Heneglwys Anglesey Wales Family History Guide
Heneglwys is bounded on the north by the parish of Bodwrog, on the east by that of Llangefni, on the south by that of Llangristiolus, and on the west by that of Trewalchmai.
Status: Ancient Parish; Civil Parish
Alternative names: Hêneglwys, Llan Y Saint Llwydion
Parish church: St Llwydian
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1693
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1677
Nonconformists include: Independents and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HENEGLWYS, a parish in the district and county of Anglesey; adjacent to the river Cefni, 3 miles W of Llangefni r. station, and 4½ N of Bodorgan. Post town, Llangefni, Anglesey. Acres, 2, 062. Real property, £2, 101. Pop., 510. Houses, 114. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Trewalchmai, in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £383. Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The church was rebuilt in 1845, and has a very ancient font.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1849
HÊNEGLWYS (HÊN-EGLWYS), a parish, in the hundred of Malltraeth, union and county of Anglesey, North Wales, 2 miles (W.) from Llangevni, and on the Holyhead road; containing 466 inhabitants. This parish, the name of which signifies “the old church,” comprises by computation about 2000 acres; upwards of half the surface is arable, and the remainder pasture, with about 50 acres of waste land. It is bounded on the north by the parish of Bodwrog, on the east by that of Llangevni, on the south by that of Llangrystyolys, and on the west by that of Trêvwalchmai. The surface exhibits no distinguishing features except towards the south, where it becomes uneven and rocky, and is well adapted for planting; the soil is for the most part thin and wet, with a gravelly substratum, and the chief produce is oats. A brook flows through the east end of Hêneglwys, close by the only hamlet in it, named Bodfordd: on the south-west side of the parish is Tre’rgov, a gentleman’s seat. The situation of the parish, about half-way between Bangor and Holyhead, on the new line of road, has rendered it a place of some traffic; and the Mona Inn, a spacious and commodious hotel and posting-house, has been erected in this vicinity for the accommodation of travellers; but the situation is bleak and exposed, and the immediate neighbourhood uninviting, consisting chiefly of swampy flats and rocky promontories.
The living is a discharged rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Trêvwalchmai annexed, rated in the king’s books at £9. 3. 4.; patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The tithes of the parish have been commuted for a rent-charge of £250, and the glebe consists of nineteen acres, valued at £20 per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Llwydian, was entirely demolished and rebuilt in the year 1845, being in so ruinous a condition as to be no longer safe for the performance of divine service. It was an edifice of the end of the fourteenth century, and perhaps occupied the site of a still older building; the occurrence of some rude sculpture, and of stones bearing zigzag mouldings, as well as the font itself, pointing to the apparent date of the first edifice, namely, antecedent to the fourteenth century, and dating probably from the eleventh. In rebuilding the church in 1845, care was taken to preserve the same site, with the same plan and the same style as marked the former structure. The old materials were employed over again; a new east window, a facsimile of the previous one, but rather more lofty, inserted; the pitch of the gable heightened, buttresses added at the angles, and the font, with whatever remains of ancient times occurred, preserved and replaced. An inscription, not hitherto deciphered, was found in taking down the church, and was carefully placed in the new edifice. There are places of worship for Independents and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists; also two Sunday schools, one of them in connexion with the Church, and the other with the Calvinistic body.
William Bold, in the year 1688, bequeathed a tenement and some land in the parish, containing about thirty-four acres, called Tyddyn-y-Tylodion, and now yielding a rent of £27. 6. per annum, to the poor of Hêneglwys and Trêvwalchmai. To this property an allotment of nearly four acres and three-quarters was adjudged on a subsequent inclosure of the common land; the allotment is now let at £2 per annum, and the amount of both rents is equally divided, and distributed among the poor of the respective parishes. The Rev. Hugh Hughes, a late rector, also devised two farms containing about forty-seven acres, and producing a rent of £30, directing that £2 should be annually applied to apprenticing a boy of the parish, 10s. to the poor, 10s. to the church, and similar sums to the two last items to the parish of Trêvwalchmai, the residue to be retained by the rector of this parish. With the portion applicable to apprenticing a poor boy a fund has been formed, and one is so placed out every three years, who is clothed at the expense of the parish.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis 1849
Parish Registers
Anglesey County Record Office
- Register No.: WPE/26
- Baptism: 1693-1993
- Marriages: 1693-1970
- Burials: 1693-1994
Parish Records
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Maps
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