History – The first chapel on this site was built in 1745 to replace an earlier meeting house at Rhosgerdd nearby. It was a small building with a thatched roof and no gallery. A date-stone was positioned on the wall. There were 27 members in the first congregation, and Rev. David Thomas was the...
Read more →History: The house was built c.1906 and Messrs. H. O. Davies and John Bowen were the builders employed (the former is named with the date 1906 on a beam). D. Nicholas of Brooklyn Villas offered the newly-built property for sale or let in May 1906. In 1911 the following persons lived here: John Timothy...
Read more →History: In 1835-70 Anne George was the publican. In 1851 Anne George, 65, lived here with servant Catherine Jones, 23. In 1861 the following persons lived here: Anne George, 74, widow, baker; Catherine Llewelyn, 33, niece, baker’s assistant; Catherine Llewelyn, 2, niece’s daughter; and Elizabeth Jones, 62, sister-in-law, mariner’s widow. On May 25th 1870...
Read more →History: The name means ‘Wooded Hill’. On 21st April 1713 George Lloyd of Alltycoed died. On 10th September 1714 Sydney Lloyd, widow of George Lloyd, lived here as did Erasmus Lloyd, their son. The deeds of Alltycoed date from 1741. In 1748 the name “Alltycoed” appears in Lewis Morris’ plan of Cardigan Bay, Bar...
Read more →History – The site was probably the location of one of the medieval mills of St. Dogmaels, which survived until the 16th Century at least. The site appears vacant on the 1838 tithe map. The present building was constructed in 1886, probably for Thomas Jones, with stone quarried from the Abbey ruins. In 1891...
Read more →History: The name means ‘The Mill’. A fulling mill in St. Dogmaels was recorded in 1291. Two mills were demised to John Bradshaw in 1537, having belonged to the Abbey. They were unoccupied at the time of the Dissolution. The mills were confirmed as John Bradshaw’s possessions by a charter of 1544 from King...
Read more →History: A private house called Penystar or Penystare stood just south of the present Vicarage from at least the turn of the 18th Century, perhaps as early as 1670. On 4th April 1720 Stephen Parry of Noyadd Trefawr leased Penystar to William Rowland and others. In 1773 David Lewis of Penstar became a Warden...
Read more →History: The building was erected in 1830 for Morris Owen of Cwmgloyn to plans by Daniel Evans, architect. A woollen mill was founded at St. Dogmaels in 1870, probably here. In 1900-14 this was Cambrian Mills – a woollen mill run by Thomas Lewelyn Williams of the Briars (Parc-y-Ffrier). On 22nd August 1902 it...
Read more →History: Sincerity was named after the 39-ton St. Dogmaels sloop, ‘Sincerity’, built at Cardigan in 1839. Daniel Griffiths was the original Master of that vessel in 1840 and had the property built and then lived here. On 15th March 1856 Ann Griffiths, wife of Daniel Griffiths of Sincerity, died aged 26. The ship ‘Sincerity’...
Read more →History: The house was built ca1870. On 26th August 1896 Sarah Elizabeth Davies, daughter of Captain Thomas Davies of Princess Villa, died aged 8 months. On 28th March 1905 Captain Thomas Davies of this address died aged 45. On 19th September 1905 Mary Ann Davies, daughter of the late Captain Thomas Davies, died aged...
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