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Subject: Capel Als - Llanelly parish
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 06:55:04 EDT

Hello

Find below extracts about CAPEL ALS INDEPENDENT Church.

Cause Began: 1770
Chapels: 1780; enlarged 1797; 1831; 1853
Location: Marble Hall Road, town and parish of Llanelly
Branch of: Ty newydd, Llanedi until about 1810.
Periods of Growth: During the ministry of David Rees (1829-69) At the
beginning of his ministry there were 250 members. By 1873 there were 900 on
the books.

Records Available: (1) births and baptisms, 1808-37; deaths 1831-37 PRO,
London RG4/4060 and RG4/1687 (GS828112) IGI (2) Register of baptisms
1837-1904 NLW (3) Register of marriages, 1837-70 and of burials 1842-51
NLW. (4) Building committee minutes, 1852-53; also 4 certificates of
transfer of membership 1866-69 NLW. (5) Registers of members 1832-68;
1909-23 contributions by the church to various causes, 1863-64 NLW. (6)
Sunday School teachers attendance register, 1856-84; also notes on teachers
meetings, 1856-77 NLW. (7) Sunday school attendance register 1897-1929 NLW
(8) Band of Hope register, 1905-09 (9) Account book of money collected by
members and paid to the poor. 1855-72 (10) Account book of receipts and
expenditures 1867-79 NLW. (11) Box of material mainly correspondence and
printed materilas, two registers of certificates of transfer granted to
members of Capel Als moving to other churches, 1867-1902, 1903-19 NLW. (12)
List of subscriptions received on promise towards rebuilding the chapel,
1830. NLW Ms1168A

This concludes the lengthy report on Capel ALS - I believe that the LDS
would have these details? If not most of these are kept at Carmarthen RO if
anyone has an interest in Capel Als.

Regards
Pauline James
Carmarthenshire FHS
http://members.aol.com/cmnfhs

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