Baptist records Llanfrechfa

[Marmaduke 123]

Does anyone know where I might find the birth/dedications for the various Baptist chapels in Llanfrechfa? I am looking for records regarding the Francis family in the early 1800s.

Anne

[Wendi]

Hi Anne

Gwent Records Office might hold some, or maybe know where else to inquire

http://www.llgc.org.uk/cac/cac0004.htm

Wendi 

[Marmaduke 123]

Thanks Wendy, I have emailed them.

Anne

[gofarby]

Hi Anne
One site which might help is http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monfamilies/llanfrecprt.htm
Like you, I am interested in the Francis family living in Llanfrechfa.   My great grandfather was Benjamin Francis b15 March 1849 who married twice.   His first wife was Elizabeth (surname unknown) and they had one child, William George b1872.  His second wife was Ester Ann Roberts and they had 11 children - Henry b1872, Leonard & Sarah Ann (twins) b1885, Leonard b1888, Stanley b1890, Ivor b1892, Sylvanus b1893, Blodwen b1895, Elizabeth b1897, Arthur b1900 and Elsie b1902.

Are we researching the same family?

[Marmaduke 123]

Hello Gofarby

Welcome to Rootschat!

Mike John's monfamilies is a fantastic resource isn't it? I found the marriage of my George Francis and his wife Cecilia Rogers on there some time ago. They married in LLanfrechfa on 23 April 1825, and both give their birthplace as Llanfrechfa on census returns. It appears that George was born around 1804, and Cecilia around 1806, but neither were baptised there or anywhere else in the area that I have found.

They had at least ten children - no baptisms for any of them, or definite civil registrations for the youngest ones. Their youngest daughter Mary married in a baptist church in 1864, into my husband's family who definitely were not non conformist. I think therefore that George and Cecilia must have been, especially as there are many marriages in Llanfrechfa around that time of members of the Francis and Rogers families who were not baptised there.

George and his sons were all tinmen - I think a lot of them were non conformist and the records (if any) don't seem to have survived. Unfortunately I don't know their origins, or how if at all they are related to your family.

Anne