Census Records

Census returns for The Rhondda 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 (microfilm).

 Census Indexes

1841 Census for Glamorgan (CD-ROM)

1851 Census for Glamorgan (CD-ROM).

1861 Census for Glamorgan (CD-ROM).

1881 Wales and most English Counties on Fiche, CD-ROM  

            for United Kingdom.

1891 Census of Glamorgan (CD-ROM)

1891 Cwm Rhondda Census (CD -ROM)

1891 Census of Aberdare (CD-ROM)

1891 Census East Glamorgan Parishes,invluding Gelligaer,

          Llantrisant, Eglwsilian,  Llanwonno (CD-ROM)

International Genealogical Index  (IGI)

1984 Edition for England and Wales: contains records that list dates and places of birth, christenings, and marriages. Includes people who lived any time after the early 1500s up through the early 1900s. These names have been researched and extracted from thousands of original records.

Electoral Registers

(Voters Lists)

Rhondda East and West Constituency 1918 - 1970.

Rhondda Constituency 1971 to date (1978 missing).

Newspapers/Magazines

Rhondda Chronicle 1884 - 1898 microfolm (positive)

Rhondda Leader 1897 - 1943 microfilm (negative).

Rhondda Leader 1944 - 1990 microfilm (positive).

Rhondda Leader 1994 - to date, microfilm (positive).

Rhondda Leader 1944 - 1993 bound volumes.

South Wales Echo 1987 to date, microfilm.

Western Mail 1948 to date, microfilm.

The Ocean and National magazine 1928 - 1940

Pontypridd District Herald 1878 (9Feb.  28 Dec.). 1879, 1880, 1881 (1 Jan. - 7 May), 1884 (only 12 Apr.), 1890 (6 Dec. - 27 Dec.), 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894 (6 Jan. - 11 Aug.)

Parish Records

Ystradyfodwg Parish - Bishop’s Transcripts:  Marriages 1842,

Baptisms 1867, Burials 1867 (all on Microfilm).

Ystradyfodwg Marriages 1837 - 1900 (CD-ROM, includes only those marriages performed at the Parish Church)

All Saints Church Maerdy:  Register of Banns 1886 - 1928

Nebo Chapel, Ystrad:  Burial Inscriptions, Baptist Register 1795 - 1849

St. Albans Church, Treherbert: Banns of Marriage 1891 - 1915,

1922 - 1958, 1958 - 1964, 1972 - 1982  (surname index available)

All Saints, Treherbert:  1945 - 1963  (surname index available)

Parish of Treherbert, Confirmation Records:  1950 - 1960 (surname index available)

Glamorgan Baptism Index 1569-1837 (CD-ROM)

Trade Directories

Maps

Tithe maps and schedule - Ystradyfodwg Parish. (c.1841)

Ordnance Survey Maps – County Series 1st edition 

                                             c. 1875 Rhondda

                                               County Series 2nd edition

                                              c 1900 Rhondda                               

                                               County Series 3rd edition

                                                c1920 Rhondda

Monumental Inscriptions

Published by G.F.H.S, copies relevant to the Rhondda purchased as and when available.

Aberffrwyd Cemetery, Mountain Ash, monumental inscriptions (CD-ROM)

Llanharan Cemetery, Monumental Inscriptions (CD-ROM

Burial Records and Internment Records

Treorchy Cemetery 1871 - 1991

Trealaw Cemetery 1881 - 1990.

Ferndale Cemetery 1877 - 1991

Penrhys Cemetery 1929 - 1991.

Colliery Records

Payment Books:                           

Dare Pit              September 1877 - February 1879.

Eastern Pit              February 1882 - December 1882.

Maindy Pits              April 1912 - August 1912.

Maindy Pits              May 1911 - October 1911.

Parc Pit              1907.

Register of Ordinary Accidents:       

Ocean Collieries              1902 - 1906.

Ocean Collieries              1906 - 1908.

Colliers Coal and Dead Work Pay Account:

Dare Pit              October 1874 - February 1877.

Dare Pit              March 1877 - June 1879.

Maindy Pit              February 1878 - November 1879.

Compensation Payment Book:

Abergorky Collieries              July 1916 - August 1925.

Register of Accidents:

Ocean Collieries              October 1912 - March 1914.

Royalty and Way-Leave Accounts:

Ocean Collieries              February 1924 - May 1935.

School Admission Registers

Blaenrhondda Infants School: (1909 - 1924), (1924 - 1927), (1946 - 1999).

Blaenrhondda Junior School:  (1935 - 1978).

Blaenycwm Infants School: (1899 - 1913), (1913 - 1939), (1939 - 1946), (1944 - 1953).   

Blaenycwm Junior School: (1917 - 1941), (1940 - 1997).

Bodringallt Junior School: (1944 - 1963), (1961 - 1994).

Dunraven Infants School: (1893 - 1913), (1913 - 1920), (1920 - 1932), (1932 - 1944), (1944 - 1949), (1944 - 1971)   

Dunraven Junior Mixed School: (1872 - 1891), (1932 - 1943),

    (1942 - 1959), (1959 - 1994).

Gelli Infants School: (1908 - 1914), (1914-1922), (1922-1932), (1932-1942), (1942-1964).   

Gelli Junior School: (1893-1914), (1927-1938), (1938-1953), (1953-1970).

Gelli Girls School: (1915-1929).

Maerdy Infants School, boys 1897-1903, girls 1898-1904 (CD-ROM)

Park Infants School, Cwmparc: (1892-1905), (1901-1910), (1910-1916).

Pengelli Infants School, Cwmparc: (1914-1922).

Pentre Junior Boys: (1928-1949).

Pentre Junior Girls: (1896-1912), (1922-1938), (1936-1949).

Pentre Infants School: (1929-1940), (1941-1948), (1943-1960).

Penyrenglyn Infants School: (1947 - 1969)

Penyrenglyn Junior Boys School: (1929 - 1940), (1940 - 1957),

    (1957 - 1964)

Penyrenglyn Junior Girls School: (1939 - 1956), (1956 - 1966).

Penyrenglyn Junior Mixed School: (1965 - 1981).

Ton Pentre Junior Mixed School: (1871-1877), (1892-1908), (1903-1921).

Ton Pentre Girls School: (1893 - 1911), (1911-1929), (1929-1940), (1941-1965), (1965-1969).   

Ton Pentre Boys School: (1880-1892), (1892-1908), (1921-1933), (1933- 1969).   

Treherbert Infants School: (1938 - 1949), (1945 - 1948), (1949 - 1979).

Treorchy Infants School: (1941-1952), (1943-1948), (1952-1978).

Treorchy Junior Mixed School: (1929 -1933), (1933-1940), (1940-1945).

Ynyswen Infants School: (1893 - 1906), (1906 - 1918), (1918 - 1926), (1926 - 1937), (1937 - 1946), (1945 - 1985), (1945 - 1949 under 5’s).  

Other Material

Ystradyfodwg School Board, Register of Teachers 1900-1916 (surname index available).

Nurse Buxton, Midwife, Register of Cases: 1914-1936 (surname index available).

Ordnance Survey maps covering most of the Rhondda in 1875.

Reports of Inspectors of Coal Mines: List of Fatal Accidents 1852-1914  (South Wales).

Mining Deaths In Great Britain 1890 - 1914.

Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914 - 1919 (Cd-Rom)

Mormon immigration Index (Cd-Rom)