Cogan or Cogan Pill, Glamorgan
Historical Description
Cogan or Cogan-Pill, a parish in Glamorgan, near the coast, 1 mile SW of Penarth, and 4½ miles SSW of Cardiff. It has a station on the Barry Dock railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Penarth. Acreage, 616; population, 1627. An old house here was the seat of the Herberts of Cogan. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Llandough with Leckwith, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church was rebuilt in 1893. There is a United Free Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Cardiff | 1837 - 1902 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the National Library of Wales and the Welsh County Archivists Group, have the following parish records online for Cogan:
Parish | Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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Cogan | 1786-1857 | 1786-1808 | 1785-1812 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Cogan or Cogan Pill from 1837 to 1902 you should search for the Cardiff Registration District.
Maps
Online maps of Cogan or Cogan Pill are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online: