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Rees (a) PowellAge: 591729–1788

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Rees (a) Powell
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Powell
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Birth 1729
 Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Christening 5 December 1729
 St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Source:  Parish Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St. Illtyd
Publication: Transcription published Dec 2005
Citation details: Register p.21
Date of entry in original source: 15 October 2002
Text: Rees son of Wm.Powell
Source:  findmypast.co.uk
Publication: http://www.findmypast.co.uk/
Citation details: Parish Register Image Collection - Llantwit-juxta-Neath
Text: See image below
Baptism Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St.Illtud - Dec 1729
Baptism Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St.Illtud - Dec 1729

Birth of a brother about 1730 (Age 12 months)
 Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

younger brother - William Powell
Death of a father 6 August 1753 (Age 24)
 Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

father - William Powell
Burial of a father 9 August 1753 (Age 24)
 St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

father - William Powell
MarriageElizabeth John - View family
19 January 1757 (Age 28)
 St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Source:  Parish Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St.Illtud - Marriages
Publication: Copy of Entry
Citation details: 1757 Entry No.22
Note: 
Official Copy of original register entry made by GRO 22 Mar 2002
Witnesses: David JOHN and David JENKIN Curate: Timothy GRYFFIES RCD Source Folder Record No.44
Source:  National Library of Wales - Marriage Bonds Data Base
Publication: ISYS:web at NLW website
Citation details: 28 Dec 1756 B. 19/108
Note: POWELL, Rees, bach, yeoman, Llantwit-by-Neath, GLA. 1756, [Found with December] 28. Elizabeth John. B. 19/108. See photocopy in RCD Source folder.
Marriage Register Entry - Rees Powell & Elizabeth John
Marriage Register Entry - Rees Powell & Elizabeth John

Birth of a son
#1
December 1757 (Age 28)
 Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

son - William Powell
Death of a son December 1757 (Age 28)
 

son - William Powell
Occupation
Farmer
 

Christening of a son 3 December 1757 (Age 28)
 St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

son - William Powell
Burial of a son 5 December 1757 (Age 28)
 St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

son - William Powell
Birth of a daughter
#2
February 1759 (Age 30)
 Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

daughter - Mary Powell
Christening of a daughter 3 March 1759 (Age 30)
 St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

daughter - Mary Powell
Death of a daughter September 1760 (Age 31)
 Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

daughter - Mary Powell
Burial of a daughter 21 September 1760 (Age 31)
 St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

daughter - Mary Powell
Christening of a daughter 8 June 1761 (Age 32)
 St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

daughter - Mary Powell
Birth of a daughter
#3
1763 (Age 34)
 

daughter - Elizabeth Powell
Birth of a son
#4
1766 (Age 37)
 Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

son - William Powell
Christening of a son 18 May 1766 (Age 37)
 St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

son - William Powell
Birth of a son
#5
1768 (Age 39)
 Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

son - Rees (b) Powell
Christening of a son 29 September 1768 (Age 39)
 St.Baglan, Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

son - Rees (b) Powell
Birth of a son
#6
July 1771 (Age 42)
 Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

son - Jehoshaphat Powell
Christening of a son 25 July 1771 (Age 42)
 St.Baglan, Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

son - Jehoshaphat Powell
Death of a mother April 1779 (Age 50)
 Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

mother - Jane …
Signature
on the Bond of his mother-in-law Catharine JOHN
1780 (Age 51)
 

Signature of Rees Powell 1780
Signature of Rees Powell 1780

Residence 1787 (Age 58)
 Blaen Baglan, Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

Source:  Research by Allen Blethyn 2003 - 2004
Citation details: e-mail 7 Feb 2003
Text: Note: "Article by Les Evans in Port Talbot Historical Journal No.2. Vol.1.. [1965.] The Williams Family of Blaen Baglan [ only a stone's throw from Ty Newydd Farm.] Just a few of his statements here--. Direct ancestor of the Williams of Blaen Bagla n and Aberpergwm was Rees Lord of Baglan and brother of Leisen D` Avene, Lord of Afan. sons of Morgan Vychan. One George Williams there in 1584. was involved in a case before the Star Chamber in which he accused many local men of attempting to murder him. During this case he himself was accused that some years earlier he had murdered his servant one Henry Powell. But for this had received the Qween`s pardon. Mind this George Williams was high up in standing being constable of Aberavon Castle in 1590. Later two William`s brother`s complained at the Star Chamber in the reign of James 1st. that they were assaulted by one Thomas William Powell at Neath. He then states that a later tenant of Blaen Baglan was Rees Powell [ c. 1787. ] and Joseph Price [ 1841 ].
Source:  Research by Jennie Powell, Radyr, Cardiff
Citation details: Photos taken by Jennie 20 Sep 2008
Source:  Research by Angela Benger
Citation details: Report was obtained from CADW by Angela Benger Oct 2009
Text: Authority Neath Port Talbot Record No 14147

Community Baglan Locality Bwlch Road Grid Ref 276024 192543

Grade II DateListed 08/12/1986 Date Amended 31/01/2000

Name Blaen Baglan Street No, Name Bwlch Road

Location
Approximately 0.8km NE of Baglan church and reached by track to the rear of farmyard buildings at right-angled
bend on Bwlch Road.

History
Blaen Baglan is first mentioned in 1566 when it was occupied by William ap Jenkin, but the present house is based
upon its rebuilding c1600 by his grandson William Williams. This new house had a sub-medieval plan form
comprising a hall with parlour and a porch, and a staircase projection built around the laterally placed hall stack.
A rear wing housing a kitchen was built soon after, as was an additional unit at the lower end of the hall. The
house remained in the Williams family for most of the C17, followed by a period of uncertain ownership before it
was acquired by the Jersey Estate by 1841. During the period of Jersey ownership the fenestration was altered by
introducing more fashionable sash windows. The house became a tenant farm, although a local Baptist minister
lived there for a period. The house is now unoccupied and derelict.

Exterior
A 2-storey house with a long main range and wing behind, forming an L-shaped plan, with porch at the L end, a
lower projection against the L gable end and a single-storey projection set in the angle between the rear of the
main range and the rear wing. The walls are roughcast. The roof is slate, although mostly missing from the rear
slope of the main range and missing from the rear wing, the roof of which has partially collapsed. The main range
has C19 stone end stacks and a ridge stack R of centre, while the rear wing retains a single ridge stack. The front
is 4-window with segmental heads and now boarded up although traces of former sashes and brick dressings can still
be seen. The windows, inserted in the C19, are grouped in pairs, corresponding to the internal division of hall and
parlour. The porch is 2 storeys plus attic. It has a Tudor arched doorway under a hood and is surmounted by a
blank frame probably intended for a coat of arms. The upper storey has an inserted segmental-headed window
with a brick surround. The attic has a blocked flat-headed Tudor window in a moulded surround with hood mould
and was formerly of 2 lights. The R side wall of the porch also has a sash window at ground-floor level.

In the R gable end of the main range is a blocked 2-light mullioned first-floor window with 4-centred heads and a
hood mould, but set at a lower level than the other openings and probably belonging to William ap Jenkin's mid
C16 house. The gable line of this original house can be seen below the present gable which was heightened c1600.
On the R side of this later gable is a small blocked C19 attic window. Behind the main range is a single-storey
lean-to, added in the C19 to create a passage between the kitchen and parlour. In the upper storey is a doorway on
the L side reached by external steps. The rear wing is obscured by vegetation.

To the L of the porch the lower gabled projection is of a single bay with blocked, probably originally sash,
windows and a stone end gable stack. Behind this projection, the kitchen has a C19 dairy lean-to, above which is a
small blocked stair light to the main range.

Interior
Inaccessible at the time of inspection, but described by RCAHM Wales as follows: The original plan form remains
discernible and comprises a hall with parlour in the main range, and kitchen with lean-to C19 dairy in the rear
wing. Many original doorways are blocked and were replaced by new doorways inserted in the C19, at the same
time as partitions were introduced to sub-divide existing rooms and the hall screen was removed. The hall has
cross beams with broad chamfered stops and a fireplace in the rear lateral wall with details altered in the C19. The
parlour fireplace is blocked but retains original jambs. The kitchen has broad chamfered beams similar to the hall.
The upper storey has the same original partitions as the lower storey but was sub-divided into smaller rooms in
the C19. The room above the parlour was adapted as a granary with external steps at the rear of the house. The
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rooms above the hall and kitchen have broad chamfered beams with filleted stops. Attic rooms are open to the
roof, the attic in the rear wing having an external doorway in the gable end. The roof trusses of the main range
and rear wing have curved-foot principals and lap-jointed collars. The purlins are repositioned, indicating the
replacement of the roof and explaining the C19 stacks and the absence of attic windows.


Listed
Listed, notwithstanding its present condition, for its architectural interest as a substantial sub-medieval Glamorgan
house.

Reference
Newman, John, The Buildings of Wales, Glamorgan, 1995, p 143;
RCAHM Wales, An Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan, Vol 4 part 1: The Greater Houses, 1981, pp
209-14.
Note: Blaen Baglan is a Grade ll Listed Building. See details of the Report obtained from CADW by Angela Benger Oct 2009, by expanding Angela's source reference above.
Note: Select the "Album" tab above to see other views of Blaen Baglan land, provided by Angela Benger and Jennie Powell.
Blaen Baglan 2008 - front view
Blaen Baglan 2008 - front view


Blaen Baglan 2008 - rear view
Blaen Baglan 2008 - rear view

Will 20 July 1788 (Age 59)
 Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

Source:  National Library of Wales - Wills & Probate Records
Publication: http://cat.llgc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?skin=profeb&lng=en
Citation details: LL/1788/7 - Rees POWELL 1788 Baglan
Text: In the name of God amen. I Rees Powell of the parish of Baglan in the County of Glamorgan & Diocese of Llandaff, Yeoman, being sick in body but of sound mind memory and understanding do make this my last Will and Testament in the form and manner following Viz. I give devise and bequeath unto my eldest son William Powell and his heirs all that Freehold Messuage and tenement of land with its appurtenances called Tu Maen situate in the parish of Langunwd (sic) in the said County. Also I give devise and bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth jointly with my two sons Rees and Jehoshaphat Powell them Freehold Messuages of land situate in the parish of Aberavon in the said County called Tay 'r tiâmy (?) and Tir Peirisha r Dre (??), the rents and profits issuing from the same to be divided in three equal shares during the natural life of Elizabeth my Wife, and after her decease to the said Rees and Jehoshaphat Powell and their heirs for ever. Also I give devise & bequeath to my said beloved wife jointly with my sons Rees and Jehoshaphat all that Leasehold lands called Vellindre, and its apputenances situate in the parishes of Aberavon and Baglan during the remainder of the lease, the rents and profits issuing from the same to be divided in three equal shares. Also I give devise and bequeath unto my Daughter Mary wife of Coal (sic) the sum of five pounds, and also to my Daughter Elizabeth wife of William Preece the like sum of five pounds to be paid to them by my executors hereafter named within one year after my decease. And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my beloved wife and three sons, William, Rees and Jehoshaphat, to be my joint executors to this my last Will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 20 day of July 1788.

Signed and sealed in the presence of Thos. Jones, Jenkin Thomas and William Jenkins
Note: To see images of original document on NLW website, see: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/89187
Death 21 July 1788 (Age 59)
 Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

Note: Date of death deduced from the fact that he signed his Will on 20 Jul 1788 and was buried on 22 Jul 1788.
Burial 22 July 1788 (1 day after death)
 Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Source:  Parish Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St. Illtyd
Publication: Transcription published Dec 2005
Citation details: Booklet p.263
Globally unique identifier
7A548C2958485A48BAF2BEBE99DF0CE55623
 

Last change 10 December 2013 - 07:38:38
 

by: Ron Davies
Family with parents - View family
father
William Powell

Birth about 1680  Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death 6 August 1753 (Age 73)  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

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mother
Jane …

Death April 1779  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

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Marriage: yes
#1 elder sister
Anne Powell

Birth 1727  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death yes  

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2 years
#2 himself
Rees (a) Powell

Birth 1729  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death 21 July 1788 (Age 59)  Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

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1 year
#3 younger brother
William Powell

Birth about 1730  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death yes  

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Father’s family with Catherine David - View family
father
William Powell

Birth about 1680  Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death 6 August 1753 (Age 73)  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

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19 years
step-mother
Catherine David

Birth 1699  Llangynwyd, Glamorgan, Wales

Death June 1722 (Age 23)  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

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Marriage: about 1717
#1 half-sister
Mary Powell

Birth 1717  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death yes  

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5 years
#2 half-sister
Catherine Powell

Birth about 1722  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death 27 December 1802 (Age 80)  

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Family with Elizabeth John - View family
himself
Rees (a) Powell

Birth 1729  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death 21 July 1788 (Age 59)  Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

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1 year
wife
Elizabeth John

Birth 1730  

Death 1821 (Age 91)  Cwmbrombil, Margam, Glamorgan, Wales

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Marriage: 19 January 1757 — St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales
10 months
#1 son
William Powell

Birth December 1757  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death December 1757  

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14 months
#2 daughter
Mary Powell

Birth February 1759  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death September 1760 (Age 19 months)  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

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2 years
#3 daughter
Mary Powell

Christening 8 June 1761  St.Illtud, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death February 1820  Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

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19 months
#4 daughter
Elizabeth Powell

Birth 1763  

Death May 1843 (Age 80)  Coed Iarll, Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

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3 years
#5 son
William Powell

Birth 1766  Llantwit-juxta-Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Death 11 July 1844 (Age 78)  Eglwys Nynydd, Margam, Glamorgan, Wales

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2 years
#6 son
Rees (b) Powell

Birth 1768  Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

Death 1 January 1837 (Age 69)  Ty Draw, Pyle, Glamorgan, Wales

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4 years
#7 son
Jehoshaphat Powell

Birth July 1771  Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales

Death 3 December 1843 (Age 72)  Llanmihangel Mill, Kenfig, Glamorgan, Wales

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ChristeningParish Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St. Illtyd
Publication: Transcription published Dec 2005
Citation details: Register p.21
Date of entry in original source: 15 October 2002
Text: Rees son of Wm.Powell
Christeningfindmypast.co.uk
Publication: http://www.findmypast.co.uk/
Citation details: Parish Register Image Collection - Llantwit-juxta-Neath
Text: See image below
MarriageParish Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St.Illtud - Marriages
Publication: Copy of Entry
Citation details: 1757 Entry No.22
Note: 
Official Copy of original register entry made by GRO 22 Mar 2002
Witnesses: David JOHN and David JENKIN Curate: Timothy GRYFFIES RCD Source Folder Record No.44
MarriageNational Library of Wales - Marriage Bonds Data Base
Publication: ISYS:web at NLW website
Citation details: 28 Dec 1756 B. 19/108
Note: POWELL, Rees, bach, yeoman, Llantwit-by-Neath, GLA. 1756, [Found with December] 28. Elizabeth John. B. 19/108. See photocopy in RCD Source folder.
MarriageParish Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St.Illtud - Marriages
Publication: Copy of Entry
Citation details: 1757 Entry No.22
Note: 
Official Copy of original register entry made by GRO 22 Mar 2002
Witnesses: David JOHN and David JENKIN Curate: Timothy GRYFFIES RCD Source Folder Record No.44
MarriageNational Library of Wales - Marriage Bonds Data Base
Publication: ISYS:web at NLW website
Citation details: 28 Dec 1756 B. 19/108
Note: POWELL, Rees, bach, yeoman, Llantwit-by-Neath, GLA. 1756, [Found with December] 28. Elizabeth John. B. 19/108. See photocopy in RCD Source folder.
ResidenceResearch by Allen Blethyn 2003 - 2004
Citation details: e-mail 7 Feb 2003
Text: Note: "Article by Les Evans in Port Talbot Historical Journal No.2. Vol.1.. [1965.] The Williams Family of Blaen Baglan [ only a stone's throw from Ty Newydd Farm.] Just a few of his statements here--. Direct ancestor of the Williams of Blaen Bagla n and Aberpergwm was Rees Lord of Baglan and brother of Leisen D` Avene, Lord of Afan. sons of Morgan Vychan. One George Williams there in 1584. was involved in a case before the Star Chamber in which he accused many local men of attempting to murder him. During this case he himself was accused that some years earlier he had murdered his servant one Henry Powell. But for this had received the Qween`s pardon. Mind this George Williams was high up in standing being constable of Aberavon Castle in 1590. Later two William`s brother`s complained at the Star Chamber in the reign of James 1st. that they were assaulted by one Thomas William Powell at Neath. He then states that a later tenant of Blaen Baglan was Rees Powell [ c. 1787. ] and Joseph Price [ 1841 ].
ResidenceResearch by Jennie Powell, Radyr, Cardiff
Citation details: Photos taken by Jennie 20 Sep 2008
ResidenceResearch by Angela Benger
Citation details: Report was obtained from CADW by Angela Benger Oct 2009
Text: Authority Neath Port Talbot Record No 14147

Community Baglan Locality Bwlch Road Grid Ref 276024 192543

Grade II DateListed 08/12/1986 Date Amended 31/01/2000

Name Blaen Baglan Street No, Name Bwlch Road

Location
Approximately 0.8km NE of Baglan church and reached by track to the rear of farmyard buildings at right-angled
bend on Bwlch Road.

History
Blaen Baglan is first mentioned in 1566 when it was occupied by William ap Jenkin, but the present house is based
upon its rebuilding c1600 by his grandson William Williams. This new house had a sub-medieval plan form
comprising a hall with parlour and a porch, and a staircase projection built around the laterally placed hall stack.
A rear wing housing a kitchen was built soon after, as was an additional unit at the lower end of the hall. The
house remained in the Williams family for most of the C17, followed by a period of uncertain ownership before it
was acquired by the Jersey Estate by 1841. During the period of Jersey ownership the fenestration was altered by
introducing more fashionable sash windows. The house became a tenant farm, although a local Baptist minister
lived there for a period. The house is now unoccupied and derelict.

Exterior
A 2-storey house with a long main range and wing behind, forming an L-shaped plan, with porch at the L end, a
lower projection against the L gable end and a single-storey projection set in the angle between the rear of the
main range and the rear wing. The walls are roughcast. The roof is slate, although mostly missing from the rear
slope of the main range and missing from the rear wing, the roof of which has partially collapsed. The main range
has C19 stone end stacks and a ridge stack R of centre, while the rear wing retains a single ridge stack. The front
is 4-window with segmental heads and now boarded up although traces of former sashes and brick dressings can still
be seen. The windows, inserted in the C19, are grouped in pairs, corresponding to the internal division of hall and
parlour. The porch is 2 storeys plus attic. It has a Tudor arched doorway under a hood and is surmounted by a
blank frame probably intended for a coat of arms. The upper storey has an inserted segmental-headed window
with a brick surround. The attic has a blocked flat-headed Tudor window in a moulded surround with hood mould
and was formerly of 2 lights. The R side wall of the porch also has a sash window at ground-floor level.

In the R gable end of the main range is a blocked 2-light mullioned first-floor window with 4-centred heads and a
hood mould, but set at a lower level than the other openings and probably belonging to William ap Jenkin's mid
C16 house. The gable line of this original house can be seen below the present gable which was heightened c1600.
On the R side of this later gable is a small blocked C19 attic window. Behind the main range is a single-storey
lean-to, added in the C19 to create a passage between the kitchen and parlour. In the upper storey is a doorway on
the L side reached by external steps. The rear wing is obscured by vegetation.

To the L of the porch the lower gabled projection is of a single bay with blocked, probably originally sash,
windows and a stone end gable stack. Behind this projection, the kitchen has a C19 dairy lean-to, above which is a
small blocked stair light to the main range.

Interior
Inaccessible at the time of inspection, but described by RCAHM Wales as follows: The original plan form remains
discernible and comprises a hall with parlour in the main range, and kitchen with lean-to C19 dairy in the rear
wing. Many original doorways are blocked and were replaced by new doorways inserted in the C19, at the same
time as partitions were introduced to sub-divide existing rooms and the hall screen was removed. The hall has
cross beams with broad chamfered stops and a fireplace in the rear lateral wall with details altered in the C19. The
parlour fireplace is blocked but retains original jambs. The kitchen has broad chamfered beams similar to the hall.
The upper storey has the same original partitions as the lower storey but was sub-divided into smaller rooms in
the C19. The room above the parlour was adapted as a granary with external steps at the rear of the house. The
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rooms above the hall and kitchen have broad chamfered beams with filleted stops. Attic rooms are open to the
roof, the attic in the rear wing having an external doorway in the gable end. The roof trusses of the main range
and rear wing have curved-foot principals and lap-jointed collars. The purlins are repositioned, indicating the
replacement of the roof and explaining the C19 stacks and the absence of attic windows.


Listed
Listed, notwithstanding its present condition, for its architectural interest as a substantial sub-medieval Glamorgan
house.

Reference
Newman, John, The Buildings of Wales, Glamorgan, 1995, p 143;
RCAHM Wales, An Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan, Vol 4 part 1: The Greater Houses, 1981, pp
209-14.
WillNational Library of Wales - Wills & Probate Records
Publication: http://cat.llgc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?skin=profeb&lng=en
Citation details: LL/1788/7 - Rees POWELL 1788 Baglan
Text: In the name of God amen. I Rees Powell of the parish of Baglan in the County of Glamorgan & Diocese of Llandaff, Yeoman, being sick in body but of sound mind memory and understanding do make this my last Will and Testament in the form and manner following Viz. I give devise and bequeath unto my eldest son William Powell and his heirs all that Freehold Messuage and tenement of land with its appurtenances called Tu Maen situate in the parish of Langunwd (sic) in the said County. Also I give devise and bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth jointly with my two sons Rees and Jehoshaphat Powell them Freehold Messuages of land situate in the parish of Aberavon in the said County called Tay 'r tiâmy (?) and Tir Peirisha r Dre (??), the rents and profits issuing from the same to be divided in three equal shares during the natural life of Elizabeth my Wife, and after her decease to the said Rees and Jehoshaphat Powell and their heirs for ever. Also I give devise & bequeath to my said beloved wife jointly with my sons Rees and Jehoshaphat all that Leasehold lands called Vellindre, and its apputenances situate in the parishes of Aberavon and Baglan during the remainder of the lease, the rents and profits issuing from the same to be divided in three equal shares. Also I give devise and bequeath unto my Daughter Mary wife of Coal (sic) the sum of five pounds, and also to my Daughter Elizabeth wife of William Preece the like sum of five pounds to be paid to them by my executors hereafter named within one year after my decease. And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my beloved wife and three sons, William, Rees and Jehoshaphat, to be my joint executors to this my last Will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 20 day of July 1788.

Signed and sealed in the presence of Thos. Jones, Jenkin Thomas and William Jenkins
BurialParish Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St. Illtyd
Publication: Transcription published Dec 2005
Citation details: Booklet p.263

 
Note
Rees was a yeoman ( ref NLW marriage bond entry 1756 B.19/108), in the hamlet of Llantwit Isha, where in 1763 he appears in the Militia Ballot . He and wife Elizabeth moved from Llantwit to Baglan sometime before 1768. He appears in the Baglan parish registers as churchwarden, in 1770, and under the heading of 'Chief Inhabitants' in June 1771. An article by Les Evans in Port Talbot Historical Journal No.2. Vol.1.. [1965] states that "... a later tenant of Blaen Baglan was Rees Powell [ c. 1787 ]"

Marriage
Official Copy of original register entry made by GRO 22 Mar 2002 Witnesses: David JOHN and David JENKIN Curate: Timothy GRYFFIES RCD Source Folder Record No.44

Marriage
POWELL, Rees, bach, yeoman, Llantwit-by-Neath, GLA. 1756, [Found with December] 28. Elizabeth John. B. 19/108. See photocopy in RCD Source folder.

Marriage
Official Copy of original register entry made by GRO 22 Mar 2002 Witnesses: David JOHN and David JENKIN Curate: Timothy GRYFFIES RCD Source Folder Record No.44

Marriage
POWELL, Rees, bach, yeoman, Llantwit-by-Neath, GLA. 1756, [Found with December] 28. Elizabeth John. B. 19/108. See photocopy in RCD Source folder.

Marriage
Official Copy of original register entry made by GRO 22 Mar 2002 Witnesses: David JOHN and David JENKIN Curate: Timothy GRYFFIES RCD Source Folder Record No.44

Marriage
POWELL, Rees, bach, yeoman, Llantwit-by-Neath, GLA. 1756, [Found with December] 28. Elizabeth John. B. 19/108. See photocopy in RCD Source folder.

Residence
Blaen Baglan is a Grade ll Listed Building. See details of the Report obtained from CADW by Angela Benger Oct 2009, by expanding Angela's source reference above.

Residence
Select the "Album" tab above to see other views of Blaen Baglan land, provided by Angela Benger and Jennie Powell.

Will
To see images of original document on NLW website, see: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/89187

Death
Date of death deduced from the fact that he signed his Will on 20 Jul 1788 and was buried on 22 Jul 1788.


Photos
Blaen Baglan 2008 - front view
Blaen Baglan 2008 - front view
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  • Research by Jennie Powell, Radyr, Cardiff
  • Blaen Baglan 2008 - rear view
    Blaen Baglan 2008 - rear view
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  • Research by Jennie Powell, Radyr, Cardiff
  • Blaen Baglan Land - 2008
    Blaen Baglan Land - 2008
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  • Research by Jennie Powell, Radyr, Cardiff
  • View south from Blaen Baglan towards Port Talbot - 2008
    View south from Blaen Baglan towards Port Talbot - 2008
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  • Research by Jennie Powell, Radyr, Cardiff
  • Documents
    Marriage Register Entry - Rees Powell & Elizabeth John
    Marriage Register Entry - Rees Powell & Elizabeth John
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    Baptism Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St.Illtud - Dec 1729
    Baptism Register - Llantwit-juxta-Neath St.Illtud - Dec 1729
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    Other
    Signature of Rees Powell 1780
    Signature of Rees Powell 1780
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