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Graham Davies

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Parish of Dinas.

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The parish of Dinas lies within the Hundred of Cemaes.

It has borders with four parishes, also all in the Hundred of Cemaes.

These are Fishguard, Llanllower, Llanychlwydog and Newport. The northern border is shared with the Irish Sea.

The Parish Registers are understood to commence in 1676.

Dinas - St. Brynach.

This living is a rectory which appears to have been from the earliest time in the patronage of the Lords of Kemes as appendant to their Barony of Kemes.

Dinas Church was in 1291 assessed at £2 6s 8d (£2.33).---Taxatio

Dynas.---Ecclesia ibidem dicti Domini de Awdeley unde Willimus Kyllyk est rector valet communibus annis clare £8. Inde decima 16s (£0.80).---Valor Eccl.

Under the heading ' Livings Discharged ':---Dinas alias Dynas R. (St. Brynach). Dom de Audley, olim patr.; William Langharne, Esq., 1708, and William Lloyd, Esq., Lords of Kemys; Thomas Lloyd, Esq., and Anne his wife, 1753; John Bateman, 1784. Clear yearly value, £42. King's Books, £8.---Bacon's Liber Regis.

On 8 Nov., 1859, the schoolroom was licenced for divine service on account on the dectruction of the church. This is no boubt the date when the sea encroached on the shore, and washed away a portion of the old church, known as Cwm yr Eglwys Church, the ruins of part of which are stioll to be seen at the little cove called Cwm yr Eglwys, situated at the north end of the small valley between what is known as Dinas Island and the mainland.

On 15 April, 1887, a faculty was granted for the removal of the body of Harriet Mary Mansfield from Dinas Churchyard to the churchyard of the parish of Thornton Le Moors, in the county of Chester.

Rectors.

1398 William Peek
1398 Sep 10 Henry Cottesmore, vice William Peek, resigned.
1401 Jul 20 John Walyngton, vice Henry Cottesmore, resigned.
1404 Robert Eggerley
1404 Sep 1 John Creyr, vice Robert Eggerley, resigned.
1425 Jul Howell ap Jevan Llewellyn
1517 William Howell
1517 Oct 29 [William] Kyllyke, vice William Howell, deceased.
1554 Aug 20 John Lloyd
1597 John Harries
1615 Hugh Thomas
1640 Aug 12 William Owen
Henry Miles
1681 Jun 18 Richard Swain
1709 Feb 8 Arthur Laugharne, vice [Richard Swaine], deceased.
1753 Apr 11 William Laugharne, vice Arthur laugharne, deceased.
1784 Jun 17 Thomas Bateman, M.A., vice William Laugharne, deceased.
1825 Jun 15 Daniel Bowen, M.A., vice Thomas Bateman, deceased.
1836 Apr 13 Watkin William Thomas, B.D., vice Daniel Bowen, M.A., resigned.
1858 May 5 John William, vice Watkin William Thomas, deceased.
1875 Nov 16 Isaac Hughes Jones, vice John Williams, deceased.
1879 Sep 11 James Williams, vice Isaac Hughes Jones, M.A., instituted to Nevern.
1905 Dec 18 William Glynfab Williams, vice James Williams, deceased.

Graham Davies, © 2001.


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