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Offline baytree1970

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Manordeilo marriage bonds
« on: Wednesday 30 August 23 12:33 BST (UK) »
LDS have images of the original Welsh marriage bonds and I'm interested in browsing bonds for the Manordeilo area. Problem is, which volume to look in?! I believe it's in St David's diocese, but even then, lots of volumes... any idea which one might apply to Manordeilo, or any general advice on navigating this resource?

Here's the link to the bonds on LDS:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-894K-JPDD?owc=41WT-921%3A383499701%3Fcc%3D2040546&wc=41WT-S2D%3A383499701%2C384178701&cc=2040546

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Re: Manordeilo marriage bonds
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 30 August 23 15:26 BST (UK) »
Marriage Bonds are organised by diocese and date but not by parish.  My method of finding them in the LDS images is by first finding out the date of the Bond by searching the National Library of Wales (NLW) index of Marriage Bonds here:

https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/catalogues/specialist-catalogues/marriage-bonds

Having a date makes it easier to go to the batch of LDS St Davids diocese records for the relevant time period and work through them to find the record. 

Beware, though, LDS may have some of the dioceses mixed up.  When I last used these images, last year I think, St David's was lumped in with Llandaff.  I haven't followed your link to check whether this is still the case.  A few months ago the images seemed to have disappeared, so maybe this has been corrected.

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Hotham, Guilliatt, Brown, Winter, Buck, Webster, Mortimore
Richards, Meredith, Gower, Davies, Todd, Westmacott, Hill
Mid C19 Cardiff and Haverfordwest, the Marychurch family.