Tithes:

Tithes were a type of land tax originally valued at 1/10th of the value of the farm’s annual production. They were originally paid in kind i.e. 1/10th of the produce produced but later after  1836  paid by the inhabitants of a parish to the church.

Llys Nini Tithes Record 1883

Owner Jones Morgan Esq ( Morgan Jones)

Occupier William Walter;

Statute measure 104  A , 2 R, 36 P  (104 acres, 2 rods and 3 perches)

Annual tithes to the Church £6 3/6  

 

 

Llys-Nini Field-names from the Tithe Map and Schedules.  By  Deric John

 

Field                  Field  name                                      Translation / explanation

Number

3294                      Waun faur                            Waun Fawr (‘large meadow’)

3295                    Waun dan cae garru              Waun dan cae garw (cae garw – ‘rough field’)

3296                   Cae Bach                                         (‘small field’)

3297                 

3298

3299                       Wood

3300               Cae Franck/Tranch                        Cae Tranch ( woodland path)

3301              Waun dan ty                               (‘meadow below the house’)

3302              Bryn Uhon                                   Bryn Ychen? (‘ox hill’ )

3304          Cae Uchlawr Ty                            Cae Uwchlaw’r Ty (field above the house)

3308          House Gardens

3305          Cae cafen Morfudd                        Cae cefen morfeidd  ( ‘wetlands, marshes’.)

3306

3307

3309

  Roads and Waste

3310

3311                 Waun fach                                           (‘small meadow’)

3312                    Wood

3313              Cae Newydd                                     (‘new field’)

3314             Cae Errw Isha                                        Cae Erw Isaf (‘bottom acre field’)

3315

3316               Dan y coed                                            (‘under the wood’)

3317

3318            Waun Finoni                        Waun Ffinoni  (ffinioni – ‘to abhor, to loathe’.)

3320             Cae Cabin                            (‘cabin field’)

3321              Wood

3322            Waun adurwen                              Waun adurwen (adw’r ŵen for adwy’r ywen)

3324

3325

3326

3181            Cae Main hir                                (‘long slender field’)

 

 

NOTES

 

3294     Written Waun faur for Waun fawr  ‘large meadow’.

 

3295      Written Waun dan Cae garru for Cae garw ‘rough field’.

 

3296       Cae Bach ‘small field’.

 

3300     Looks like Cae Franch but I believe the recorder has confused his F and T. Tranch/Transh is a bon fide field-name element for a path cut through the woods. Note that field 3299 is ‘Woods’ and is part of field 3300.

 

3301             Waun dan ty is ‘meadow below (the) house’

 

3303    Bryn Uhon could be a scribal error for Bryn Ychen, - ‘ox hill’.

 

3304    Cae Uchlawr ty is Cae Uwchlaw’r tŷ – ‘field above the house’

 

3305            Cae cafen Morfudd is almost certainly Cae cefn morfeidd – ‘field behind the wetlands, marshes’. It is unlikely to be the pers. name Morfudd (as written) for the meaning of  ‘Morfudd’s back field’ is ungainly.

 

3311    Waun fach is ‘small meadow.’

 

3313    Cae Newydd is ‘new field’.

 

3314    Cae Errw Isha is Cae Erw Isaf. Isha is local dialect for Isaf. ‘bottom acre field’.

 

3316    Dan y coed is ‘under the wood’.

 

3318    Although it appears as Waun Fenoni if one compares the second letter of  Fenoni with the second letter of  eithin, field 3593 Coed Cae Eithin (Gelly Woren Fawr) one can observe that in both cases, the letter i has not been dotted and appears as a letter ‘e’. That shows Waun Fenoni should read Waun Finoni. The recorder often uses a single ‘f’ where he should use a double ‘f’ e.g. Forest for Fforest. The second element is local dialect ffinoni for  ffinioni – ‘to abhor, to loathe’ and is descriptive of a piece of land that is very difficult to work.

 

3320    Cae Cabin is ‘Cabin field.’

 

3322    Waun adurwen is written as the recorder would have heard the sound of the field-name. Note that he sometimes uses the letter ‘u’ for a ‘w’ (e.g. garru for garw). Adur would be adwr and this corresponds to the local dialect for adwy’r ( ‘gap in the hedge of the’). That leaves wen which I believe should be written as ŵen which corresponds to the local dialect for ywen – ‘yew-tree’. Waun adurwen is almost certainly Waun adwy’r ywen – ‘yew-tree hedge gap’ i.e a gap in the hedge near the yew-tree.

1. Cae Main hir is ‘long slender field’ as can be verified from the Tithe Map.

 

with thanks to Deric John. March 2009.

 

 

Llangyfelach Tithes Collection 1801

 

"LLAN GEFELACH, in the Cwmwd of Derfedd, Cantref of Ffiniog (now called the Hundred of Llan Gefelach), Co. of GLAMORGAN, South Wales: a V., valued in the King's Books at £9..14..9 1/2:  Patron, The Bishop of St. David's: Church ded. to St. Cyfelach.  The Resident Population of this Parish, in 1801, (containing the Hamlets of Blaenegel, Cae Gerwyn, Clâs Higher, Clâs Lower, Mawr Higher, Mawr Lower, Pen Derw Higher, Pen Derw Lower, Rhwng dwy Clydach Higher, and Rhwng dwy Clydach Lower) was 4944.  The Money raised by the Parish Rates, in 1803, was £982.19.0.
It is 5m. N. b. W. from Swansea.  The Impropriation of this Benefice is in The Lord Bishop of St. David's, as Dean of the College of Brecknock; he is also Lord of the Manor, and holds two Courts here annually.  The Vicarage is endowed with the small Tythes.  This is a very extensive Parish, containing nearly 10,000 acres of Land.  It is rather a singular circumstance, that the present Curate is both Curate and Clerk of the Parish.  As the Salary of the Clerk amounts to about £100. per annum, and the nomination being with the Vicar, the Father of the present Curate, he nominated his Son (The Rev. William Davies), who afterwards became Curate.  He appoints a person to perform the common offices of a Clerk, for which he receives the fees; but the Curate receives the bulk of the Salary, which arises from Easter Offerings." (From: A Topographical Dictionary of The Dominion of Wales by Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1811)

 

1884 Conveyance document between David Jones and John Glasbrook for part of Llysnini Farm and the minerals lying under the remainder of the land. This clearly shows the filed boundaries and their acerage as well as their use.