England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Llanfabon lies in the extreme east of Glamorgan forming a stretch of the border with neighbouring Monmouthshire. Llanfabon is a largely upland parish, the small village which gives its name to the parish lying roughly 9 miles south of the industrial town of Merthyr Tydfil. Llanfabon is little more than a hamlet consisting of church, inn and a few scattered farms which sits 2 miles east of the A470 which connects Merthyr Tydfil with Cardiff. The wider parish is bordered both to east and west by two of the principal valleys of South Wales, the Taff to the west and Rhymney to the east. Prior to the industrial revolution this was an upland farming area, largely dominated by pastoral dairy & beef herds with sheep on the rougher grazing of the higher ground, indeed almost 20% of the parish is described in early gazetteers as "common". Coal mining became the dominant employer in the 18th and 19th centuries and the collieries of Gelligaer parish saw many of their inhabitants living within Llanfabon's bounds. Modern developments came too, the Aberdare canal being followed by railway lines down each major valley to transport the coal to the port of Cardiff and with that development came people driving up the population of this broad rural parish by several fold. Today the mines are gone and the landscape is returning to the "Green of my Valley". The twin rivers head to the outer Bristol Channel southwards reaching the sea either side of the conurbation of Cardiff. Llanfabon, itself, it sited at around 210 metres above the sea but land within the parish spreads between 70 metres by the rivers to heights of 355 metres on nearby Mynydd Eglwysilan. The parish was one of the larger in its county, covering 5,000 acres it would have seen its population rise from a few hundred to almost 1,500 by mid 19th century. Llanfabon, like most of Wales, 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 |
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2nd June 1754 - 5th April 1813 |
Glamorgan Archives - Cardiff - Reference -
NLW/LLANFABON/REGISTER/1 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
Marriage register with 4 entries per page |
Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues
with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur
albeit few in number |
Whilst the majority of this register is acceptable, a short
stretch suffers badly from fading and several entries are very
difficult to read making for a possibility of one or two misreads |
2 | 7th May 1814 - 10th June 1837 | Glamorgan Archives - Cardiff - Reference - NLW/LLANFABON/REGISTER/2 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Merthyr
Tydfil St Tydfil
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Llanwonno
St Gwynno
Eglwysilan St Ilan |
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Eglwysilan
St Ilan
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Eglwysilan
St Ilan
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