Hi James,
Thanks so much for your explanation. Just to clarify a few things.
1. When you refer to parish you also mean sub-district, correct?
2. Just a reminder for me. I have a hard time visualizing political boundaries in Wales
since they are quite a bit different than the U.S. and since there is a different name for
census returns, BMD info. etc.
Country
County
Parish
Town/Hamlet
(where does hundred fit in? Is there anything else?)
3. If the three areas of Llangynidr, Beaufort, and Bedwellty are listed on census returns
for my Hannah Rees, perhaps she was really born is Beaufort, since Beaufort does in a way
have something to do with all three areas?
4. If I want to search census returns for Beaufort before 1861, I would need to check the
following areas.
Place Sub-District District
County
Beaufort Aberystruth Bedwelty
Monmouth
Beaufort Llangattock Crickhowell
Brecon
Beaufort Llangynidr Crickhowell
Brecon
Thanks so much,
Melanie
Hi Melanie,
I was born in Beaufort so I know the geography well but I can completely
understand the confusion this would cause to anyone not familiar with the
area. Beaufort was a village that grew up during the Industrial Revolution
and it was largely located in the parish of Llangattock but some of the
western parts were in Llangynidr. Both came under the Crickhowell
registration district (records now at Brecon). Other (fewer) parts were in
Aberystruth which was within the Bedwellty Registration district (records at
Tredegar). The actual villages of Llangynidr and Llangattock are quite a way
from Beaufort and they were, and remain, quite distinct in other ways - the
villages being wholly rural while Beaufort bore more resemblance to
industrial Ebbw Vale. Today Beaufort is regarded as part of Ebbw Vale which
is testimony to this. Beaufort became a parish in its own right in the 1890s
and was finally incorporated into Monmouthshire in the early part of the
20th century (1930s I think), before that it was Breconshire. Llangattock
and Llangynidr remained in Breconshire - now part of Powys. I hope this
helps!
James Phillips-Evans
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