England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Llanddewi lies in far western Glamorgan on the Gower Peninsula. Llanddewi is roughly 14 miles west of Swansea and sits just west of the A4118 which connects Swansea with Port Eynon and where that road performs a sharp right-angled bend changing direction from westwards to heading south to the coast. There is not much to Llanddewi, no village as such, just a collection of farms loosely grouped around the church. Llanddewi also served the sister parish of Knelston when that parish's church fell into disuse. Llanddewi sits almost centrally within the Gower Peninsula with the parish covering the most fertile land within that peninsula, a mixture of farming regimes with pastoral farming dominant. Llanddewi is drained northwards by the narrow Burry Pill, which meets the outer estuary of the Afon Llwchwr through the small village of Llanmadoc. In contrast to Gower's coastal riches and dominant ridge-line, Llanddewi sits on a fertile plain at around 50 metres above the sea, land rises, at first gently and then much steeper, onto the ridge of Cefn Bryn which tops out at almost 190 metres close to Penmaen. Parishes in Glamorgan vary markedly in size with upland ones far exceeding the lowland parishes in extent, as one of the latter Llanddewi is, however, fairly typical, covering close to 1,200 acres Llanddewi would have supported a population of around 150 parishioners. Like most of Wales Llanddewi is not mentioned in Domesday Book which did not cover this area. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
15th April 1754 - 29th December 1812 |
West Glamorgan Archives - Swansea - Reference - P/107/CW/7 |
Plain, ruled book containing combined Banns &
Marriages |
Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues
with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur
albeit few in number |
Water-damage to this register makes one or two entries
tricky to read and may lead to a misread or two |
2 | 1st April 1813 - 8th June 1837 | West Glamorgan Archives - Swansea - Reference - P/107/CW/2 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Rhossili
St Mary
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Knelston
St Mary
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Rhossili
St Mary
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Rhossili
St Mary
Port Eynon St Cynog |
Penrice
St Andrew
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