File NLW MS 10787C. - Capel-y-ffin Baptist church register,

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NLW MS 10787C.

Title

Capel-y-ffin Baptist church register,

Date(s)

  • [1921]. (Creation)

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Scope and content

A typescript copy of a register of the Particular Baptist Church of Capel-y-ffin, parish of Llanigon, Brecknockshire, and of Tabernacle, Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire, and its other branches, covering, with many interruptions, the period 1737-1921. It contains records of births, baptisms, deaths, and dismissals of church members; accounts of the opening of new chapels at Llanvihangel Crucorney, 1837, and at Foothog in the parish of Cwmyoy, 1838, and of a room at 'the Henllan' in Cwmyoy, 1839, and of Jubilee meetings at Capel-y-ffin and Tabernacle, Cwmyoy, 1842; accounts of the ordination of ministers; registers of members; financial accounts; etc.

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Accruals

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Conditions governing access

Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English
  • Welsh

Script of material

Language and script notes

English, Welsh.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 247.

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Existence and location of originals

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Related units of description

The original register, begun about 1794, can be found at NLW Minor Deposits, 182A, and contains entries in the hand of Morgan Lewis from 1834 to 1874. The earlier entries in the register, from 1737 to 1794, were copied out of the 'Old decayd Register Book'.

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Publication note

Descriptions of the volume appear in Donald Attwater's articles 'Primitive Nonconformity in Wales' in Welsh Outlook, June 1926, pp. 146-9, and 'Early Nonconformity in Wales' in Pax, 1927, pp. 303-17.

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Title based on contents.

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 10787C.

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vtls004577350

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

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Dates of creation revision deletion

October 2008.

Language(s)

  • English

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Archivist's note

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Cronfa Capeli on-line;

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