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598 PENMA~. SOUTH WALES. [KELLY'S -" i' >• Fost Office.-Samuel Morris, sub-postmaster. Letters Brynau, Cheriton, Ilstvn, Kne1ston, Llandewy, Llan through Swansea arrive at 7.15 a.m.; dispatched 6.30 gennith, Llanmadock, Higher & Lower Llanrhidian, p.m. Postal orders' are issued here, but not paid. Nicholaston, Oxwich, Oystermouth, Pe-nmaen, Pennard, The nearest money order office is at Park Mill, & Penrice, Port Eynon, Reynoldston & Rhossili; the telegraph office at Reynoldston population of the union in 1891 was II,107; area, Wall Letter Box, cleared at 5.50 p.m.; no> sunday 40,739 acres; rateable value in 1894, £46,695 collection Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, John GlamOl'ganshire Magistrates for Gower Petty Sessional Beynon, Hazelwuod, Oysterm<luth Division. Treasurer, Richa·rd John Letoher, Glamorganshire Bank, Penrice Tho1mas esq. D.L. Kilvrough house, Swansea, Swansoo: chairman Relieving, Vaccination &; School Inquiry Officer for the Vivian Hon. John Aubrey D.L. Pare-le-Breos, Swansea. Union, Silvanu8 Bevan, Port Eynon }[I()ITis Major Sir Robt. Armine bart.Sketty park,Swansea Collectors to the Guardians, Thomas Roberts, Higher Lyons Admiral Sir Algernon MacLennan K. C.B. D.L. Llanrhidian & William Cha,rles Waring, Oystermouth Kilvrough, Swansea ~iedical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Eastern district, Boundy John Edwin esq. Stont hall, Gowerton R.S.O John Iron Bevan M.B., C.M. Mumbles, Oystermuuth.; Essery Richard Aulbrey esq. Cefn-Bryn,Penmaen,Swansea Northern district, Benjamin JQnes M.D., C.M. Pen Forester Edward Lovell esq. Pen-y-bryn, Sketty, Swansea clawdd; Weste:rn district, T. B. Jones M.B.ReYTholdston Clerk to the Magistrates, Jenkin Junes, 5 Fisher street, Superintendent Registrar, John :Heynon, Hazelwood, Swansea Oystermoutih, Swansea; deputy, F. F. Meager, Vic A quorum meets at Penmaen workhouse once a month at toria chambers, Oxford 8treet, Swansea. I p.m. The following places are included in the petty Registrars of Births & Deaths, Gower Eastern sub sessional division :-Bishopston, Cheriton, Ilston, Kili district, W. T. Clark, Mumbles; Gower Western sub bron, Knelston, Landewy, Llangennith, Llanmadock, d:.strict, Thomas George Gurdon, Llwynybach, Llan Llanrhidian Lower, Nicho11aston, Oxwich, Penmaen, rhidian Pennard, Penrice', Port Eynon, Reynoldston, Rhoscilly, Registrar of ~[arria.ges, R. W. Beor, Temple street; Walterstone deputy, E. H. Plant, Temple street Gower Rural District Council. Workhouse, Penmaen, a stone building, built 1861 for 50 Meets at the Workhouse, generally on alternate tuesdays inmatE;!s; Richard Dunn, ma,ster; S. B. Jones M.B. a,t II a.m. medical officer; :Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn, matron Clerk, John Beynon, Bazelwood, Mumbles Treasurer, Richard John Letcher, Glamvrganshire Bank, School Attendance Committee. Swansea; Meets at the Workhouse, Penmaen, generally on alternate ){edical Officer of Health, H. E. Rawlings, Reynoldston, tuesdays at II a.m. Swansea Sanitary Inspector, Charles Aubrey Lewis, Peny Graig, Clerk, John Beynon, Hazelwood, Oystermouth, Swansea Penclawdd, Swansea Att.endance Officer, Silvanus Bevan, Overoo, Port Eynon Gower trnion. National School (mixed), erected! in 1852, for 40 Board day, alternate tuesdays, at II o'clock, at the children; average attendance, 23; Miss Fannie Cooke, Workhouse, Penmaen. mistress The Union comprises the following parishes :-Bishopston, Omnibu~es to Swansea call here on mono wed. &; sat Bostock Miss, Hillside Vivian The Hon. Aubrey D.L., J.P. Brockie John, farmer, Parc-le-Broes Emery Rev. Geo.B.A.,Mus.Bac.Rectry Parc-Ie-Breos Morris Samnel, shopkeeper,Post office Essery Richd. Aubrey J.P. Cefn Bryn Williams Fredk. Evan, Bryn cottage Parsons William, farmer, Long Oaks Scott Mrs. The Cottage PENMARK is 0, parish and villag.e, 2 miles north-east the Norman Conquest by one of the Umfrevilles. Olive-r from Abeorthaw l!tQtion on the Llantrisant and Aberthaw Henry Jones esq. of Fonmon Castle, who is alslO lord of branch of the Taff Vale railway and 3 north-west from the manor, Halswell Milborne Kemeys-Tynte esq. of Barry station on the Great Western railway, 12 south- Cafn Mably and Mrs. Rayer are the principal landowners. west from Cardiff and 6 south-east from Cowbridge, in the The soil is clay; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops aro Southern division of the couniIY of Glamorgan, Dynas whea4 barley and oats. The area is 3,360 acres of land Powis hundred, St. Nicholas petty sessional division, and 177 of foreshore; rateable value" £4,010; the popu Cardiff union and cQunty court district, rural deanery of tation in 1891 was 503. Llandaff Lower (western division) and archdeaconry and Abel'li;haw is a hamlet on the sea. shore. There are diocese of Llandaff.. The church of St. Mary is a. building lime kilns in thiS! hamlet, the proEerty of the Aberthaw of -stone in the! Gothic style, c01lJSisting- of chancel with Pebble Lime Co. Limited. aisle, nave, t;outh porch and an embattled west-ern tower Letters arrive through Barry at 10.15 a.m. Letter Box, containing 6 bells: there are 150 siltings, of which 115 Abe,rthaw, cleared at 3.30 p.m. are free. The register of baptisms, marriages and burial9 Fonmon, Fontygary, Rhoose, Tredogan, Burton and dates from the, year 1751. The living is a vicarage, Nearstone are other hamletS! in th~ parish: there is a commuted tithe rent-charge £218, average £160, net Congregational chapel at Nearstone and a Baptist chapel yearly mCGme, including 100 acres of glebe £262, with at Abe,rthaw. residence, in the. gift of the Dean and Chapter of Glouces- Parish Clerk, Henry David. W, '8Ild held since 1891 by tbe Rev. Edward Morgan n.A. of Cambridge University. Here is a Welsh Calvini~tic Post Office. John Alexander, sub-postmaster. Letters chapel. The' principal charities are derived from th6 rent through Co:wbridgeo at 9·30 a.m. & dispatched at 3.30 of two co'ttJage!J, 2, acres of land and ftte interest on p.m, Postal orderS! e.re issued here, but not paid. £62 10S. distributed on the Thursday before Easter to The nea.rest money orde1" office is at Barry and tel,e.. poor persons not in receipt of parish relief, by the vicar graph office Aberlhaw railway station . .and churchwardens, who are the trustees. Near the National School, for 80 children; Frederick Duck, school~ church are the ruins of an ancient castle, bnilt soon after master (Letters for names marked thus * are Bowen Mary (Mrs.), farmer *Liscombe l<ewis, Blue Anchor P .H. received through Barry, Cardiff.) Dunscombe John, Ro.se &; Crown F.H Aberthaw Jones OliveI' Hy. J.P. Fonmon castle. Evans John, haulier *Lougher James, farmer, Aberthaw Fonmon Harbottle Thomas, farmer, Fonmon *Mazey William, farmer,Welvord frm Morgan Rev. Edward B.A.TheVioarge *Harry Thomas (Mrs.), Oarpenters' Morgan Edwin, farmer, Penmark place Arms-P.H. Whitehall *Savours David W. farmer, Fontygary COMlIEROIAL. James William & Sons, farmers & *Savours .John Miles, farmer, Rhoose *Aberthaw Pllbble Lime Co. Limited, builders, Fonmon *Sloper John, farmer, Abertbaw Aberlhaw *James John, farmer, Blackton farm Thomas Alex. shoe maker ~exander John, grocer &; postmaster *Jenkins William, farmer, Rhoose *Thomas Alfred, haulier, Aberthaw Alexander William, farmer *Jones Mrs. farmer, Tredogan *Thomas William, farmer, Aberthaw Aubre)" Edward. Six Bells P.H Lester .John, Red Cow P.H Thomas- William, wheelwright PENNARD and PARK MILL. PENNARD is 80 small parish, bounded on the -south by the county of GlamOTganj Swansea hundred, Gower the Bristol Channel, 4 miJ.e9 south-west from Killay union, Swansea. county court district, Penmaen petty itation on the London and North Western railwllly and sessional division, rural -deanery of West GOW8'l', arch I south-west from Swansea, in the Western division of deaconry of Carmarthen and diocese (lJ St. David's. The.