I had to smile at the implication that the Calvinistic Methodists pulled a fast one in the Census attendance figures 'game' in this AGY parish ! Suggests there was some sort of unwritten agreement not to publicise the census - but, I'm sure it was a quite innocent action on their part:-) * Llangeinwen Parish Church (Diocese of Bangor) Repaired and enlarged in 1839 Attendance - morning 60, afternoon 31 (average - morning 120/130, afternoon 40) "The number of persons who attended the Services in the Church on the 30th March 1851 was about one half the usual congregation and this is to be accounted for in this way. Many of the Parishioners are in the habit of attending both the Meeting houses and Church, but on this occasion public notice of the Census was given in the Chapels of the Calvinistic Methodists (who are by far the most numerous body of dissenters in this neighbourhood" W Williams, Rector Gareth Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Help Page http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html Cwmgors/Waun http://www.tytwp.plus.com/Waun/Waun.html