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ABERCANAID IN THE PARISH OF MERTHYR TYDFIL, IS SITUATED 2 MILES SOUTH OF THE TOWN CENTRE OF MERTHYR TYDFIL. IT IS BETWEEN THE RIVER TAFF TO THE EAST AND THE GLAMORGANSHIRE CANAL (BUILT 1794) TO THE WEST. THE VILLAGE IS BORDERED BY 4 COLLIERIES, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE GRAIG PIT, OPENED BY LUCY THOMAS IN THE 1830'S. THE CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHAPEL GRAIG, WAS NAMED AFTER THE DISTRICT, THE GRAIG. IT WA...More Info
Both CD & Download contain details of obituaries between 1900 - 1909 taken from the Merthyr Express newspaper held by the Merthyr Tydfil Central Library. These obituaries were found throughout the newspaper in the form of death notices, an obituary column, accident reports, coroner's inquests and funeral reports. The Merthyr Tydfil Branch of the Glamorgan FHS began transcribing the obituaries and ...More Info
The CD and Download contents which were transcribed up to 2014 are : - History of the Chapel, a Graveyard diagram, Surname index, M.I.s, Photos of the Chapel and a small selection of graves. The Cemetery sits to the North of Pencoed next to the St David's Church in Wales Church.
The CD (part 2) and Download contain details of obituaries between 1910 - 1919 taken from the Merthyr Express newspaper held by the Merthyr Tydfil Library. These obituaries were found throughout the newspaper in the form of death notices, an obituary column, accident reports, coroner's inquests and funeral reports. The Merthyr Tydfil Branch of the Glamorgan FHS began transcribing the obituaries an...More Info
The first of two volumes by Ben Fieldhouse and Jackie Dunn, published by the Society, giving details of mining accidents that occurred in the valleys of South Wales from the nineteenth century onwards, with lists of names of casualties. 82 pages (1992).