Groom Forename	Groom Surname	Groom Status	Groom Abode	Bride Forename	Bride Surname	Bride Status	Bride Abode
7	16/05/1824	Lewis	JOHN		Llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire	Anne	EVANS
5	09/11/1824	David	LEWIS		Eglwys Fair A Churig	Dinah	WILLIAMS
6	18/11/1824	William	JAMES		Llangan	Martha	PHILLIP
8	31/12/1824	John	MORGANS		Llandewi Velfrey, Pembrokeshire	Anne	PHILLIP
4	20/05/1826	John	THOMAS		Llanboidy	Hannah	WILLIAMS
9	29/09/1829	Evan	JOHN		Llanboidy	Mary	EVAN
10	02/02/1830	Thomas	PHILLIP	Single	Llangan	Anne	THOMAS	Single
11	18/05/1830	David	THOMAS			Mary	LEWIS
12	19/10/1830	John	EVAN		Llanfallteg	Mary	PHILLIP
13	04/12/1832	Henry	PHILLIPS	Single	Llanboidy	Elizabeth	WILLIAMS	Single
14	31/08/1833	John	DAVIES		Amroth, Pembrokeshire	Hannah	HARRIES
15	02/11/1833	John	JAMES	Widower	Narberth, Pembrokeshire	Anne	PHILLIPS	Single
16	11/11/1834	William	EVANS	Single		Sophia	PHILIPS	Single
17	06/10/1835	John	EDWARD	Single	Llanwinio	Phebe	LLEWELLIN	Single
18	31/05/1836	Harry	CUNNICK	Single		Rachel	WILLIAM
19	14/06/1836	William	JOHN	Single	Llangan	Mary	EVAN	Single
20	26/07/1836	William	SCOURFIELD	Single		Mary	DAVID	Single
21	29/07/1836	Evan	EVANS			Ann	JAMES	Single
22	21/10/1836	Daniel	OWEN	Single	Llanfallteg	Mary	PHILLIPS	Single

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