England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishCaerphilly has an unusual position, it being one of the larger towns in its county yet being merely a small chapelry of the rural parish of Eglwysilan (which sits on the eastern edge of the county bordering neighbouring Monmouthshire) and for the period of this transcript being only licensed for a marriages for a short time in which only 35 marriages were recorded. Caerphilly is located about 7 miles north of the county town of Cardiff and sits at the crossroads of the A468 (running from Newport westwards along the base of the industrial valley) with the A469 (heading north from Cardiff along the Rhymney Valley). Caerphilly has a very long history being developed as a town following the construction of its mighty castle begun in 1268 as one the string of castles designed by Edward 1's team to subdue the Welsh. Today the castle is the major touristic feature of the town and a draw for visitors. The town remained relatively small throughout the Middle Ages only growing to its present size as part of the general industrialisation of the area following the Industrial Revolution. The economy was governed not by the mines of further north but included an active weaving industry as well as providing the market for local produce and the specialist skilled trades associated with a market town. Modern developments came to the town with construction of the railway line along the Rhymney Valley from Cardiff, Caerphilly acquiring a station on that line enabled much growth in trade as well as a growing commuter trade with nearby Cardiff. The Rhynmey drains the town eastwards and then south to reach the nearby outer Bristol Channel. Caerphilly is sited at between 80 and 210 metres above the sea, the northern suburbs rising up the hillside almost to its summit, land continues to rise to the northwest to reach 355 metres on Mynydd Eglwysilan. Caerphilly chapelry covered merely the limits of the medieval town lying wholly with Eglwysilan parish, it would have a substantial population included within that parishes data. Like most of Wales Caerphilly is not mentioned in Domesday Book as that tome did not cover this area. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
27th April 1813 - 17th June 1820 |
Glamorgan Archives - Cardiff - Reference - P148CW/2 |
Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage
register |
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low
likelihood of misreads |
None |
Eglwysilan
St Ilan
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Eglwysilan
St Ilan
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Eglwysilan
St Ilan
Bedwas St Barrwg, Monmouthshire |
Eglwysilan
St Ilan
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Eglwysilan
St Ilan
Rudry St James |
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Eglwysilan
St Ilan
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Eglwysilan
St Ilan
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Eglwysilan
St Ilan
Rudry St James |
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