Tag: history
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Cellan’s Lending Library: Education in a Small Welsh Place
It was a day like any other in the Welsh parish of Cellan, September 25th, 1765, when a small iron chest arrived at the doors of All Saints’ Anglican Church. A special delivery, the first of its kind, for the Rev. Williams. Heavy, despite its size, the chest was lugged onto a sturdy wooden pew…
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Protect our Access to Historical Wills!
Do you want to help protect our access to Welsh and English wills? Family historians use wills all the time and our ability to access them through the Probate Search Service is an invaluable boon to our work. The cost of wills has been £1.50 for a number of years, but the UK Ministry of…