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Barry, Glamorgan One Place Study

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Barry, Glamorgan One Place Study

This profile is part of the Barry, Glamorgan One Place Study.
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Name

Barry, also known as Y Barri.

Geography

Continent: Europe
Sovereign State: United Kingdom
Country: Wales
County: Glamorgan
GPS Coordinates: 51.405, -3.27
Elevation: 29.0 m or 95.1 feet

History

Points:

Different areas in 1841.

During the 1880;

In 1913, Barry was considered the largest coal port in the world.

Barry Islands ws an islands and had a man made causeway built to bridge the gap.

Bultins

Gavin & Stacey

Gavin and Stacey is a British sitcom written by James Corden and Ruth Jones.

The story revolves around 3 families, one from Billericay, Essex and one from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

Gavin lives with parents, Pam and Mick in Essex. He spends most of his time with his best time, Smityh Stacey lives with her widowed mother, Gwen in Barry. Her uncle, Bryn, lives across the road from her visits regularly aswell as her best friend Nessa.

The show follows their relationship from their first meeting, meeting each other's families, getting engaged, marrying, looking for a property and then trying for children.

The series is predominately filmed in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

Three series has been released starting in 2007 and 2 christmas special one in 2008 and another in 2019. A third christmas special due in 2024 following from the cliff hanger from 2019.

Main Cast:

Population

1841 (Taken from Census)
-Barry: 104 Full Stats are here
-Cadoxton Juxta Barry: 242
-Highlight/Merthyr Dovan: 149
-Porthkerry: 120

The majority of the work was agricultural labour

1851 (Taken from Census)
-Barry: 74 -Cadoxton Juxta Barry: -Merthyr Dovan: -Highlight/Porthkerry:

1861 (Taken from Census)
-Barry: 87 -Cadoxton Juxta Barry: -Merthyr Dovan: -Highlight/Porthkerry:

1871 (Taken from Census)
-Barry: -Cadoxton Juxta Barry: -Merthyr Dovan: -Highlight/Porthkerry:


1881 (Taken from Census)
-Barry:85 -Cadoxton Juxta Barry: -Merthyr Dovan: -Highlight/Porthkerry

1891 -


Currently - 51,502.



Churchs

Schools

Primary Schools
  • Holton Road
  • Cadoxton
  • Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Morgannwg
  • High Street
  • Ysgol Gymrarg Sant Baruc
  • Romilly
  • Barry Island
  • Jenner Park
  • Ysgol Gwaun Y Nant
  • Colcot Primary School
  • Oakfield School
  • St Helens Roman Catholic School
  • Gladstone
  • Palmerstone
  • Ysgol Sant Curig
  • All Saints
Secondary/High Schools
  • Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School / Pencoedtre High School
  • Barry Boys Comprehensive School / Whitmore High School
  • Saint Richard Gwyn
  • Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Morgannwg

Cemetery

Merthyr Dyfan Cemetary

  • 17th Sept 1889 - Formal opening of the new cemetery.
  • 24th Oct 1889 - First burial took place when William Marram, 18 year old sailor
  • 1891 - Neighbouring land was purchased after population grew
  • 1893 - Contract to Mr F Small of Barry to build the Cemetery Chapel - open after 9 months
  • 1893 - First Muslim buried - Hawan Khaus
  • 11th Nov 2005 - Chapel officially reopened in November by then Mayor Theodore Stenstorm.
  • 1914 - 1918 - World war 1
  • 1939-1945 - World war 2
  • 2010 - Phase 1 of the extension with phases 2 and three continuing in 2014</br>
  • 2016 - Green Flag awarded
  • 2019 - Race riots - 100 years - Frederick Longman, Jose Matinez, and Inspector Thomas buried.
  • 4th May 2020 - reopened from covid

My work in progress on graves in Barry Merthyr Cemetery is Here

People

As Barry has over 50,000 people, I have decided to look street by street. I have started looking at Castleland Street, as the street I grew up on.

My freespace for researching Castleland Street.

Also here is an interesting finds of people living in Barry HERE

Memorial

Barry Memorial Hall

The main memorial is the Barry Memorial Hall. During the 1920's the people of Barry wanted to build a memorial for all the Barry people who died during the first world war. It was agreed for a hall and cenotaph would be fitting. The people of Barry were behind this idea wholeheartedly and each person donated a penny. The descendants of David Davies (David Davies who founded the docks) also generously donated. The cost of the hall was £26,000 - which in today's money is close to £4m.

The hall and Cenotaph were opened in 1932 and the theatre and hall were completed and opened in November 1933.

Picture of outside of Barry Memo

There are XXX listed on the Memo finding an additional XXX linked to Barry but their name does not appear on the list.

Here is are the list of names:

Notables

Notable Born Died Claim to Fame Status Photo
Grace Williams 1906 1977 Composer Unconnected
Gareth Jones 1905 1935 Journalist Unconnected
Gwynfor Richard Evans 1912 2005 Polictian, Lawyer and author Unconnected
Robert Tear 1939 2011 Tenor Singer, teacher and conductor
Julia Gillard 1961 Living 27th Prime Minister of Australia Connected
Derek Brockway (Wikipedia) 1967 Living Meterologist
Rhodri Williams (Wikipedia) 1968 Living Sports Journalist
Bryn Merrick 1958 2015 Bassist
Derek Tapscott 1932 2008 Footballer
Gerran Howell (Wikipedia) 1991 Living Actor
Elfyn John Richards 1914 1995 Aeronautical engineer and asoustical engineer
John Habakkuk 1915 2002 Economic historian
Abdulrahim Abby Farah 1919 2018 Somali diplomat & Politician
Irving Davies 1926 2002 Dancer and Choreographer
Barnett Janner 1892 1982 Politician
Damian Green (Wikipedia) 1956 Living Politician
Alan Evans (Wikipedia) 1952 Living Neuroscientist
Lee Selby (Wikipedia) 1987 Living Professional boxing world champion
Andrew Selby (Wikipeida) 1988 Living Professional boxer
Margaret Lindsay Williams 1888 1960 Welsh artist Unconnected
Annes Elwy (Wikipeida) 1992 Living Actress
Barnett Janner 1892 1982 British Politician

Sources


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry,_Vale_of_Glamorgan





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Stephanie, I'm confused why the entry in your table for Margaret Lindsay Williams shows "unconnected". The profile I created links to profiles for her parents and sister.
Hello, last time I checked she was not connected to the main tree.  :)

Steph

posted by Stephanie Hill
Perfectly understandable! I was working on it for quite a while
Amazing work on the profile - its soo detailed. :)
posted by Stephanie Hill