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Kyloe
29-07-2009, 1:46 PM
I am looking for BDM records for Davis's 1800-1850. Apparently they belonged to a non conformist church in the Myddfai/Mothvey area. Would these be kept in Lllandovery or Carmathen or elsewhere? They emigrated to Melbourne, Australia around 1860.

Peter Goodey
29-07-2009, 2:09 PM
Records for periods before about 1837 are at the National Archives.

See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searchthearchives/?source=searcharchives and scroll down to "Non parochial records".

You shouldn't need records for later than 1837. Non-conformists were strong supporters of civil registration.

By law marriages in the 1800-1837 period would have to be in the established church. I assume they weren't Quakers otherwise you would have said.