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cwrt y bella
« on: Monday 06 November 06 10:16 GMT (UK) »
hi
Trying to locate records for Cwrt y Bella church & cemetery. In particular re: Hopkins and Thomas families. Hopkins lived in the Ghwray Thomass lived Oakdale
thanks
Talf
Ridout - Glam Som
Hopkins Mon
Thomas Mon Caern
Franks Shrops Staffs Lancs Yorks Chesh
Sockett Shrops Staffs Hereford Mon
Abell Shrops Staffs

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Re: cwrt y bella
« Reply #1 on: Monday 06 November 06 23:41 GMT (UK) »
I've been looking for these too. No luck yet, but if anything turns up I'll let you know.
Watkins, Price Herefordshire
Brannan, Price, GLAM
Edwards, Gardner MON
Clark(e) SOM
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Re: cwrt y bella
« Reply #2 on: Friday 10 November 06 15:42 GMT (UK) »
Do not know if this will help but it seems the cem is near Blackwood. 

Check page 11 on the link, it is mentioned in a poem that schoolchilren wrote, descibes the area it is in. 

http://www.caerphilly.org.uk/projects/Epic%20Poem.pdf

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MON/Archives/index.html

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Squire/Thomas/Davies/Gibbons/Mordecai/Bowen/Lewis/Rees/Williams/Jones/Llewellyn/Morgan - Glamorgan
Lewis - Breckonshire
Davies/Roderick - Myddfai Carms
Lloyd/Jones - Denbigh/Salop
Thackwell/Thomas - Hereford/Monmouthshire
Shoemac/Squire/Keirle/Small - Somerset
Berry/Baggot/Lee/Clayton - Lancs
Yelland/Bray/Trethewey - Cornwall
Baggot/Hurley/Keaveny/Shiel/Flynn - Ireland

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Re: cwrt y bella
« Reply #3 on: Friday 10 November 06 18:11 GMT (UK) »
yes it was knocked down about 30 years ago but the cemetery is still visited.
Cwrt y bella also had a school and a community of mining cottages stretching to the colliers arms at the gwrhay. However its access to these records that i'm trying to get
Ridout - Glam Som
Hopkins Mon
Thomas Mon Caern
Franks Shrops Staffs Lancs Yorks Chesh
Sockett Shrops Staffs Hereford Mon
Abell Shrops Staffs

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Re: cwrt y bella
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 11 November 06 01:39 GMT (UK) »
I emailed the diocesan secretary about the records. I had a curt reply "get in touch with the Rector of Bedwellty." Been there, done that, no reply. I'm now going to try the Dean. He doesn't have an email addy so I'll give him a bell tonight. Let you know what I discover!
Watkins, Price Herefordshire
Brannan, Price, GLAM
Edwards, Gardner MON
Clark(e) SOM
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Re: cwrt y bella
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 12 February 17 00:11 GMT (UK) »
I live in NZ, but have relatives buried at Cwrt y Bella Cemetery, near Oakdale, Gwent, but do not know how to find a record of them. They are Edmund Jones d. 1960, Edith Jones d.1961, and their daughter Rita Brown d.1975. I visited the site once in the early 80s and recall that the stone was near one of the entrance gates.

I found a photo of the site on:http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1734847

Any help would be appreciated.
Ceri

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« Reply #6 on: Friday 10 March 17 19:34 GMT (UK) »
Cwrt-y-Bella (also referred to as Court-y-bella) graveyard is at the Gwrhay, near Argoed (Blackwood, Gwent / Monmouthshire). It was the church of Saints Philip and James (built 1853-8) but now demolished. The graveyard is still there and is now under the jurisdiction of St David's Church, Penmaen, Oakdale. The parish is known as Penmaen. Baptisms, marriages and burial records are held I believe by Gwent Records Office http://www.gwentarchives.gov.uk/ they list that they have baptisms 1852 - 1934 marriages1858 - 1971 and burials 1858 - 1930. The Gwent Family History Society might be able to help too - I think they have CDs of records. Hope that is of some help.
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