Status: Ecclesiastical Parish
Alternative names: Newton Welsh, Welsh Mewton
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1758
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
- Llangarron
- Ganarew
- Whitchurch
- Garway
- Llanrothal
- Dixton Newton
- Monmouth
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
NEWTON (Welsh), a parish, with a village, in the district of Monmouth and county of Hereford; adjacent to Monmouthshire, 3½ miles N by W of Monmouth r.station. Post-town, Monmouth. Acres, 1,821. Real property, £1, 785. Pop., 226. Houses, 54. The living.is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £47. Patron, Sir J. Bailey.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Directories
Welsh Newton Cassey Directory of Herefordshire 1858
Welsh Newton is a township, parish, and village, 8 miles south-west from Ross railway station, 3 ½ north from Monmouth, 14 ½ south from Hereford, and 129 from London, in Weolmelow [sic] Hundred, Monmouth Union, Harewood’s End petty sessional division, Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric; it is situated on the Hereford and Monmouth road, on the borders of Monmouthshire, and part of the parish is in that county. The church is a plain old stone building, with small tower, in the Norman style, in good repair; it has nave, porch, chancel, font, and two bells. The living is a rectory, worth £47 yearly; Rev. H. Prosser is the incumbent. There is a chapel for Wesleyans on Newton Common. The population, in 1851, was 248; and the acreage is 1,821. The soil is loamy; the subsoil is clay and rock.
Newton Common, Callow, Pembridge Castle, Great House, Summer House, Mill Farm, Tremahaid, and Gwenherion, are places here.
Letters through Monmouth, which is the nearest money order office.
Miscellaneous
Davis James, stonemason, Newton common
Dyser Charles, Esq., Newton lodge
George Timothy, boot and shoe maker
Palmer John, Red Lion Inn
Palmer John, mason
Silvey James, boot and shoe maker and parish clerk
Powell Edward, Elephant and Castle Inn
Wells John, blacksmith
Williams James, carpenter and shopkeeper
Farmers
Bartrum John
Bills George, Tremahaid
Davis John
Evans Wm., Mill farm
Frances Thomas
Kettle Jonas, Pembridge castle
Lane Henry, Gwenherion
Lock George, Greathouse
Wheeler Mrs. Jane, Callow hill
Wilcox Daniel, Summer house
Source: Edward Cassey & Co.: History, Topography, and Directory of Herefordshire. Printed by William Bailey, 107, Fishergate 1858.
Parish Records
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Birth Marriage and Death Records
England, Herefordshire Bishop’s Transcripts, 1583-1898
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
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England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008
England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
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Census Records
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England and Wales Census, 1891
England and Wales Census, 1901
England and Wales National Register, 1939
Probate and Court Records
England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957
Military Records
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Administration
County: Herefordshire
Civil Registration District: Monmouth
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Hereford
Rural Deanery: Archenfield
Poor Law Union: Monmouth
Hundred: Wormelow
Province: Canterbury