> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andy Philpin" <andrewphilpin@hotmail.co.uk> > To: <dyfed@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 6:24 PM > Subject: [Dyfed] Carms: Carmarthen Academy for Preacher training > Does anybody know if the Carmarthen Academy (College) for Preacher > training is still in existence or where any records from it would be > housed. I would appreciate any help you can give. From: "Gareth" <tirbach@clara.co.uk> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Carms: Carmarthen Academy for Preacher training > May not have the specific answer to your question but the Carmarthen entry > on this Genuki page may be of interest Andy > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/TheoColl.html The key points being: * The history of the original academy is long and convoluted, * the College closed in 1963 * "Oriel Coleg Presbyteraidd Caerfyrddin, 1796-1899" by E Pan Jones, Merthyr Tydfil, 1909 ... consists of a chronological collection of biographies of students, many enlivened with photographs of the individuals concerned, and has an alphabetical index ... It has a smattering of biographies in English alongside those in Welsh." * The Presbyterian College, was restricted to theology from 1895. There are records for the period 1820-1951 at National Library of Wales. * Attended by students from a variety of different nonconformist denominations * Not to be confused with Trinity College/Trinity University College, Carmarthen. Photograph: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1440725 AJ