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Title: *COMPLETED*Capel y Gwrhyd
Post by: GPJ on Friday 12 November 10 22:19 GMT (UK)

Hi.
Does anybody have any information on where could I find the records for Capel y Gwrhyd on the Gwrhyd mountain?

Thanks

Title: Re: Capel y Gwrhyd
Post by: Morganllan on Saturday 13 November 10 00:33 GMT (UK)

Hello  :)

Glamorgan FHS have published an index of Memorial Inscriptions for the graveyard at Capel y Gwrhyd Independent Chapel

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wlsglfhs/book2.htm

Morgan

Title: Re: Capel y Gwrhyd
Post by: Morganllan on Saturday 13 November 10 00:40 GMT (UK)

There is a book History of y Gwrhyd by Joshua Lewis, Penydderi, Llangiwg in 1897.

There is an English index on Genuki for Llangiwg which mentions some people of Gwrhyd:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Llangiwg/Gwrhyd.html

You may be able to get the book from the library or second hand bookshop  :)

Title: Re: Capel y Gwrhyd
Post by: Morganllan on Saturday 13 November 10 00:43 GMT (UK)

Glamorgan Lookup Exchange has a member willing to do lookups for Gwrhyd Chapel (by email):

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~walesle/gla/mi.htm

Title: Re: Capel y Gwrhyd
Post by: Morganllan on Saturday 13 November 10 00:50 GMT (UK)

There are a couple of photos of the Chapel on Gareth Hicks site:

http://www.tytwp.plus.com/Waun/Gwrhyd.html

Best wishes
Morgan

Title: Re: Capel y Gwrhyd
Post by: GPJ on Saturday 13 November 10 10:19 GMT (UK)

Thank you very much for the information, I am hoping that the contact on the lookup exchange will come up trumps.

diolch

GPJ