Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Calvary Baptist Church, Brynmawr Breconshire with registration district in Monmouthshire

Registration Districts in Monmouthshire: "Bedwelty
Created 1st July 1861 (out of Abergavenny district).
Sub-districts : Aberystruth; Rock Bedwelty; Tredegar.
GRO volumes : XXVI (1837-51); 11a (1852-1930).
Aberystruth, Aberystruth Brynmawr, Bedwelty, Rock Bedwelty, Tredegar.
Registers now in Blaenau Gwent district."

GENUKI: Brynmawr, Llanelly, Breconshire: "This is a town of 6,000, and has sprung up in response to a demand for houses for workmen employed at Nantyglo. The works were taken by Mr, (afterwards Sir) Joseph Bailey about 1813. There was then only one cottage on the hill where the town now stands; and the first cottages were built about this time near the site of the Vulcan foundry. The name Brynmawr occurs for the first time in 1817; by 1829 twenty houses had been built, but it was not until 1884 that the building of the town began in earnest, and in the following year we find streets named, viz., Bridge Sheet, Davies Street, Bailey Street, King Street, and Market Square. Twenty-two new tenants were added to the rolls of the Duke of Beaufort; in 1886 there were nine new tenants, and the names Worcester, Chapel, and Glamorgan Streets appear. By the year 1888 the greater part of the town appears to have been completed.

Brynmawr was built upon a. portion of the parishes of Llangattock and Llanelly, and when the railway was made in 1864, Brynmawr Station was erected on a corner of Aberystruth parish in Monmouthshire, where a suburb sprung up. " what the danes call a stationsby - a station town, occuring when the centre of the village shifted from the parish church to the newly built railway station.

Calvary Baptist Church, Brynmawr,The Early Years: "Research on Calvary's early history by Judith Sylte."
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