Name of Cemetary needed

[WelshGen]

I'm currently photographing and transcribing headstones at a cemetary in Coed-y-Parc, Bethesda. The only indication there is a cemetary there is a cross with the letters "Ch" alongside it.
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I'm guessing it is either St. Anns or Bryn Eglwys. Haven't come across a senior citizen in the area to ask yet.
Some of the graves have very large trees growing out of them so I'd say this cemetary hasn't been touched for at least 10 years.
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[Gwil]

Good and Bad news for you Welshgen

The good news (but I stand to be corrected)I believe it to be the old Tanysgafell Church. Put Tanysgafell into Oldmaps and it centres on that area.

The bad news is that it's already been transcribed. GFHS M270 refers.

I have looked up that MI recently at Caernarfon. If you have taken shots of a Rowlands family from Grisiau Cochion (just down the road, should be three graves) then it;s the right one.


Gwil

[WelshGen]

Thanks for the info Gwil, since I have covered almost the whole graveyard now then I may as well finish it, if only for my own reference.
It's my understanding that Welsh authorities are not obliged to maintain disused graveyards but in England they are, if requested by relatives of people interred.

[Gwil]

As a matter of interest whether I was right in my assertion are the Grisiau Cochion Rowlands' amongst your shots?

Gwil

[WelshGen]

Yes there are three Rowlands, Grisiau Cochion headstones next to each other. Have you any idea why this cemetary was abandoned?

[Gwil]

No, I don't know why it was abandoned. It looks a bit too far away from the encroaching waste tips that, I'm told,over ran other small communities in the area.I can't see anything by googling or on the County Archives/Bangor Uni online stuff.To tell the truth I didn't know it was there until I spotted the MI when I was looking for WW1 references and spotted my 3xG Grandmothers grave and those of her children. I thought they were at Glan Ogwen in Bethesda which is extremely overgrown at the moment (although, happily, I see that volunteers have been working hard in compiling a MI for it, yet to be published)
I made a sketch of the sketch that was in the MI to show location of the graves should I visit. That shows some sort of a building. Did it look like an abandoned church?

Gwil

[WelshGen]

Yes it is or rather was a church built entirely of slate with stone used to make the doorway and window frames. I'm halfway through putting the scans into a web page. Will post a link when I finish it.
Mervyn

[Gwil]

Thanks Mervyn.
Looking forward to seeing your site. You must have spent hours trudging round (maybe I've seen you when I've been looking for WW1 refernces!!).Do you plan to put the Glanadda ones on as well?

I've since remembered a book I had re Llandegai and Llanllechid by Hugh Derfel Hughes. He refers to the Tanysgrafell Church and Churchyard as having been built/sponsored by Colonel Pennant MP in 1847. It was linked to the nearby St Annes Church. There is nothing about it's abandonment (which is not surprising as it was written in around 1866!)

gwil

[WelshGen]

Yes I do intend to put the Glanadda cemetary online as well as St. Tysilio, Menai Bridge; Llansannon, Denbs; St. Cedol, Pentir;  St. Mary's, Tregarth; Llanaelhaearn and Aberdaron. Erm did I mention I'm transcribing the 1891 census for Bangor for the FREECEN site. I have my hands full