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Glamorgan - The Ministers

A resume of the careers of the Nonconformist Ministers

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Here is an alternative way to search this resource. You can now enter any location, not restricted to Glamorgan, and Ministers found matching the criteria will be displayed. Note, however, that if a Minister matches the criteria more than once he will be shown as many times as he matches. This is an 'insurance' when dealing with quite common names.

The 'Rule of Thumb' here is the least you enter the more you get. So, for example, entering 'D' for the First Name also returns 'David', 'Daniel' etc. and any middle names. However if you enter 'D.' only those matching entries are returned.

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'Inclusion' Notes

Ministers are included if they were resident in the 'County' and/or were pastors of a Church attached to an Association etc. as reported in the official publications of their respective denomination.

'as reported' is significant since, in particular to The Baptists, the English-speaking Associations were never attached to the Baptist Union of Wales yet for most years the detail appears in the 'Diary'. It has previously been mentioned that there is variance expecially with Churches that exist on the County border. A good example of this is the town of Bargoed since most Baptist churches appear in the Monmouthshire Associations. And also using this classification one finds Witton Park, Durham and Bristol within the 'County' of Glamorgan.

For the Wesleyans et seq. Ministers are quoted according to the circuit as opposed to the individual chapel within the circuit.

The Calvinistic Methodists have been treated a little differently. Ministers were both 'settled' and itinerant, that is preaching at chapels different to their pastorate or residence. Some Ministers were never pastors and this resource would be all the poorer were these to be omitted. 'Settlements' not linked to a formal pastorate are shown in a different colour and it is the residence that is quoted. In fact this can throw up some anomalies if the residence was only after general retirement but again I considered it more complete to include them. Please also note that records only existed from 1842 and Ministers ordained before this date are shown as from 1842 and not earlier.