East Gwent area Look-ups

For the past ten years Richard Roynon of Talywain and Warren Lewis of Pontypool have been collecting as much information from the parish and non-conformist registers of the Eastern Valley to add to a computer database. 

These indexes, combined with the Free Press of Monmouthshire, Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1859-1939, accompanied by school admission records, local cemetery records that include, Panteg, Blaenavon and Llantarnam, Census, military indexes, International Genealogical Index (IGI 1992 Edition) for the whole of Wales, Lancashire, Cheshire and Ireland and other indexed material. Llanfrechfa Upper should be available by March.

To compliment the above material and provide information on areas that border our valley, they have transcribed the following archives of baptism, marriage and burial:- Monkswood, Aberystruth, Llanwenarth and New Tredegar. Nantyglo is well under way and should be finished by early February.

The total number of named persons on these indexes exceeds 800,000. This figure does not include any of the IGI references mentioned above or the 1881 Census for the United Kingdom. The earliest records there hold date from 1650 up to 2001.

They can provide you with a Family Tree of your ancestors accompanied with a full genealogical report of any schools attended, obituaries, inquests, and misdemeanours or wills, that they come across in there research.

They do not charge any set fee or hourly rate for any searches undertaken. However, if there is some information provided from the database, they would ask that you make a donation for the amount of material provided by them, to cover expenses which includes a small donation for the Friends of Varteg Graveyard. If a look-up ends with no information being found, then no donation would be expected.

This trust was set up to improve the access for visitors and maintain the graveyard in the best interests of the community. Unfortunately the graveyard was vandalised in 2002 to the tune of nearly £100,00 and is in need of whatever donations the public are willing to give, large or small.

Please email your enquiries to  Gwentree74@aol.com or by post to Richard Roynon, 20, Benton Villas, The Woodlands Talywain, NP47LD, Gwent, or Warren William Lewis, The Phaeton Broadway, Pontypool Gwent NP46HW.

Page created by Heather Faulkes 7th February 2002 - updated 15th February 2002