This service covers the burial registers for the parishes we have transcribed for the National Burial Index (NBI), and the increasing number of parishes where we are transcribing the burial registers for inclusion in the next Edition of the NBI. Details of the parishes can be found (marked "GWNT") on the NBI Coverage page for Monmouthshire on the FFHS website.

The fee for this service is £2 per surname [including variations specified by the enquirer] per parish, or £5 for a blanket search of all parishes in the list below.

If you would like a search to be made, please write to the Gwent FHS Secretary:

Mrs Nicola Thomas
11 Rosser Street, Waunfelin,
PONTYPOOL, Gwent NP4 6EA
[email protected]

If you believe you know the parish in which your ancestor may have been buried, look at the indexes and transcriptions of Church and Chapel Registers that we sell on microfiche (or, in some cases, on CD as well), to see if we may have the details.
 

The Society have created a Marriage Index for the years 1813 to 1837 for most of the parishes of the old county of Monmouthshire. It is held alphabetically in two parts, groom and bride, and many members have already traced ancestors by using this index, even though it has only recently been completed.

The fee for this service is £1.00 each for the first five marriages and 50 pence per marriage thereafter.

For details, please write to:
Gwent FHS Marriage Index,
C/O 41 Penalt,
Llanelly Hill,
Abergavenny NP7 0RA.

Alternatively, copies of the two parts of the Index can be purchased on microfiche from our County Sales Officer.
 

We have researched all of the known churchyards and chapel graveyards (not Local Authority cemeteries) within the old county of Monmouthshire, as well as a few which are situated just over the county border, although some have been recorded only up to the early 1900s.

Details of the plots and of the monumental inscriptions have been transcribed and indexed, and copies of these on microfiche can be ordered from our County Sales Officer.

In addition, we are now able to offer an M.I. enquiry service, using a computer index which has been compiled by amalgamating all the indexes from the files of the graveyards which have been recorded.

These are shown on this web site on the Monumental Inscriptions page giving the List of Fiche in Alpha Order (then click on the 'Services' button on the top of that page to return here). But please remember, as mentioned above and as you will see from the List, these exclude all public cemeteries and, in the case of some of the graveyards, also exclude details later than the nineteenth century.

In addition, we are able to offer an M.I. Index enquiry service. The Index has been compiled by amalgamating all the indexes from the files of the graveyards which have been recorded. The index contains names and references, but NOT the actual inscriptions.

The Indexes of COMMON NAMES are available on microfiche obtainable from our Sales Officer. However, you may not find them very helpful since many entries also have the same forenames, and you may not be able to judge whether a person is likely to be in your family unless you have significant additional information such as ages and locations. Our Common Name Fiche include the names:

• Bevan
• Davies
• Edmunds
• Edwards
• Evans
• Griffiths
• Harris (+Harrison &  Harry)
• Howells
• James (+Jameson &Jamie)
• Jenkins (+Jennings)
• Jones
• Lewis (+Lewison)
• Matthews (+ Mathias)
• Meredith
• Morgan
• Morris
• Phillips
• Pritchard
• Preece  (+Price)
• Prosser
• Rees  (+Rhys & Rice)
• Richards
• Roberts (+Robart)
• Smith (+Smyth & Smythies)
• Thomas
• Walters(+Waters)
• Watkins
• Williams.   

Our computer index of persons with LESS COMMON NAMES can be searched in order to supply researchers with a printed list, thus:

If you would like a printed list (as above) of all the Index entries for any FIVE UNCOMMON SURNAMES, of persons buried in any churchyard or chapel graveyard, anywhere in old Monmouthshire, write to: Gwent FHS MI Index, 51 Newport Road, New Inn, Pontypool, Gwent, NP4 0NU with details of the surnames you are seeking, and enclosing a cheque payable to "Gwent FHS." for the appropriate fee (£1 for members, quoting their Membership Numbers, £2 for non members).

Please do not send additional information, because we are only able to provide you with the names and graveyards - You will have to decide which, if any, of the entries are appropriate

We regret that we are not able to send the full inscriptions. After receiving the index list, if you wish to see the full inscription of any entry you can either:

• Visit the graveyard, although some of the inscriptions were recorded some years ago and may not now be readable, and some stones have been removed.
• Visit the Gwent County Record Office, Cwmbran, where copies of all our Monumental Inscriptions are freely accessible (although that Office is closing at the end of July 2011 and will re-open at Ebbw Vale in the Autumn).
•  Buy a copy of the fiche which includes the graveyard of interest from the County Sales Officer as mentioned above.

All microfiche produced by the Society and its branches are sold at the standard price of £1 (sterling) per fiche, plus a charge to cover the costs of postage and packing (please refer to the separate page listing these costs)

We regret that we cannot accept overseas currencies in any form.
Please see our separate page for Payments from outside the UK
for currency equivalents and the methods you can use.