Cerrigceinwen Anglesey Wales Family History Guide
Cerrigceinwen parish is situated on the road leading from Bangor to Holyhead, and is bounded on the north-east by Llangevni, on the south-east by Llangrystyolys, on the south-west by Trêvdraeth and Aberfraw, and on the north-west by Hêneglwys.
Status: Ancient Parish; Civil Parish
Alternative names:
Parish church: St Ceinwen
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1721
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1676
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CERRIG-CEINWEN, a parish in the district and county of Anglesey; 3 miles N of Bodorgan r. station, and 5½ NE of Aberffraw. Post Town, Llangefni, under Bangor. Acres, 1,582. Real property, £1,621. Pop., 465. Houses, 108. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Llangristiolus, in the diocese of Bangor. The church was built in 1861; is in the early English style; and consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret and vestry.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1849
CERRIGCEINWEN (CERYG-CEINWEN), a parish, in the hundred of Malltraeth, union and county of Anglesey, North Wales, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from Llangevni; containing 550 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road leading from Bangor to Holyhead, and is bounded on the north-east by Llangevni, on the south-east by Llangrystyolys, on the south-west by Trêvdraeth and Aberfraw, and on the north-west by Hêneglwys. It comprises by admeasurement 1296 acres, of which 36 are waste, and the remainder chiefly arable. The soil is rather wet and clayey, but produces oats and barley in abundance; and at the south-western extremity of the parish is some fine pasture land: the scenery is uninteresting, except in the immediate vicinity of the church, where is a group of porphyritic rocks of a singularly wild and romantic appearance, which are the out-crop of a vein of coarse porphyry. A vein of iron-ore has been worked, but without success. In the parish is the house of Bodswyn, which was built by Mr. Hughes, about eighty or ninety years ago, and is now occupied by a farmer: the feoffees of Beaumaris free school are the chief landowners, and Lord Dinorben is lord of the manor. Mona Inn, the half-way hotel between Bangor and Holyhead, is situated in the parish.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Llangrystyolys: the rectorial tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £129. 3., and the rectorial glebe consists of three acres, valued at £5 per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Ceinwen, is supposed to have been founded originally about the year 450, but it is uncertain at what time the present edifice was built. It is a small low structure, of plain appearance, measuring forty-six feet long by twenty feet wide externally, with a single bell-gable at the western end, on the wall beneath which are some characters faintly visible but not legible. A small decorated-English doorway, under a modern porch, leads into the church on the southern side; and over this doorway is a crossed tombstone, of early date, used as a lintel. The eastern window, though small, is one of the purest models, as to proportions and workmanship, extant in this part of Wales. In the church is a monument to Morris Lloyd, of Plâsbâch, in the parish, who was buried on the 3rd of October, 1647: tradition represents him as a gallant royalist, who defended his house against a party of thirty parliamentary soldiers, eight of whom he killed, before he surrendered his own life. In the churchyard, on the southern side, is a holy well, formed naturally in the rock, and once much resorted to as a spring that could cure many diseases.
The Rev. Dr. Lewis, a native of this parish, and rector of Allhallows, London Wall, in 1681, bequeathed £3000, with which an estate was purchased in the parish of Llanelhaiarn, in the county of Carnarvon. This estate now produces about £200 per annum; but with accumulations in the three per cent. consols, the whole income amounts to about £260, for several benevolent purposes. Among these he directed that £25 per annum should be paid for a sermon every Sunday in each of the churches of Llangrystyolys and Cerrigceinwen; £5 to the poor of the two parishes, being 50s. to each; £10 for teaching two boys of the latter parish; £10 to each of eight exhibitions, in preference from the county of Anglesey, for four years at the Universities, but at present limited to Jesus’ College, Oxford; £5 for the same number of years to each of four widows of clergymen; and £15 for the benefit of Beaumaris school; nearly all of which charities are now in full operation, under the sanction and superintendence of respectable trustees. By an inclosure act, passed in 1812, for this parish, and those of Llangevni, Llanddyvnan, and Pentraeth, it was provided that six acres should be allotted in each place for supplying the poorer inhabitants with peat for fuel, and if there should be no peat in the parish, the allotment to be let, and the rent accruing to be appropriated to a similar purpose. On the inclosure in this parish, under the act, an allotment of four acres and four perches was made, whereon the parish built two cottages, in which two poor families are permitted to reside rent-free; the remainder yields a rent of 18s. per annum, which is carried to the aid of the poorrates. A cottage and several small pieces of land, containing in the whole about four and a half acres, and producing £3 per annum, exclusive of the cottage, which is occupied by the parish-clerk rent-free, were left by unknown donors for the repairs of the church. A bequest of £4 by the Rev. Dr. Roberts, formerly Bishop of Bangor, has been lost.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis 1849
Parish Registers
Anglesey County Record Office
- Register No.: WPE/46
- Baptism: 1721-1991
- Marriages: 1721-2002
- Burials: 1721-1992
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