Glamorgan Family History

Find your Glamorgan ancestors and relatives with this list of family history, genealogy and local history records and resources online.

Archives

• Glamorgan Archives
• West Glamorgan Archives

BMDs and Parish Records

• Caerphilly Births, Marriages and Deaths
• Births, Deaths and Marriages in Glamorgan Gazette
• FreeBMD
• Glamorgan Baptisms
• Glamorgan Marriages
• Glamorgan Marriage Index 1569-1869
• Glamorgan Burials
• The Registers of Llantrithyd
  This volume includes Christenings 1597-1810, Marriages 1571-1752 and Burials 1571-1810.

Burials & Cemeteries

• Glamorgan Burial Index 1569-1983
• Glamorgan Monumental Inscription Index
  Records from 1570 to 1976.
• Penrhys Cemetery Burials

Census Records

• Census 1841-1921
  Search more than 7,200,000 census and 1939 register records for the county of Glamorgan. The register is the closet thing to a census, and the most recent available.
• FreeCen
  Has a good, but not complete, selection of free census records.

Criminals and Convicts

• Criminal Ancestor Records

Electoral Registers

• Electoral Registers 1832-1932
• West Glamorgan Electoral Registers 1839-1925

Forums

• RootsChat Glamorgan

Historical Directories

• Cardiff Commercial Directory 1858-1859
• Cardiff Commercial Directory 1880
• Swansea and District Directory 1913-1914
• Wales Historical Directories

Local History

• Aberafan Local History
  Has some good information about people and places in history (Archived).
• GENUKI Glamorgan
• Glamorganshire Place Names
• Old Merthyr Tydfil
• The History and Antiquities of Glamorgan
  This old publication includes old families of Glamorganshire, sheriffs, bishops mayors, magistrates, and county families.
• The Story of Glamorgan

Maps

• Old Maps of Glamorgan

Military Records

• British Military Records
• Glamorgan Roll of Honour

Newspaper Archives

• Cambrian Index
• British Newspaper Collection 1710-1953

Occupations

• Cardiff Mariners
• Glamorgan Coal Mines
• Glamorgan Photographers 1850-1925
• High Sheriffs of Glamorgan
• South Wales Police Roll of Honour
• Swansea Mariners
  Swansea Mariners contains a worldwide list of mariners, ships crew, seamen, sailing ships, ships registered at Swansea Wales, details from crew agreements ship’s log books and ship’s registry.

Schools and Education

• Aberdare Boys’ Grammar School 1896-1978
• Aberdare County Grammar School for Girls 1913-1978
• Glamorgan Schools Admission Registers

Societies and Groups

• Glamorgan Family History Society

Surnames

• Glamorgan Surnames 1881

Wills and Probate

• Cardiff Wills 1470-1778
  
• Swansea Wills Index 1564-1868

Workhouses & Poor Law

• Bridgend & Cowbridge Workhouse
• Cardiff Workhouse
• Gower Workhouse
• Merthyr Tydfil Workhouse
• Neath Workhouse
• Pontardawe Workhouse
• Pontypridd Workhouse

About Glamorganshire

This county, bounded on the south and west by the Bristol Channel, on the east by Monmouthshire, and on the north by Brecknockshire and Carmarthenshire, has an extreme length from east to west of 53 miles, and an extreme breadth from the shore to the interior of 27 miles.

Its superficial measurement is estimated at about 792 square miles. It is the third in size of the counties of Wales, being exceeded by Carmarthenshire and Montgomeryshire; but taking into account its subterranean and surface productions, it far exceeds in actual value any other county in Wales, and perhaps any other region of equal size in Great Britain.

The population of this county under the last five censuses has shown a ratio of increase far surpassing that of any other county in the United Kingdom, and offers to the moralist, the political economist, and politician, a problem of the greatest interest.

The history and Antiquities of Glamorganshire and its Families by Thomas Nicholas

Population

• 1801 – 71,523
• 1831 – 126,200
• 1841 – 171,188
• 1851 – 231,849
• 1861 – 317,752
• 1871 – 396,010
• 1911 – 1,120,910

Most Common Surnames 1881

1. Jones
2. Davies
3. Thomas
4. Williams
5. Evans