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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Higgins" <dennishiggins(a)worldnet.att.net>
To: <powys(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:03 PM
Subject: RE: [POWYS] BRE Dolygaer Chapel, Llanddeti -JENKINS (Glynn)
Dear Lloyd and John,
Thank you both for this information.
My 3 great grandmother, Mary Jenkins was christened at the Bethlehem Chapel
11 May 1834. Her father is Howel Jenkins and mother is Anne (Williams) of
Ballant Bach, Llanddety.
Ballant Bach was a farm on the east side of what is now the Talybont
Reservoir (I was told).
Mary's siblings were christened at Aber Chapel, Llanfigan.
John christened 1821
Margaret c. 1822
John c. 1826
Thomas c. 1829
Anne c. 1837
There are references in the Chapel records to Howel Jenkins (Glynn).
Can anyone shed some light on Glynn?
Thank you for any help! Connie
-----Original Message-----
From: powys-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:powys-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of John Ball
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:38 PM
To: powys(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [POWYS] BRE Dolygaer Chapel, Llanddeti - information required
Lloyd Lewis <lloyd.lewis1(a)virgin.net> wrote:
From the grid reference this is: Bethlehem, Taf-Fechan, Pontsticill
and was
an Anabaptist chapel.
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Dear Lloyd,
Thank you for your help Lloyd, but Bethlehem chapel is a different chapel
from the one at Dolygaer. Dolygaer Chapel is at SO053144, but Bethlehem
Chapel (shown on the Old-Maps website) was at grid reference SO055134,
further down the Taff Fechan, nearer to Pontsticill. It was at the
confluence of the Câr-fach and the Taff Fechan. It is under what is now the
Taff Fechan Reservoir.
Bethlehem Chapel was lost when the valley was flooded for the construction
of the Taff Fechan Reservoir between 1913 and 1927. I quote from the Brecon
Mountain Railway website at:
www.breconmountainrailway.co.uk/route.html
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The [Taff Fechan] Reservoir was completed in 1927 and can hold 3,400 million
gallons of water. The water flooded the vicarage and 15th Century Capel Taf
Fechan, Bethlehem Congregational Chapel, some cottages, small holdings and
land belonging to eight farms. In times of drought the remains of some of
these buildings appear above water level.
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Alan George's website at
www.alangeorge.co.uk/pontsticill.htm shows a
photograph of the entrance arch to the old Bethlehem Chapel (built in 1828)
protruding from the middle of the reservoir during a drought.
I suppose it's possible the chapel at Dolygaer was built as a replacement
for Bethlehem Chapel, but this is pure speculation.
Kind regards,
John
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