Hengoed Baptist Chapel, Records

Records of the Hengoed Baptist Chapel, Ystrad Mynach, 1801-1876: register of births, 1801-1839; record book, containing a short history of the chapel, 1867, a register of members, 1828-1876, and balance sheets, 1861-1875; and register of burial ground, 1745-1871.

The Baptist cause at Hengoed, Ystrad Mynach, Glamorgan, appears to have begun about 1650, with the assistance of the older Baptist church at Ilston. Its first chapel was opened in 1710, at Cefn Hengoed, but little is known about its early history, and what survives is largely anecdotal. The chapel was re-built in 1829, and the growth of the Baptist cause in the area led to the establishment of several daughter chapels in the Rhymney valley and Merthyr Tydfil area, notably Bryn Miser, at Pengam, in 1832.

Register of births, April 1801-April 1839, will not be produced if there is a facsimile available in the Copy Searchroom.

Deposited by the Hengoed Baptist Church on 16 February 1989 & 17 August 1999.

A hard copy of the catalogue is available at the Glamorgan Record Office.

Compiled by Hayden Burns for the ANW project. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Glamorgan Record Office, schedule for Hengoed Baptist Chapel, Gelligaer; Edmunds, Morgan, The New Hengoediana, (Merthyr Tydfil, 1910); Bassett, Tim, Bedyddwyr Cymru (Swansea, 1977). The earlier history of Hengoed is given in Hengoediana (1861) by Llewelyn Jenkins, son of John Jenkins, and a printer in Cardiff, and in The New Hengoediana (1910), by Morgan Edmunds.

Normal Glamorgan Record Office conditions apply.

All records which meet the collection policy of the Glamorgan Archives have been retained. The burial ground register (DBAP53/3) was formerly scheduled as Hen Dy Cwrdd (DWBAP13/1).

Accruals are not expected.

For a history of the church see 'The new Hengoediana' GA library reference 2/5. The graveyard has been recorded and the record cards are held under DMT40.