Welsh Journals

Some years ago Archdeacon Thomas suggested to me that I should collect some matters relative to the former owners of land in Kerry parish, not previously mentioned in Mr. Rowley Morris' history. I soon found that the Registers were of prime necessity to anyone working on the period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and with that view the four volumes which contain the Parish Registers up to the year 1812 were transcribed. The First Part comprises the first volume, copied by Mr. Basil Phillips, son of the Vicar of Kerry. It begins with the year 1602. As Kerry parish in those days contained the present parishes of Sarn, Kerry, and Dolfor, these Registers record the Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials of most of the inhabitants in the Upper Hundred of Montgomery. The Registers of Mochdre, the only other parish in the hundred, have also been transcribed, and I hope to see the complete record published in the course of time. INTRODUCTION. J. B. WILLANS.