St Catwg's church, Neath >>>

[halfasheep]

not necessarily after any look-ups, but I was wondering if there are any more recent burial/baptism records from this church?

I've seen the GFHS booklet in my local library, but wasn;t sure if anyone out there may have more on this churchyard?

I've found some baptisms for my guys (between 1820 and 1840), but the records don't go late enough for burial's I'm after. I'm obviously making the assumption that they would be buried there having been baptised there, and I know they remained in the same area.

Not visited the graveyard either, so could anyone give me an indication of how overgrown is is, and the number of stones there - just weighing up whether it's worth tramping around there on my day off!

Thanks

[margaret davies]

 ;)Hi!, In answer to your questionss on Cadoxton churchyard, there are i would say hundreds of stones and this would be the best time of the year to look when all the grass etc has died down,,

[halfasheep]

Ah lovely - thanks.

Am looking forward to tramping around a new, damp, graveyard looking sinister 

[pippylong]

Hi,

I have a few relatives buried there.  I'm off to the West Glam Archives week after next, can I check anything for you?  I could also visit the graveyard and/or take photos,

Pip

[halfasheep]

Thanks for that, I'll be looking to possibly get down there at the end of the month. Like I say, I've already see the GFHS booklets, but there is one grave I'd love to find - Hubert Langlon Herbert Strick (1886 to 1907).

If you happen to come across this grave, I'd be very grateful if you could let me know roughly where it is in the cemetary - I'm hoping that he may be buried with or near my Evan's lot. I'd give you some of the other names, but I'm dealing with a lot of Female Evans who go missing through the various census returns, so I've no idea if they had died or married.

[chrisjen]

I visit St Catwg's regularly, as most of my family is buried there, I'll look out for your gravestone.   The burial registers for 1900 onwards are kept in the church, and you can arrange a visit to check these by contacting the vicarage in Cadoxton, if the burials you want to check are before this, they are at both Neath Archives, and West Glam Archives.

Last summer there were volunteers transcribing the inscriptions on the gravestones to put onto a website, but they did say it would be some time before it's available - I would think there'll be a great deal of demand for this!

Hope this helps,
Christine

[halfasheep]

ooh thank you for that - my local parish church is not that helpful in terms of the parish registers, but was lucky enough to be put onto an elderly gentleman who had transcribed all the burial records in the early 1990's

I'll certainly get in contact with the vicarage, and thanks for offering to keep an eye out for the grave for me - I'll have to bite the bullet and have a wander around myself at some point anyway 

[welshrow]

Hi,

My G.G.Grandfather and mother were married at Cadoxton Church in 1840. Is Cadoxton Church and St Catwgs, Cadoxton the same church? If not, does Cadoxton Church still exist?


 

[halfasheep]

Well my lot were from Duffryn Clydach/Bryncoch, and the onoy two churches I can see in the area are St Matthews and St Catwgs - I assume Catwgs is Cadoxton church as St Matthews is further up the valley - I could be wrong though