Discover your Welsh ancestors through the Montgomeryshire Baptisms. Through these records, find out your ancestor’s parents’ names, their residence and their occupations. The records document baptismal information centuries before civil registration of births in Wales, which makes them a valuable source for your family history.
Discover your Welsh ancestors through the Montgomeryshire Baptisms. Through these records, find out your ancestor’s parents’ names, their residence and their occupations. The records document baptismal information centuries before civil registration of births in Wales, which makes them a valuable source for your family history.
Each of the Montgomeryshire Baptisms records includes a transcript of the original baptismal registers. The amount of material in each transcript can fluctuate, but most will include:
Montgomeryshire is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales. The county was abolished and amalgamated with Radnorshire and Breconshire to create the county of Powys in 1974. The records also includes the villages of Mallwyd and Llanymawddwy of the historic county of Merionethshire, which bordered Montgomeryshire. The two towns were considered under the Montgomeryshire jurisdiction at different times and therefore included in these records.