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Title: MELINDWR
Post by: kprobes on Monday 30 January 06 20:58 GMT (UK)

CAN ANYONE HELP.  I HAVE ON A BIRTH CERTIFICATE THE RESIDENCE OF MELINDWR.   IS THIS A DISTRICT IN ABERYSTWYTH. THE CERTIFICATE WAS DATED 1885.

Title: Re: MELINDWR
Post by: karenbest500 on Monday 30 January 06 22:07 GMT (UK)

in 1891 llanbadarn road was classed as being in the district of melindwr in cardiganshire where your hughes were living but it doesn't mention aberystwyth
                  karen

Title: Re: MELINDWR
Post by: davierj on Monday 06 February 06 11:01 GMT (UK)

Hi
Melindwr was a township in Llanbadarn Fawr Parish which covers the area east of Llabadarn Fawr village to include Capel Bangor and Goginan.   As such I would guess it comes under Aberystwyth District
Cheers Dave

Title: Re: MELINDWR
Post by: cardiff on Wednesday 08 February 06 07:51 GMT (UK)

Kelly's Directory   
South Wales 1895
The data below has been extracted by Gareth Hicks (February 2004) with the kind permission of the publishers from the CD of the same title as the main heading.  For more books from Archive CD Books see their web page.
Place names are as written unless clearly misleading.


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Melindwr (or Capel Bangor) is a township in the county of Cardigan, formed with Parcel Canol into an ecclesiastical parish 11 June, 1844, from the parish of Llanbadarn Vawr, and is 5 miles east from Aberystwyth, on the road to Llanidloes, in the hundred of Geneu'r-Glyn, petty sessional division of Geneu'r-Glyn-Lower, union and county court district of Aberystwyth, and in the rural deanery of Llanbadarnfawr, archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St. David's.

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cheers cardiff